Are we there yet???

im bored.

the first few days were great. i ran out immediately to take pics of escolares manifestando, theyre just so cute in their little uniforms and all the accessories that no doubt spring from years of wearing the same fuckin uniform as everybody else...

there are cute little 80s escolares with big hair and brightly colored legwarmers
cute little chilean goth escolares with black nail polish or dyed hair or dark lipstick
goth/punk escolares with a mix of the 80s tribute hair accessories plus loads of piercings
punk escolares with loads of piercings plus the ubiquitious black hoodie, tattered and patched preferably
and then theres just yer average everyday escolare.
they just are adorable, many of them smoke, i know its not cool to smoke and probably less cool if yer like 12 but its so fuckin badass all those little girls with thier dark matching sweaters and shoes and eyeliner and little guys with thier crooked ties...they just look so cute even puffing away at cigarretes in the frosty morning air right outside of school...

so youd think itd be easy to find a fuckin crowd of hundreds of em right?
well on the day my school officially went on paro i recd in the mail a new music mix from j which i immediately plugged into my discman and off i went camera in hand searching for crowds of jumping singing chanting escolares...picked up k the aussie and headed downtown, not much luck..hit the biblioteca nacional, u de chile, then the moneda where we found a modestly sized crowd and then headed home figuring they must have calmed down...

later a friend who lives near plaza italia told me it was a madhouse with mustard gas and firehoses and that she could hardly breathe when she went outside, go figured i had headed downtown and they had all been over at plaza italia..as i saw on the news that same night...

so the next day i thought well ill just head toward plaza italia and get some of the schools on the way...striking had degenerated slightly from the shouting and chanting of even a day before to a bunch of kids hanging out in front of closed schools blaring reggaeton smoking making out chatting and dancing, but i got a few decent pics...when i got to plaza italia it was pretty empty and i was getting tired so i stopped in on the monkeys to say hi. turns out the big march happened in front of la moneda that day..

.my roomies were like why dont you turn on the news first before you go and i said well i just didnt think itd be tough to encontrar a big ass group of striking students....

but what do i know.
well they rejected the offer negotiated from the gov and called for another natl day of strike today but i suspect in the end they will take whats on the table since negotiations have officially ended and many of the concerns have been addressed and i dont know about everyone else but im bored as fuck. actually ready to go back to school. how do you like that?