The poor Louvre on strike.
I get in to the Louvre free because I'm an EU resident under 26 years old, so I go there often. Thank you, socialist party. Yesterday, I got to the Louvre, and it was on strike. And apparently, the entire museum/monument system is on strike in Paris. Versailles, Centre Pompidou, D'Orsay -- they're all striking some time soon. I was disappointed, except for the fact that it was funny to complain and shake heads in disapproval with an old French man.
But then, I shouldn't have been so surprised. French people love their grèves, or strikes. In the short time I've been in Paris, I've seen so many strikes, each strike is like a little cultural tourist sight. The second day I got here, there was a strike on education in front of the Hotel de Ville. There's been like ten strikes by metro employees, each time forcing me to walk. People in my French class are 20 minutes late every strike, and the professor is so used to strikes she doesn't care if you show up an hour late. There's gay rights strikes, farmer strikes, postal worker strikes that delayed my package like three weeks...all kinds of strikes. Which makes me believe we need to go on strike more. Hello, we have way worse problems than they do.
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