Finishing Presidents

Today we finished up reviewing facts about the presidents of the countries we've been studying. We started today by commenting on Barack Obama, who has been re-elected for a second term for President of the United States. We found out that he was the Senator of the state of Illinois, and that he was a graduate at Columbia University and Harvard Law School. Mr. Schick told us that when Mr. Obama resigned from Senator of Illinois, the Governor of Illinois at the time, Rod Blagojevich,  needed to find a new Senator for the state. He was actually considering appointing Oprah Winfrey for the role at one point! Instead, he got greedy, and decided to sell the position to whoever would pay the highest. Since that's apparently illegal in the United States, he was arrested and remains in prison to this day.
We also learned from Mr. Schick that there was a recent picture of Barack Obama and Michelle Obama after they won the 2012 election. He told us that it was the most liked picture in Facebook history.

We also learned about Israel and Iran. We learned that it is very possible that there could be a war between the 2 countries because Israel is a Jewish country surrounded by many Islamic, Arab countries. There is also a lot of speculation over Iran's nuclear program. Many countries suspect that Iran is trying to build a nuclear bomb, when they just claim that they are building a nuclear power plant that's completely harmless.

Some students were also commenting on facts of presidents with facts of their own, however Mr. Schick kept asking them where they got there information. Mr. Schick reminded us all to use reliable internet sources to get information, because there was no way of telling if the facts from the students were true.