Mr.Obama made the announcement at a school on the island of Martha's Vineyard,Massachusetts, where he and his family are spending the week on vacation.
VOA: standard.2009.08.25
Normally, he's based in Amman, Jordan, but he joins us now from the Netherlands, where he's onvacation.
He's studying for a license that will allow him to take passengers out on shrimp trawls -- a kind of working vacation for tourists with a taste for the job he learned from his father.