Huelga

Sooo... There is definately a strike happening right now in my facultad. And my roommat is involved. Haha!

There´s this thing called Bologna thats trying to be passed that would change the standards of all the universities in the European Union. Basically it would take a degree you get from an Ivy League school and make it the equivalent to getting a degree at CSU. ¿Entiendes?

So, as would be expected most of the students here at the Compultence are not down for the change. There have been several strikes on campus about it and there are always new signs up denouncing it, but today is different. Since Monday there have been students locked in the building over night in protest of Boloña and they are all on full strike along with more (my roomie included). When my friend Janel and I were getting off the bus this morning in front of my facultad AnaOla was right there. Haha... with face paint making a human chain and telling all the students getting off the bus not to go to their classes. I said hi and we kept walking towards the doors where it looked like we weren´t going to be able to enter. There were a lot more students there with a huge banner covering the door saying something about Boloña and the strike and a couple guys were on megaphones. We had to walk under the banner to get through the doors and as soon as you duck you start to get gently hit and taunted by even more students in the foyer with newspaper pom-poms calling you a name that we didn´t quite understand and telling you not to go to class. They had newspaper strips hanging from the ceiling like streamers with signs about stopping Boloña all over. Then on the stairway that goes to the bottom floor they had blocked one off by wrapping toilet paper around the rails so you really couldn´t walk through. Luckily the other side was clear. There are ridiculous amounts of signs everywhere... much more than usual. And very few people are actually in the building. Normally you can barely walk, but today it seems semi-ghost town.
Thankfully my teacher did show up for class, he was lucky enough to not be hit. I´m guessing they would get in a lot of trouble for hitting a teacher, but the rest of my classmates had been. We all kind of feel ashamed for coming to our classes since this is such an important thing to the students here. I wouldn´t want a change like this in the U.S. I understand why its been proposed, but higher education to me shouldn´t be dumbed down to help the masses. Anyhooter... I´m gonna get going soon and I´m kind of nervous to walk outside the building. I´m also wondering how long my roommate is going to be here, I wonder if she´s going to spend the night again?