Elections, Part 2

It’s a big night tonight…what with the elections.

I’ve been running around a bit today, and I picked up a couple of newspapers so I can see what they are saying about the election. I figure I’ll buy some tomorrow too and maybe on Wednesday. Then, I went up to the Fulbright offices to pick up an invitation to an election party held by the US embassy. It starts at 10 PM tonight (just after dinner in Spanish time), and I thought I might go for an hour or two. 🙂 That would be around 3 PM in Oklahoma and 1 PM in California, so voting will still be in process there.

The invitation to the election party!

What else? For lunch, I went to El Pastor–the Bolivian restaurant near our apartment, and on the news, they talked a bit about the American election. The 3 Spaniards at the table next to me were talking about it. All eyes are on America today. The Spaniards joked that the “state” of Spain and the “state” of France, etc. should get a vote. 🙂 It’s funny when you think that we rarely know who is running for prime minister or president of most other countries–even Canada and Mexico which are right next door.

So here is a little international quiz. Name the current leaders of:

1. Canada
2. Mexico
3. United Kingdom
4. Australia
5. Germany
6. France
7. Italy
8. Portugal
9. Russia
10. Japan
11. Spain