Past 2 weeks of Gov :)

The past two weeks of government has been fun/crazy/excited/difficult!!  I have learned so much about a lot of things.  The coolest thing I have learned has been this Gmail business.  I have had a Gmail from a previous class but I never used it until now.  It is so easy to send things, forward things, and make copies of stuff using Gmail.  I also got a bit distracted changing the background :)  I like when we have documents that we all share because it is easier to add things.  Projects go so much quicker when we all have the document that we can put information on instead of finding our stuff, sending it to whomever, and then putting it on the project.  Speaking of projects, ours is going really well.  Beth is our team leader which is a good choice because she knows how to get stuff done!  Pretty much everyone is on task and does what they are supposed to do.  When someone is gone, we all pick up the slack and get the job done.  We all worked well together and when there was something to fix, we fixed it and made it better.  We got our project done ahead of time and it turned out really nice :)

Our group researched Voting Regulations and Congressional Elections.  I learned a lot of information on both topics from all the research we did over the past 2 weeks.  From researching voting regulations, I learned where you can register to vote and where you can go to vote.  I also learned about bilingual voting ballots.  If you don't speak English, you can ask for bilingual ballots which I thought was very nice to have for non-English speaking people.  Congressional Elections were harder to research but I did learn some things.  I learned that this year is the 57th presidential election and also that the senate and house elections are on the same day as the presidential elections which I don't think happens often (Election Day is on November 6th).  I learned that we are in District 8 and that some of our representatives are Joe Walsh, Richard Durbin, and Mark Kirk.  I did the research on Joe Walsh but I wasn't really that interested in it because he is a Republican :)  This project was really fun and it was interesting to learn all these things.  They will definitely be helpful in the future :)