Learning About Life

   Obama's mother wanted him to get the best education possible. In 1971, she sent him to the Punahou School, in Honolulu, Hawaii. As someone with a white mother and a black father, Barack had to figure out he fit in with the other kids there. Obama continued to seach for his identity as a student at occidental College, in California, and student at University, in New York.
   After finishing his studies at Columbia in 1983, Obama took a job in New Jork. However, he felt that he should br doing more to help others. Obama moved to Chicago in 1985 to work with people in poor neighborhoods.

   Discovering His Roots
  Growing up, Obama was little of his father. Barack Obama Sr. moved back to Kenya when his son was young, and he visited young Barack only once. Barack Sr. died in 1982 before his son really got a chance to know him. Obama did not know his Kenyan family either. While he was living in Chicago, one of Obama's half siblings from Kenya, Auma, visited him. She suggested that Barack go to Kenya.
  Obama visited his father's family in Kenya in 1988. He met many family members there. He also started felling at peace with his identity and his place in the world.

   Law school
  In the fall of 1988, Obama started his studies at Harvard Law School, in Cambridge,Massachusetts. Obama had made a difference while working in Chicago's poor neighboorhoods. However, he felt that he could help more people if he became a lawyer. That way, he could wold work to change laws and make sure everyone had a fair chnce.
  At Harvard, Obama, became the first Afican-American president of the Harvard Law Review, a law journal. This was a big honor for him. As president of the Review, Obama got the chance to work with all types of people. He brcame good at getting pople to work toghether.