three years ago today
(following Phantom's lead)
I was flying home from here after being at the recruitment weekend for my program, wondering if I really wanted to move to this country. I was encouraged by the people I'd met and the anti-war graffiti I'd seen here, but it definitely made me think. I connected through NYC and was freaked out that there were soldiers carrying machine guns patrolling the airport. I was thinking about the fliers at my home uni announcing protests scheduled for whenever the bombs started dropping and wishing I could be doing something more useful, or at least active, than sitting on a plane.
posted by Lucy @ 10:11 PM
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Funny, I chose my undergrad institution partially based on a war protest. There was a shantytown set up in protest of the war. I was in heaven upon seeing that. Sadly, there was nary a protest the whole time I was in school there.
The anti-war protests were general city-wide ones that were just publicised on campus. The uni itself couldn't even muster as many protesters as police officers for the biggest protest I ever saw.
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