Hey, so after a few weeks of being bombarded with flyers and salespeople coming in our classes talking about a possible strike that our faculty (or university branch) could start quite soon, after distributing little squares (red for those in favor and blue for those against the strike) that people would wear on their backpacks or on their shirts, we finally sat together today to talk about it all.

Why a strike? Hmmmm. Well, students don’t want to pay more for their education that they do right now and universities in general have been increasing their costs, and especially, our university has big financial problems right now, there is more then that but anyways. So after sitting for 6 hours of debating, voting and a one-minute break in a 500-people filled room, we finally took the final vote. The obvious happened. The majority voted in favor of a “general, unlimited strike” (don’t know how to say that in English). So by mid-October I should have no more classes. Lots of fun eh?

Well, I wore the blue square.

What is good though, is that we (people from my class) were able to change and add a few things about how the strike would be carried out, and so it protects us so we can still go to our internship classes.

If you pray for me, pray that the strike will not really affect my courses this semester or next semester.