Michael for Secretary

When you are in fourth grade at the kids school, you get to run for student council.  There are three offices: President, Vice President, and Secretary.  Michael decided that he wanted to run for secretary.  Unfortunately, a few days before the elections we realized that an alligator hunting trip that he had been scheduled to go on with his brother and father was the same day as the speeches.  He may have been able to run without giving a speech, but surely he wouldn't have had any chance of winning.  We made him decide on his own, and he decided to stay home from the hunting trip to give his speech and run for secretary.  There were 22 kids running for president, another 10ish running for VP, but luckily, only 6 for secretary.  Michael wrote his own speech, and then practiced it a few times.  We told him he should do something to draw attention to himself like walk on his hands to the podium, and he totally did it!  After all of the speeches, Michael was the last speech (which probably really helped him to win), and he did a great job speaking.

 Here he his with his friend, Alexander, who ran for President.

I went to the school later to read for Nate's class, and they were quick to tell me that Michael had won!  I was pleasantly surprised.  His duties include helping with things like food drives and sining valentines, but more importantly, he gets to help with the morning announcements.  They do it with a video camera that is broadcast to all the rooms in the school and he gets to help with the computer images they put up and also running the camera.  He doesn't actually have to be in front of the camera.  I'm really excited for him.