I hoped to wake up this morning to the announcement of the first ever female president. Instead, my fears were confirmed as I reluctantly looked at my phone to see that Donald Trump was elected president.

There has been a lot of talk about what to do if he were elected president. Apparently the Canadian immigration website crashed yesterday. People are already looking for ways out.

But I've spent the day feeling lost. What does this mean for our country? For our future? For Laurel?

I know I'm not alone in feeling this way. Millions of Americans woke up today feeling afraid, feeling like their voices don't matter, feeling like the progress we've made is being stripped away.

But here's what I keep coming back to: we don't give up. We don't leave. We stay and we fight. We make our voices heard in every election, every protest, every conversation.

The road ahead is uncertain. But we're in this together.

– Carmel