Two nights ago, a group of girls and myself went to see President and Mrs. Obama on the Oval! While we were standing in a huge long line, a woman approached us and handed us green tickets. We had no idea what a "green ticket" meant, but we were told to go to the front of the line. We walked straight through security and were lead to a special VIP section right in front of the stage! We were less than 100 feet from the podium. The event turned out to be a lot longer than we expected, but it was amazing to see President Obama and Michelle right in the middle of our campus. They yelled "OH" into the crowd and got a very warm "IO" welcome back. John Legend performed three of his most popular songs with a grand piano on stage. It was a night I will never forget, that's for sure!
When we were leaving the event, shortly after President Obama had begun speaking, we walked past people standing at the very back of the crowd. We passed our green tickets along to them and they too got to go straight to the VIP section of the audience and hear the rest of President Obama's speech. It really made them happy to have our tickets, and my friend Sam said "We just paid it forward!" So I thought I would share it on my blog :)
Happy Homecoming Week!
Chelsea
love that you wrote about this! it was so awesome that we got those tickets, made the experience sooo much better! hope your having a great homecomming week so far :)
ReplyDeletethat's realy cool that you guys had such a great experience and even cooler that you gave a stranger the opportunity to have the same great experience
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