Protest time

Today, I met up with Andrea, who I try to meet up with once a week.  She's a Czech woman who is out of college, but she's thinking about going back to school since she hates her job.  Today, we met a little earlier than planned because she had to go to a demonstration for work.  She works for the government or something, I don't really completely understand her job.  After she helped me a little bit with Czech, she asked me if I wanted to go with her to the protest thing.  It was about something to do with the forests and cutting down trees in the Czech Republic, so I said sure.  It's not an issue that I really care about either way, sure I like forests and all, but I follow politics less here than I do at home and I barely watch news at home.  So, for me, this was just a chance to see what protests are like in Prague.  Since it was mostly people who work in the forests and it's not at all an international issue, they whole thing was in Czech, so I didn't know what was going on at all.  There were maybe one hundred people there at the most, so it was a really small demonstration.  Everyone there was so calm.  It was so cool.  When I think of protests, most of the time I think about thousands of obnoxious people gathering a yelling about issues in DC.  Sure, at this one there was some yelling, but it wasn't bad.  There was only one side of the debate present, so there weren't any fights at all.  But for some reason, there were probably thirty cops there.  When we first got there, there were more cops than protesters, which I thought was kind of funny.  Three different news crews showed up, which is funny considering they were only representing two different stations that show channels.  After the demonstration in front of whatever building we were in front of, they started marching somewhere.  I walked with them for a while, but then we all passed the metro station, so Andrea and I left to catch the train.  Even though I have no idea what the protest was really about, I'm hoping that I can find some news article about it sometime soon, so I can figure out what was going on at the time.  I'm really upset that I didn't bring my camera with me today.  I didn't think that I would need it for my Czech lesson, guess I should have known.  Maybe there will be some cool pictures online from the news groups there soon.  We'll see what happens.