Rebellion!!!!
So, school is closed indefinitely, isn't that cute?
For those who don't know (and there's a lot, seeing as how most college students here seem not to read the paper) Transports (the deparment that's in charge of all the buses for the student routes, inside and outside the city) is being held by students, asking, ironically for more buses and for new busses.
Now, the transport department is adyacent to my School, Sciences (Math, Physics, Chemistry, Computing, Human Sciences and, mine, Biology), so, as the rector said, it's our fault that they're there, cause despite the fact that they're armed and pissed, we're supposed to get them out of there, apparently, we're supposed to be trained as navy seals or something, along with our careers.
It's all a big mess, with political implications, and they vacated the sciences school, cause they were gonna ask the guys to come out (I can just imagine the scene: "Guys, will you please come out?" "No" "Ok, bye now"). And the guys expanded their action radius, the entered other schoold to get their busses too.
So now, the whole college is closed.
Here's where it gets funny, I'm working in a lab at my college, and we're starting some experimental work on a project we're supposed to take to a congress in may next year. It was all invented by my slavist tutor, but, hey, it's gonna appear on our resumés too, so we said ok.
She said, not in so many word that we were to be like the mail (rain, thunder, snow, or rabid dogs couldn't stop us), but, and here's the kicker, she won't even go to the lab 90% of the times she asks us to be there. She has a sort of assistant, who she's training to take her position, and she's the one that goes everyday and stays with us the long hours, helping us with our work.
Since school is closed, and there's no classes, no activities whatsoever, and even no guards, the whole college is like a big ghost town. The only way in is walking, and the lab where I work is not exactly close to any exit, you have to walk some to get to it, from any point (it's pretty safe to say it's in the middle of nowhere). Yesterday, when the suspension of classes started, a friend of mine and I went to the lab, cause we had some work to finish, and we didn't want to lose a week's worth of work. It's pretty scary to walk around, two girls, in the middle of nowhere, with armed guys close to you.
So, I say to my friend, that she should call the tutor's assistant, to find out what can we do about next week and such. She calls, the assistant's sleeping, so she decides to call our tutor (Why didn't I call, you ask? I wasn't home, and didn't have enough money on my cellphone... she did). Now, I don't know what she said to our tutor, but the slave driver, of course, suggested we should go, no matter what. Then, she called me. With an über bitch tone (her über bitch tone os low and paced.. but she leaves no doubt that she's right, you're wrong, and how dare you), she tells me that people from her lab have always been able to get into school, that she gets permits, and talks to people and such. So I tell her that there's no guards to talk to to let you in, and that not even with permits you could get in, and she launches again to say that people from her lab, yadda yadda yadda.
Finally, she tell me "Forget the lab, then, forget your thesis, forget everything" and then she softened up a bit (teeny tiny bit) by saying that yes, if the rector says it's not safe we shouldn't go in (despite the fact that she thought is was perfectly ok that we went inside alone, and walking), but I could tell from her voice that she was pissed at me for even suggesting it. Now, if she were to tell me that we would all go, and go in walking, in a group, with her, being the head of the lab right alongside of us, I'd have said "tell me the time woman, and I'll be there and work my ass off". but of course, that's not gonna happen.
So now, after all, I'm a bit scared that her "forget your thesis, forget everything" was serious... But at this point, it's not that I don't care, it's that I'm not gonna expose myself to get raped of killed, just cause she doesn't think there's any danger for me, but she won't expose herself to it.
If anything bad comes out of this, I'll stand, most likely alone, and face it, cause all the other girls might probably be too afraid to lose all their work.
Something funny, I ran into one girl in all the way towards the lab... and it turns out I know her... I hope I'm not turning into my dad, who's that guy I know besides that weird old man dressed in white and with a funny hat.
Oh, and the center of my city is turning to be even more of a hardcore experience as time passes by.
Anyway, I'm ranted out now.
But, as I said... I could get used to doing that.
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