Manifestazione.

Yesterday there was a nationwide protest. There were over 10,000 participants in my city. The prime minister of education passed a reform, which was approved by Congress Wednesday, that cuts money from public schools. It also threatens to lessen hours of Latin and Greek, and increase hours of math in the Classics schools... essentially converting them to the scientific schools. It also presents the idea of one teacher per class in elementary schools, instead of a different teacher for every subject, which would result in thousands upon thousands of teachers getting laid off. Also on Wednesday, Congress passed another law giving private schools much larger sums of money... so basically taking money from the public schools and handing it to the private. So obviously, just about everyone was outraged. The strike yesterday was the largest protest my city's ever seen. Everyone had signs, and the parade participants were as young as elementary schoolers, and also included parents and teachers. It was a really awesome experience to be a part of. It started pouring rain a couple of hours in and everyone pulled out umbrellas, creating a massive shield that extended down the streets for miles. Even if you weren't holding your own umbrella, you weren't getting wet, because every other person was holding one above you. It must have been an interesting sight for all of the on-lookers from apartment buildings above.

I saw this at the store last night. American style pizza by Big Americans. I don't know about you, but I've never seen a pizza in America with corn on it. Oh well.

Uhm. Seeing High School Musical 3 in theatres tonight (opening night in Italy). Can you say "stoked"?

And also. Italy needs to celebrate Halloween. Have fun tonight. :[