Still Striking...

Well, we are now in our 5th official day of the
strike, and our 2nd day of being on illegal strike.
Apparently teachers have the right to strike for three
days, and after that it's against the law. I keep
expecting police to come to the school and arrest us
all, but nothing that exciting looks likely to happen.
The teachers are the only union still on strike, and
only the government run schools are in session right
now. Water went out for a few hours last Thursday,
and power for a shorter time, but it wasn't a big
deal. So who knows what is going to happen here- the
government can't budge, because it has no other source
of income other then taxes at this point, and the
teachers have made it a matter of principle not to
budge. So we are all sitting here in Benque, getting
a little stir crazy, and praying that our students
aren't getting in too much trouble with all their time
off. I can tell I've become a true teacher, because
my reaction to the strike has been, if I had known the
kids would have all this time off, I would have
assigned more homework...