The First Lady with a student at the “Drink Up” exhibition. Photo c/o Ross Barkan/The New York Observer.
In addition to stops at national talk shows taped in the city, First Lady Michelle Obama spoke about the importance of regularly drinking water to school children at the New Museum in downtown Manhattan on Thursday.
As Ross Barkan at Politicker reports,
“Mr. Obama was visiting WAT-AAH!’s Taking Back the Streets exhibit, a collaboration between 14 artists that joined street art and children’s health in honor of the Drink Up Initiative, a program that encourages American kids to drink more water. Ms. Obama, who has focused on improving the physical health of the public as first lady, mostly marveled at the work the students were doing.”
The First Lady is quoted as telling the elementary school students:
“I am honored to be here and so proud of you guys. Thank you so much for this and keep it up, keep it up you guys are role models for so many kids, the fact that you guys can be involved in something this huge and exhibit this kind of creativity all over country is like a once in a lifetime thing, so you should feel very excited because I certainly am and this is really, really, really good.”
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