Sooo... Around ten ot eleven in the evening my parents told me top switch channels and look at what's actually going on in the city. I did.
A fight was going on. As I've heard, people were protesting peacefully in front of the parliament, and they turned violent when they were DENIED to read their protests and started to try to push their way in to the pariament and to the main building of the Hungarian Television called MTV. They failed on both, but they broke in to the building of MTV at least twice. They were pushed out with water cannons and pushed back again.
Then the mob began throwing stones at the buildings, and decided to burn a car. So they did. They fought the police, chanting patriotic poems (written for a revolution 2 hundred years ago), and jumped on cars and wreaked havoc.
Then came an armoured car, full of policemen with water cannons, trying to break them up. The mob stopped the car and attacked it. They jumped on and with stones and other blunt object tried to break in. The police fired some rubber bullets, I mean the ones in the car, because the car has been abandoned by the police. The ones in the car got trapped. The mob tried to burn the car while people, policemen were still in there, who didn't have a thing to do with all this.
I nearly turned off the tv then, but I had to see it.
Fortunately the trapped policemen managed to get out - by taking the protester's side. The riot was still in full swing, nobody went home, and I... decided to go to sleep.
Good thing I am sick today, or I would have been forced to go in to the city. It seems like things have calmed down, but I sure as hell don't want to go to the secondary shool I have to teach in or the university (under the wings of the reformed church) I study in. They would surely mourn that the bastard president just won't budge.
Truth be told, I wish he would budge and someone much better would take his place. A girl can still dream, no?
A fight was going on. As I've heard, people were protesting peacefully in front of the parliament, and they turned violent when they were DENIED to read their protests and started to try to push their way in to the pariament and to the main building of the Hungarian Television called MTV. They failed on both, but they broke in to the building of MTV at least twice. They were pushed out with water cannons and pushed back again.
Then the mob began throwing stones at the buildings, and decided to burn a car. So they did. They fought the police, chanting patriotic poems (written for a revolution 2 hundred years ago), and jumped on cars and wreaked havoc.
Then came an armoured car, full of policemen with water cannons, trying to break them up. The mob stopped the car and attacked it. They jumped on and with stones and other blunt object tried to break in. The police fired some rubber bullets, I mean the ones in the car, because the car has been abandoned by the police. The ones in the car got trapped. The mob tried to burn the car while people, policemen were still in there, who didn't have a thing to do with all this.
I nearly turned off the tv then, but I had to see it.
Fortunately the trapped policemen managed to get out - by taking the protester's side. The riot was still in full swing, nobody went home, and I... decided to go to sleep.
Good thing I am sick today, or I would have been forced to go in to the city. It seems like things have calmed down, but I sure as hell don't want to go to the secondary shool I have to teach in or the university (under the wings of the reformed church) I study in. They would surely mourn that the bastard president just won't budge.
Truth be told, I wish he would budge and someone much better would take his place. A girl can still dream, no?
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