Duel Citizenship

With November being a huge political month over here in America, I thought it was about time I did my duty and vote. But before I could do that I had to take out citizenship. So in June I sent in my papers to get the process started. I thought it would take quite a long time to get any reply back and I might not make it in time for the November elections but to my surprise within a couple of weeks I had received notification of where and when I needed to get my finger prints taken. From then on it all went quickly. On September 22nd I became an American citizen.  I now hold duel citizenship. I dressed up in my red, white and blue clothes and thought the taking of the oath would be a big deal, but it wasn't, in fact I was quite disappointed.  Then on November 4th I dressed up to brave the cold and snow and prepared myself to stand in a long line to vote. There was no line where I went and it was a very easy process. I actually had a few tears well up in my eyes as I cast my vote. This was the first time in my life that I had ever voted and it felt good. I proudly displayed my "I Voted" sticker all day. 

Over the past few months we also managed to get Kelsey and Emily duel citizenship too. They are now Australian citizens as well as Americans. 

So let's see where this new president takes us. It is a scary economic time for most people and he has a lot of work to do to try to bring America back to where we have faith in the government, where people can feel secure in their jobs and can trust that things will get better before too long and before too much damage has been done.

I still call Australia home but America has been very good to us over the past 22 years. Luckily my red, white and blue clothes work for both countries.