Continuing to Follow Huckabee.

Last night (this morning at 2am for us) David and I watched the live YouTube Republican debate. I'd like to share with you the Southern Political Report's survey results from the debate:

"The Florida survey conducted with the Florida Chamber of Commerce showed the following results:

• Huckabee: 44%
• Giulani: 18%
• Romney: 13%
• McCain: 10%
• Thompson: 5%
• Paul: 4%
• Hunter: 1%
• Tancredo: 1%
• Rest: undecided

The survey of 341 Republicans who stated they were undecided, intended to watch the debate and agreed to phone in their opinion immediately after the ending was weighted for age and gender. It has a margin of error of +/- 6%.

A survey of Iowa Republicans of over 1,035 Iowa Republicans taken in the last twenty minutes of the debate showed Huckabee the winner in that state as well. The numbers virtually mirrored Florida. They were:

• Huckabee: 32%
• Romney: 16%
• Giuliani: 12%
• McCain: 10%
• Thompson: 7%
• Paul: 6%
• Tancredo: 2%
• Hunter: 0%
• Rest: undecided

Interestingly, the Iowa poll did not survey only undecided voters. Yet, both a survey of undecided voters in Florida and a general survey in Iowa showed Huckabee the winner. In the media Spin Room, most of the major candidates were left with little if any media attention as virtually all print and broadcast media circled Governor Huckabee."

If you weren't able to watch the debate I highly recommend it. In the same way I highly recommend that you watch any of the debates because in each one Huckabee shows that he is a strong candidate and the best Republican candidate for the nomination of the Republican Party.

I hope and pray that if you are a Christian Republican your faith is strong enough to allow you to support Huckabee 100% even though many "Christian leaders" of today don't think he can "beat Hillary." Well, I don't know what God they serve, but my God is capable of beating Hillary and I believe he can use this man of God to do so.

Be involved! Vote in the primaries!!

Mike Huckabee is also endorsed by Chuck Norris.(see the video at the end)

Oh, one other thing that was pretty funny...

When addressing a question about trying to send someone to Mars (like we did with the moon) Huckabee recommended that Hillary be the one that gets to go. We need a President with a sense of humor!

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beginnings and ends

Today in Metz a strike is starting, and it's a pretty big one. All government employees are striking. From teachers, to postal workers, to train employees, no one is going to work, and no one is sure how long it will last. I don't really know all the details, but I hope it doesn't last too long. David and I need to take a train on December 11th to go home!!

In Swafford news... I've been talking to David more about wanting Duncan to come live over here with us, especially since pet sitting our friend's dog. Last night he came home and handed me a piece of paper that looked like this:

We wouldn't have a specific room to put him, but this was just David's way of saying "It's ok with me if Duncan comes over here." !! This is big news, and I'm very excited. I hope I can find the best way to get him over here.

Thursday is Thanksgiving! We will be going to dinner at GTL with about 150 other people (students, professors, and families). My first Thanksgiving in another country, David and my first thanksgiving as husband and wife, and my first thanksgiving without any of my other family. A lot of firsts this year...

And lastly, and David will make fun of me for this... Our last month-iversary is this Friday!! (not that we have been celerating monthiversasries) I told David this is a big deal because we will never have a monthiversary again! Once you reach the first year anniversaries are all that matter... SO, we'll "celebrate" this one. I think we're going to go ice skating :o)

a little more from Halloween

Singing Pumpkin Jack

Je suis retard.

(no, that doesn't' say "I am a retard." It says "I am late." ...in posting)

I suppose we have been pretty busy! Here is a quick recap of the last month:

I finished knitting my quilt!

I got my hair cut, by Jacques. Jacques is very French. He likes to throw your hair around, and he cuts every one's hair as if it were as easy as breathing. I went from having really long and straight hair to having much shorter (than I expected), very layered hair. I'm still getting used to how to style it properly. The picture makes it look pretty bad. It's not that bad.

(before and after)

Next we had "boyfriend Dan" come for a visit. This is the boyfriend of my cousin Anna. He is living in France for a year (like she did) as an English teaching assistant. He isn't very far from us, so he stopped by for the weekend during a week-long break. It was nice to finally meet him! Next time maybe we can see him and Anna together...if they ever get their schedules coordinated! :o)

While Dan was with us we had another overnight visitor. Maddie! Some of our friends went on vacation and I got to pet sit. For the entire week! It was nice having Maddie around. It made me want to have Duncan over here more and helped me to see what it would be like if he were here. Maybe...

We also celebrated Halloween! Here are 4 pictures of our first pumpkin, Jack. From design to slightly rotting (notice his "black eye"). We thought he was nice and scary. The only sad thing is, when we put him outside i the trash one night we saw pieces of him the next morning in the street...I don't think he made it to the dump. :o( Poor guy.

One of the most eventful and anticipated events of the YEAR has also happened. David has finished taking his PhD qualifying exams. After 4 months of studying, 3 written exams, and 3 oral exams, he is finished! What's next? Waiting for the results. Hopefully he passed all of them, but if he didn't he has one more chance (again in March). FYI - he could pass 1 and retake 2, or pass 2 and retake 1, or pass none and retake all of them, OR pass all of them and be finished! This is just something that is required to obtain a PhD... and for mechanical engineers at Georgia Tech it isn't easy (thus the 4 months of studying).

And...we got a TV. Our thanks goes out to one of my english students and his family for donating it. They got two really nice new flat screen TVs and were just going to put this one in the trash, but they offered it to me and I took it off their hands. Not we have access to hundreds of channels with our digital TV service that we have finally activated. We can watch everything from CNN International to the Al Jazeera channel. It's amazing how many international stations we have.

Lastly, we purchased tickets to go home for Christmas last night! We will get to stay in GA for almost an entire month. We are very excited. We will be home on December 11th. Hope to see everyone!