Ashley's blog 8/24

Day 1 Denver:

It all started to come together Saturday afternoon after we left the hotel, got on the Denver Light Rail and headed into the mile high city. We were coming in from the south side of a Denver suburb, and the first thing I noticed when arriving in Denver was Invesco Field were Democrat Presidential candidate BarackObama will give his acceptance speech Thursday and the Pepsi center were the rest of the Democratic National Convention will be held. To the left of the trains were the Rocky Mountains that were so beautiful they will take your breath away. We arrived at the Colorado Convention Center and signed in for the College Democrats of America. At the CDA we listened to other College Democrats who were running for CDA offices. The candidates for the offices had some good ideas on how to get more people involved with CDA and with the Politics. Although I felt that the CDA was slacking because our of four offices open for voting two of the candidates went unopposed. With one of those offices being for CDA President and Vice President. After hearing the speeches of the candidates we were separated into states and all sat together. Kentucky had a total of 11 students with 8 being Western Kentucky University Students. The state of Kentucky caucused over who we were going to be voting for in the CDA elections. After the elections were over some of us jetlagged from the flight came back to the hotel to hang out. I am looking forward to the week ahead, because who knows what it might bring. So far I am really enjoying Denver and can’t wait for the other activities ahead.

ARB