oh no

I got a voicemail message this morning from my friend Pat from Houston who was asking if the French violence was near us. I then decided to check the online news and was pretty surprised to see that the protest we were in the midst of yesterday did indeed turn violent.

The majority of the crowd had gathered in the main square and was making a lot of noise so we thought the marching was over. But along the path that we were planning to take home, there was another march. People were carrying red flags with a white crescent and we remarked that we thought it strange that they weren't the typical flags that others carried.

As the protesters approached the square, the crowd started whistling. Paul mentioned that whisting (in France) is a form of booing. I got kinda nervous and said "lets get the heck outta here ... I don't have a good feeling about this."

Good decision. Read here.