30/3
Today the grevistes came right into the middle of our class to “protest” in a way. They walked right in the middle of our phonetics/linguistics class and started pulling chairs and tables into the hall. No explanation, no nothing; they just asked us to move our stuff off the tables that we weren’t actually sitting at. Our teacher was having a conversation with on of the students at the front of the class so she didn’t even notice it was going on until after they had taken most of the furniture. Then she started asking them what they were doing and tried to make them stop, but the guy, somewhat angrily, replied that they were en greve and this was they way they were protesting. The teacher said that she was also en greve, but that she still came to work and that our class was a different part of the university (the cuefle with international students) and that we paid more, etc. This didn’t stop them however. So they promptly took all the chairs and tables that we weren’t using and noisily pulled them out into the hall then promptly closed the door right after before the “head” guy said, “resume your lesson”! He also looked kind of old, like doesn’t he anything better to do with his time? Recently the students have been pulling all the chairs and tables out of classrooms to make some sort of point, and maybe it doesn’t matter to them since they don’t go to class anyways, but for us, who do still go to class, its annoying to show up and find that there are no tables or chairs in the room at all. As we were walking out of the building we noticed all the tables and chairs stacked in the lobby. So they even took all the chairs all the way downstairs and I’m just really hoping that tomorrow morning I don’t have to drag tables and chairs up several flights of stairs just so I can go to class. What is this even accomplishing?!
