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Sunday, April 10, 2011

The Street of Yelling

You read that correctly.  That's what Nick has named the street we live on.  In the first 4 weeks we were here, there have been 4 protests that have marched down the street in front of the apartment.  Unfortunately, the first 2 happened when I was at work, so I missed them.  For the 3rd one, I was coming out of the Metro stop when I heard a lot of voices.  The protest had congregated around the one Metro stop right near our apartment.  Yes, I walked out into the middle of the protest.  I had people talking to me in French and trying to get me to take some flyers.  I just ducked and got out of there.

For the 4th one, I was actually home when we heard voices shouting.  We ran out to the balcony and saw the largest protest we've seen by far.  It looked like 4 protests merged into one that went 2 to 3 city blocks.  One was teachers, one was court workers... I have no idea what the other 2 were. 

Here they come...

And there they go...


There was yelling, chanting, and a lot of music playing through loudspeakers.

Hence, we live on The Street of Yelling.

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