Posts Tagged ‘2012 election’  Election Wednesday  November 8th,
2012 No comments  The last time I was at home in America on the
night of a presidential election was—believe it or not—1996. In
2000 I was in America but in a hospital (though thanks to some
hanging chads I was out long before the results were final). In
2004 I was an exchange student in Germany, and four years later
in 2008 I was working in Germany as an English trainer. And on
the night of the 2012 presidential election, it was daytime in
Japan, and I was working at school the whole time.  Polls
started closing right when first period began, so I didn’t know
any results until the first break between periods. I was playing
Jeopardy with a third-grade class while the first states were
being called. During second and third period I was just
finishing up interview tests for second-graders, so when that
was done I could head back to the teacher’s room and follow the
results for a little while. Fourth period was luckily my last
class of the day, anot