First Lady’s Dance Moves Woo Indian Crowds

This week, I read an article that Mrs. Obama visited India. The summary is as follows:

While President Obama is wooing India with promises of increased trade and United Nations clout, Mrs. Obama communicated with Indians, especially with children. The combination has been unexpected success. Before official three-day began on Saturday, the evaluation is lukewarm. However, Indian public and media become exuberant after the visit.

Mrs. Obama’ s relaxed manner and enthusiasm won her high prize.

Also, carefully planned event have enabled Mrs. Obama to interact casually with children, albeit scrum of photographer and reporters. She strongly advocated the importance of education, especially for girls. This is because as many as 60 percent of children live in poverty in India, overall literacy rates hover at 65 percent and female literacy rate are as low as 33 percent in some areas of the country. This time, she said “I didn’t grow up with a lot of money. I never even imagined being the first lady of the United States. But because I have an education, when the time came to this, I was ready.”

I did not know about Michael Obama well, so this was a good opportunity to learn of her human nature. When I read this article, I think she is very nice person.

She can understand people’s pain.

The first reason is that as she said, she is not so rich when she was a child. So, now she is the first lady, she knows the feeling of the public. Other first lady, for example, Carla Sarkozy, French first lady, is thought to be liberty. (She did not come to Japan when there was Shiretoko summit in Hokkaido!)  However, compared to other first ladies like Carla, Michael seems to takes matters earnestly. I believe that she thinks other people, especially children seriously, and she wants others to live happy life from the bottom of her heart.

The second reason is that she is an African American, so I think she had had many serious troubles so far. (I think to judge people from the color of the skin is stupid!)  However, Mrs. Obama got over the difficulties. Therefore, she is tough, and understand the feeling of hardness.

In addition to that as she makes much of education, I also think education is very important. Mrs. Obama said “I never even imagined being the first lady of United States. But, because I had an education, when the time came to this, I was ready.” Education helps people. For example, educated mothers can help their children when they are sick, but non-educated mothers can not help them. Therefore, education is thought to be significant.

 Reading this article, I can understand the job of first lady and Mrs. Obama. I decided to check the news of them from now on.

Heather Timmons. “First Lady’s Dance Moves Woo Indian Crowds”

New York Times 8 Nov. 2010 : n.pag 10 Nov. 2010