Service Hours Blog #1

Yesterday, Jessica Fauteux and I went canvassing for Obama and like she said in her blog, it was raining like crazy. Our first shift was three hours (10 am-1pm) and we drove around to all of these different streets just knocking on doors and asking our questions. Our second shift was two and a half hours (3:30 pm- 6 pm). It was pretty bad because I was already sick, it was cold, and we ended up soaking wet. The experience overall wasn't anything new to us, it was sort of like a tag day except we were polling. Some parts of it were pretty funny. There was one particular house that we went to where no one was home but when we were sticking a pamphlet in the door, a cat jumped up in the window and scared the @#$% out of us. If it wasn't for the glass, that cat would've definitely attacked us. There were only maybe two people who were rude and didn't want anything to do with us, despite of the fact that we were in the rain for six hours. But overall, we had a lot of people voting for Obama and a handful of people voting for McCain. Pictures will be posted as soon as I can get them on my computer.