Michelle Bachelet

January 15 was an exciting day. For those of you who dont know, it was the day of the Chilean Presidential Elections. After a long and huge battle, Chile elected its first female president by a margin of something near the numbers of 53% to 47%.

Rumor had the the president elect was going to be giving a speech in the Centro, so being the curious people we are - but mainly very excited that the candidate that we would have voted for if we had voting rights won - we went out to the Centro. I was able to see her from my place in the mob.

It was awesome. I mean, everyone was very excited that she won and people had Chilean flags flying everywhere. It was a party. I only wish people would be that excited about elections stateside.