Terrorism? No problem. Raise the Retirement Age? You have got to be F***ing kidding.

So, just a short note today.

I found out that France is supposedly on high alert for a terrorism attack. I only found out because another assistant told me, but there has been no word at school about this. What has been the buzz around campus? The change in the retirement age and the strikes and marches against it. Tomorrow there is another strike, I think the 4th one on this topic since I've arrived (less than a month ago). I still have to go to work, but some teachers stay back and when it's a student strike (like last Friday) a lot of students skip class, too. Honestly the worse part about the strikes is the cafeteria food. Because a lot of the staff is missing, the quality of the food on strike days tends to be pretty depressing.