Life Update: Huelgas

This last week was an exciting week I would say. It was my second to last day at volunteering, where I had a marvelous time. It was my last Thursday and Friday of internship, just two more Mondays to go for that. It was also supposed to be my last full week of classes since this coming week we will be doing two days of the Camino de Santiago. We had to watch a gross film called "The Way" which was about the Camino. I'm sure the only way to make that film worse was if we had watched it in English so I actually understand everything that was going on. Who wants to watch movies at 4 in the afternoon that you don't get to choose and you can't eat while watching the movie right? Plus, who ever wants to be required to watch a movie.
Well, on Monday I hung out with Macka and Mary after internship. We went shopping at the cutest store that I would buy everything from if I could.

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The cutest store 

In said store, they had a bunch of things you don't really need but are adorable. For example, there were mini shopping carts to hold pens and such (just just be a toy). There were mega huge erasers with cute sayings on them and some were shaped like gnomes, bears, all the cool things. I think my favorite thing they are selling there is a puzzle that's a red heart for couples therapy. I'm thinking about buying it just because of the hilarity of it. I absolutely love that this puzzle is a thing and its for "putting the pieces back together". 

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While we were at this store, we started hearing about the Huelga. The students of our university had decided to hold a protest against the education system on Wednesday and Thursday. People can hold protests and demonstrations and such all the time if they want, all they have to do is inform the Xunta (their governmental people) or probably more likely inform the police so the police can be there and make sure everything is going smoothly. We were told we wouldn't be able to get into the building where our class was on Wednesday because protesters would be blocking the doors, sadly there was no protests just a bench that had been dragged in front of the door which was easily removed by someone else. So we had class on Wednesday, though we held out hope someone would come in and rescue us from class, telling us we weren't allowed to have class during a protest. Apparently this has happened in the past. Sadly we were not rescued. Our last class of the day though, the teacher that we would not have excepted this from, seemed disappointed that we were not out there experiencing this protest. We had a nice chat about it and it was decided that we would be missing class on Thursday to support the protesters, plus who wants to go to class. Instead of a full week of class, we skipped Thursday and the day was wonderful. 

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The Huelga

We were expecting rain, but it was actually a nice day to just wander around until lunch. I greatly enjoyed not having class, especially Rosana's class since she's driving me insane. I'm not 5 in case y'all didn't know, she thinks we are all 5 or something. 

On Saturday, we were supposed to go to Ourense but it was cancelled because of bad weather for the 3rd weekend in a row. I mean the 1st weekend Steph and I were going to just go on our own, the second weekend Erasmus didn't have enough people signed up, and this weekend there was bad weather. Obviously the world doesn't want us to go to Ourense though. Hopefully next weekend we will get there! But yeah Life Update... yay!