This is just a brief update about the protests and riots I wrote about in my last post.
Right now I'm sitting at my window watching the protesters march down the street. It's all very organized and civil here… the police are directing traffic and there looks to be only a couple thousand people in the demonstration. It actually seems a bit anti-climactic.
The interesting thing is, even though it's Saturday, school is in session. The government doesn't want the kids participating in the demonstrations, so they decided to hold classes. School will also be held on Sunday. As a foreign teacher, I'm exempt, but all of the regular teachers must skip their weekend and hold class. Which sucks for them… it doesn't appear that the weekend has been rescheduled, just cancelled. School resumes as usual on Monday.
Can you imagine how pissed students and teachers would be in the USA if the government just decided to randomly tack on a few extra days of school whenever they felt like it?
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