This picture is the front-page of http://www.bbc.com/. It says that President Sarkozy is being defiant and that he is going through with his overdue reforms that are meant to help the nation not cripple it like the strikes. Apparently it is costing France hundreds of millions of Euros a day…That’s in Euros not Dollars, multiply that number by like 10000 and you get dollars. If that were the case I would already be home haha, Paris is expensive enough. Too bad I didn’t put all of my life savings into gold and Euros before I came. I would be rolling into mad Benjamins when I got back. Anyway there is no end in sight for the strike and today hundreds of thousands of civil servants, teachers, utility workers, and even hospital staff workers have joined the strike. I was walking home and on the way I saw another CGT (communists to me) rallying in the street protesting and setting off flares…But then again you would too if you were going to lose your job for the betterment of the economy. That’s what is going to happen with Sarko’s needed reforms for government jobs will be cut especially in the education sector. I mean the fact that is winter and terrible weather outside adds to the dismal atmosphere with the strike, but I have gotten use to the walk. It takes almost the same amount time taking the metro with transferring and waiting for slow trains.I feel sorry for my sister who is coming tomorrow, she will have an amazing time but the weather hasn’t been great the last few days and I feel like we are going to have do Paris by foot. I mean its fun to explore and see the city without riding the dirty, ugly metro. But there are certainly places that are worse off like Bangladesh that just had that huge cyclone, so I won’t naturally complain about this social disaster. I am looking forward to Thanksgiving! Hope everyone has a great time with their families.
