Who is Tony Blair?

I had been planning to write about the competitive games of table tennis I have enjoyed with Mike, Dan, Jack and Dave, but I don't think that I will. I had been planning on writing about the crisp autumn/winter type feel outside, it reminds me of a crystal clear cold day in Indiana, but I won't write about that. I had also been planning on writing about our church placements, for those of you who know or care we are in East Baskingstoke (Phil Norris is pastor) with Mark Eley, a youth pastor from Middlesbrough, he is a good friend of both of ours. But I am not going to write about that. Who knows who Tony Blair is, if you do that means you are either British, up on world politics, or happened to read the paper lately. If you don't he is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. This means that he might be one of the 3 most influential governmental people on earth today, and in Europe the most influential person in government. When his Jaguar pulled up to the Kings Centre today we realized that the hush-hush, the sniffing dogs, the numerous police, the many black coated men hanging around meant that Tony Blair was arriving for a speech he was giving today. People that were invited to this gathering found out yesterday, they were told where the speech was at late yesterday and found out that Mr. Blair was going to be giving an address late yesterday, or this morning when they arrived. With all that being said, we as a KBC group was giddy, interested, excited, surprised and galking as he showed up, shook hands with Dave Perry, Beth, Abi, Amy, Lisa and others. Somehow Rebecca was ushered over to the Press area (I think because she had a camera) that was cool, there she was smiling, and standing next to all of these huge cameras reporters. I thought that was really cools! Then the BBC reporters came over and asked some scientific questions to some students (you can watch some of this on the link to the BBC news report) http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/nolavconsole/ukfs_news/hi?redirect=st.stm&news=1&
bbram=1&bbwm=1&nbram=1&nbwm=1&nol_storyid=6112666 > (This site does not work totally, after clicking go to the BBC news link, then politics and look for Blair talks with young scientists link)Then after his address was over a few of us wandered out just in time to see him leaving, I along with others shook hands with him, he had a nice tie on. That's who Tony Blair is,enjoy pics