It’s been a week since America elected their president for the next four years. The election was tough to watch because the suspense was killing us on who will be our next elected president. A large majority of America and the world were not happy with the results. It’s still very strange and shocking to hear who our next president is for 2017. I have nothing against the votes for the election or which party people are a part of.

Speaking as an adult here, we all have different opinions in the world. I am also not against the protests going on across the world for people who are Anti- Trump or don’t support what he or Pense want to do to “make america great again”. The Anti- Trump protests have been happening since the night Donald J Trump was elected president. The morning he was announced president, people were already grabbing sharpees and poster paper to write down every single thing they could think of to get people’s attention on what our world would look like to them now. The protests have been taking place in New York City, San Francisco, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Kentucky, Florida, and my hometown, Maryland.

I attended a peaceful protest last friday in Boston Commons. The protest was all about us having freedom of speech and hearing what everyone who is diverse in the world was there. I usually don’t get political no matter what the reason is but this was a total different experience I was feeling. I’ll point out the fact that I’m a woman who is not afraid to speak up about anything. I recently wrote on my facebook wall that I was terrified for the country which is one of the reasons I went to the rally with my friends.

I have friends who are gay, bi, colored, foreign who are equally important to all of us. I’m happy we got to go to the peaceful protest because you really saw how many people were affected by the election results and who were there to fight for their freedom. It was not a riot or showed any violence at all. The protest started at 2:00 pm and ended at 7:00 pm. Over 2,000 people showed up to the protest. You could see Boston Commons starting to grow because of the crowd that showed up. It was a successful peaceful protest which the world should see more of the violent riots. Again, freedom of speech is what I'm fighting for in order to help my country at this time.

We just need to keep showing our love and support for each other. "I'm not giving up, and neither should you".