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Friday could not have gotten any better.  I volunteered to help register voters, met my work placement manager at the Denver headquarters for the Ohio Democratic Party, received personalized staff credentials, and was briefed on my position, that will be an opportunity of a lifetime.

After much discussion and deliberation from the ONU delegation over the past few days in our group meetings, it was so incredibly exciting for us to have been awake last night for the announcement of Obama's VP!  At 1:02 am I received a text from a wonderful guy from back home announcing that Biden was the pick.  Shortly after the ONU Girls apartment surrounded my computer as we read reports from CNN and The Washington Post. 

I have been in Denver just over 24 hours and already have experienced so much!  My flight from Akron to Denver went smoothly as I traveled with three other ONU students on the giant airbus to the Mile High City.  Arriving at Regis University, a Jesuit college just 20 minutes outside downtown Denver, ONU students attended an informational orientation session with over 400 other students and faculty from around the country.  There are 10 students from ONU and one student from John Carroll University that represent the state of Ohio here at the TWC Democratic Convention program.