Successful

The moment everybody was waiting for, the reluctant resignation of Hosni Mubarak. The day he stepped down, I was so happy I couldn't contain myself. My house was in a state of awe/happiness/what's next? Everybody knows that the day Mubarak stepped down everything was going to go back to normal because there are numerous steps that need to be taken before the country returning back to its normal state. However, there was nothing wrong about celebrating possibly the most important step of all; remove this man from office. And that's exactly what the people did. And if my house here in this country, thousands of miles away is roaring with happiness, I couldn't imagine what Egypt was like and I really wanted to know.

I asked my cousin again what he personally did when he fist heard that Mubarak had stepped down. He replied with my entire house jumped up and down and the entire neighborhood ran into the streets yelling out of excitement and cheering. He also told me his father started handing out large sums of money to him and his sisters (my other cousins). This was just a miniature form of a small celebration that took place.

I would have loved to have been in Tahrir Square the night of the announcement. I would have loved to have been apart of the excitement that was occurring over there. However, the excitement in my house was enough for me at the time but there's no denying that it was just a very small representation of what actually was going on back in Egypt.