Chavez won. By 61% or something. I have to admit that yesterday when I was watching the counting of the votes with my room mate and her boyfirend I could not help hoping that Rosaes would win. But oh well, life goes on. Like a Venezuelan friend of mine wrote to me (in an sms) last night after the results had been presented on TV: "What the hell, our lives don´t depend on on that". Even though some see more like "Venezuela is going to hell". One of my trainee friends said that this is better for us trainees, things will remain the same and there won´t be any problems.
It wasn´t too bad staying inside yesterday. I read, drew a picture of my red converse trainees, slept, read a shortstory, and watched the elections. There seemed to be some problems with people who wanted to vote after the voting places (there must be a better word for this) had been closed. The places were supposed to close at four, unless there were people outside in line waiting. By the way, here people stand in line for hours to vote. When I turned on the TV at 6 p.m. it seemed that some places closed the doors even if there were people in line outside, waiting to vote. And very soon after the doors were closed, the people supporting Rosales were requesting to count the votes themselves - foreseeing that Chavez would win or that there would be some shenanigans with the counting of the votes.
Today I woke up and listened to the sounds coming from the street below. Everything sounded normal. I turned on the light in order to see whether we have electricity or not and went to the bathroom to see if we have running water. Everything worked. I talked to some friends in Caracas on msn and they went to work today as usual cause everything was calm. I´ll stay inside today just in case and casue I have promised to do so (also, I haven´t received any invitations to go out). Tomorrow I´m going to work - like planned.
Now I´m gonna go and check out the Finnish newspapers to see how they´ve written about the elections.
It wasn´t too bad staying inside yesterday. I read, drew a picture of my red converse trainees, slept, read a shortstory, and watched the elections. There seemed to be some problems with people who wanted to vote after the voting places (there must be a better word for this) had been closed. The places were supposed to close at four, unless there were people outside in line waiting. By the way, here people stand in line for hours to vote. When I turned on the TV at 6 p.m. it seemed that some places closed the doors even if there were people in line outside, waiting to vote. And very soon after the doors were closed, the people supporting Rosales were requesting to count the votes themselves - foreseeing that Chavez would win or that there would be some shenanigans with the counting of the votes.
Today I woke up and listened to the sounds coming from the street below. Everything sounded normal. I turned on the light in order to see whether we have electricity or not and went to the bathroom to see if we have running water. Everything worked. I talked to some friends in Caracas on msn and they went to work today as usual cause everything was calm. I´ll stay inside today just in case and casue I have promised to do so (also, I haven´t received any invitations to go out). Tomorrow I´m going to work - like planned.
Now I´m gonna go and check out the Finnish newspapers to see how they´ve written about the elections.
posted by Larubia at 8:16 AM
1 Comments:
"polls" that's the word.
Crummy you had to stay in, but at least you didn't miss another fashionista party!
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