Nationwide Protest

As is normal everytime the French decide that they're upset, they protest. Normally though it's just one sector of the society - teachers, public transit workers, the post office, or something like that. Today has been dubbed "black thursday" because nearly every major sector in France is protesting. They're worried about job insecurity. Personally, and maybe this is just because I'm American, but you'd think that protesting wouldn't really help because the companies would fire them and just hire different people. But that's just me. If you're at all interested, here's an article from cnn.com.

The other night my host mom and I were talking about how German is not a "beautiful language" and she was like "yeah but I'm biased because of the German occupation" and then proceeded to tell me about her experience during the Nazi occupation! I was really surprised - I knew she lived through it and must remember it but didn't think that I should ask. But it was really cool and sad. She was 7 or 8 and had to shelter Nazis in her house because it had enough room for several of them - and her house became like Nazi headquarters for her town. But then she was like "I remember when the Americans came to liberate us; my mom had old curtains that were in blue and red and we made little French flags and gave them to the American soldiers as they walked past our house." And then she was like "it was really cool because we'd see them all over town, getting their haircuts or something" lol. She said she kept in touch with a few of them and they sent her gum and cigarettes until she turned 18 - even though they were only in her little town for 2 days or so. But I thought that was really cool (and sad obviously, that she had Nazis in her house).

Other than that not a lot is happening. I'm getting back into my classes which are alright. The class selection this semester sucks but I have enough classes so whatever. I miss you all!