President Obama attended his older daughter Malia’s high school graduation from Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C., on Friday, June 10, and onlookers said the outgoing president was one proud papa.
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There have been no officially authorized photos from Malia’s big day yet, but here’s a zoomed-out shot of the entire Sidwell Friends graduating class.
“We’re not going to talk about that on camera”, Obama told “CBS This Morning” co-host Gayle King last February. She is taking a “gap year” off before starting school, though.
“The idea of her having to transfer schools, move to a new city, halfway through high school would not make me popular”, Obama said, joking that “it is a little depressing” that he will remain in city after his term is up and likening himself to the “old guy at the disco”.
We’ve seen Malia Obama grow up before our eyes since her dad, Barack, entered the White House in 2009.
While he wasn’t able to teach her to drive – that task was taken up by the Secret Service – Obama did attend yearly parent-teacher conferences at Sidwell Friends and occasionally attended a basketball game or dance recital. Malia has had summer internships on the NY set of HBO’s “Girls” and in Los Angeles on a CBS sci-fi drama, since canceled, that starred Halle Berry. “I was the first president to have a BlackBerry, and so years passed and no one else has BlackBerries”.
Three months into her new White House life, Malia got the long-awaited puppy: Bo, a Portuguese water dog that was less likely than other breeds to aggravate her allergies.
At school, Malia played soccer and tennis, the flute and piano. “I can’t do it; it’s hard”.
Malia turns 18 on July 4, in time to cast her first vote for president – and for her father’s successor.
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When her parents leave the White House in January, Malia will still have a home in Washington.
