One week later...

So now that i understand more:
Basically the teachers allow us to lock them out because they are also against the reform and want to let us protest against it. butttttt they have to pretend a little to not let us because technically its illegal and they could get in trouble, but if you scroll up i wrote something about how the police came and bascally congratulated us on the occupation soooo really everyone secretly wants us to protest, but has to pretend they dont. what a country!
A bit on the reform:
The reform is a bill THAT WAS PASSED on tuesday that takes government funding from the public schools and gives it to the private schools. everyone is extremely insane upset (clearly) and there are protests everywhere, but especially in Rome becasue thats where all this is going down (capital city, what up). There are many many many protests like this going on with all the liceos (high schools) but also a ton with the universities in rome. but those protests are like ours and arent as exciting to tell you all about. they just march with big banners and yell catching slogan-type things.
How this week went:
Monday we decided we wanted an occupation at an assembly lead by the student representatives. tuesday we blasted music in the gym, there was a soccer tournament, everyone was running around the school like crazy and we blockaded stuff. wednesday was basically the same, i played basketball and everyone thought i was really good, which is a joke. and my favorite part of wednesday was this kid who was in a stolen grocery cart rowing himself around the gym with a broken PVC pipe. thursday there was an assembly where one of the student representatives gave a longggg speech on why we were occupied. friday was cleanup day so none of the older kids went to school, only the primi and secondi (basically freshmen and sophmores) went and cleaned stuff. hahahahaa suckerssss. then next monday we dont have school becasue they have to "disinfect" the school. then tuesday night is a BIG discotecha night for everyone because the 8th is immacolata concezione (immaculate conception) and we dont have school, after the 8th youre allowed to celebrate christmas. on the 8th im leaving for napoli with some other foreign exchange students and well be there for five days.

basically to me, this system makes more sense. its so facinating to me how incredibly insane this country is but it all seems to work. people park on sidewalks, lock their teachers out of school, bring their dogs inside the mall, build streets around hundred year old trees, SWEEP leaves, and get to drive and drink at the same age. to an american none of this makes sense, but over here, it works.