Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Hello dear readers, today it is November 5 and I recall November 5 one year ago. I woke up at 06.19 on that day and I turned on the radio right away. What I heard then was Barack Obama delivering his victory speech. I'm not sure now if it was live, but later I have read that he started just before midnight, Eastern time. I was very content when I heard him. He's not a perfect President, but he is sure much, much better than John McCain would have been. I feel bad only thinking of a world with McCain in the White House. That would have been a disaster.

Anyway, yesterday, after my morning tasks, I wrote some and I made a phone call and after that my sister came to pick me up in her car. We went to her place and I helped to fix some important things in her home. I went away at 11.30 and I came home again at 17.20. During that time we also went for a walk. I had dinner and after that I went to a clinic to get some Pandemrix in my upper left arm. I was very impressed by the organization there. I came in and I saw a man sitting by a table. He gave me a form in which I had to fill in my name and my Social Security number. I also got a queue ticket with 054 written on it. After filling in the form I went to a queue. After a while I noticed that a lady behind me had a queue ticket with 053 on it so I told her to stand before me in the queue. By the way, she was born on a Saturday in 1931. We advanced and I noticed that the number on the ticket had no signifigance. There were three nurses vaccinating people and when I was number one in the queue I only had to look at them and after a while one of them caught my eye and I went to her. She asked me if I had taken any other vaccinations during the last two weeks. I told her I hadn't, which was also true, and she put the needle in my arm. It was over in less than 15 seconds and I returned home. All people working there had special clothes so that one easily could understand who was doing what. As I said, I was impressed. I thought to myself; this is how it is to live in a the Occident. You don't have to pay anything and everything is planned in a good way and it goes very smoothly. I didn't even have to show my ID card. I'm happy I was born in Sweden. I came home and I was lazy by the TV and then I was talking on the phone for about one hour and I chatted, but very little.