Protestando

I spent last night at the Casa Hogar, the last time I'll stay there until January! It was a pretty normal night, Omis taught me how to remove the components from circuit boards, which he then uses while fiddling with motors and lights and batteries. He studies at a school that is focused on that kind of stuff. I'm assuming he has the typical readin ritin and rithmatic classes as well, but he showed me his ID card and it says "escuela de electricidad". He likes it a lot, he always seems to be tinkering with one thing or another. He made a cd player out of an old computer tower..so that's cool.

The main excitement of the night was what was going on outside in the street. The Casa Hogar is located one building in from the corner of Avenida Dalla Costa, a very major street that goes all the way through San Felix, and a small street leading into Guiaparo on one side and Los Sabaneles on the other. Apparently there is an area nearby that has been without power since Saturday. And they aren't happy. So they decided to protest I guess? I don't understand exactly what the thinking is as far as how this will help, but I suppose it is to get the governments attention. It started with five car tires in the intersection. Then the tires had gasoline poured on them and were lit on fire. In the next half hour or so, 20-30 more tires were found, and the intersection effectively blocked. Hundreds of cars turned around in the street or hopped the divider to go back the way they came. I got some pictures early on, but it started raining and some of the boys wanted to watch videos from Alejandro's birthday party so I gave it to them. I was expecting the police or "La Guardia", the military, to show up at any minute. Huge fires, tons of smoke, blocked traffic on a very major street, of course they are going to show up and kick them out right? We were anticipating gun shots into the air, things to that effect. Nope. After about an hour a police motorcycle guy showed up with his lights on, slowly turned around and left. That was it. The people blocking the street eventually left,  yelling that they would be back at 5am to continue. This would cause so many problems. All of the buses use this route, I personally would have issues since I'm going to be going on the bus to Puerto Ordaz later today. It would majorly disrupt traffic. However, when I woke up this morning and looked out front, there was no one. The tires had burned out, the tree branches, car bumpers, and other junk they put in the street pushed to the side, and traffic was moving normally. So apparently they decided to sleep. Or maybe their power came back on.