You can also be a President

Jan 16, 2009

Barack Obama is going to be sworn in on Tuesday January 20, 2009 as the first black President of the United States of America. He is now a great man. years ago he was just a child like you but he had great dreams.

Barack Obama is going to be sworn in on Tuesday January 20, 2009 as the first black President of the United States of America. He is now a great man. years ago he was just a child like you but he had great dreams.

Now he has achieved them. you too will achieve those dreams in your head like he did if you work hard like him. Lydia Namubiru tells us the story of when Obama was just a child

When Barack Obama was a child, his friends and family called him Barry. He was a boy with big cheeks and dark skin like yours. He lived with his mother’s parents in Hawaii, USA.

His mother, Ann Duhnam, was American and his father was a Kenyan. Barry did not see his father most of the time because he lived in Africa but his mother and grandparents told him a lot about him.

When he was a child, Obama loved eating sweets especially one kind of sweet that was made out of rice and had wrappers that were safe to eat. He also used to eat roasted pork and played a lot at the beach. He learnt to swim when he was six years old.

He was very close to his grandfather and he used to go fishing with him. He also one time took him to an air base to see astronauts land from space.

When he was six, his mother went to live in Indonesia and took him too. In Indonesia, he used to keep a baby crocodile as a pet and learnt to eat grasshoppers.

One day he was playing football with his friends and another group of children came to tease him. Obama got very angry. He went home, got his crocodile and chased them with it. They never came back to disturb them.

He started going to school in Indonesia. Even now, 30 years after he was a pupil there, his Indonesian teachers remember him. The teacher who used to teach him in ‘P.3’ says he was very bright, smart, active and he acted like someone who would one day become a great leader. He used to organise others for class activities and they listened to him.

But children also used to tease him because he was black. Indonesians are light-skinned like Indians.

His mother also taught him at home. Even though he was very young, Obama used to wake up very early at 4:00am and revise with his mother for three hours before going to school. He loved to read. He says his favourite book was called “Where the Wild Things are.”

Obama by the way understood that all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. He was very active in sports like basketball and baseball.

In most things, Obama looked like child but he had big dreams. In P.3, what is called third grade in the US, Obama wrote a composition entitled “I want to be President”. Even in secondary school, he wrote ‘Obama’ in the wet cement near his school’s canteen.

He always dreamt of being a great leader. Even today, he still says one can achieve all their dreams.

What is your dream? Dream it and you will achieve it like Obama.

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