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Wednesday 11:19 am

I can't believe I'm writing this, but a marching band just went past the house. I did take some audio, just because it felt so surreal.

As it gets closer to the election, I'm getting more comfortable with the sounds of screaming in the street strangely as it were. I mean, people are excited and as the 32 candidates pass out alcohol to their constituents to encourage them to vote their way, people are bound to get rowdy.

It does make me glad that I don't have anywhere in particular to be today.

Edit 11:41 am

I just walked up the road with my camera to see what, exactly, was going on and why it merited a marching band. And it turns out that it was... an AIDS march? Cars, in a processional, and people, all looking very somber, while some trumpets/trombones/drums played. Weeeiiird

Date: 2006-06-01 01:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] grysar.livejournal.com
So, is it something like the New Orleans style funerals?

Date: 2006-06-01 03:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] amalthya.livejournal.com
From the little I know of NOLA funerals (ie from movies) yea... like that.

Date: 2006-06-01 01:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] congogirl.livejournal.com
We used to see things like that in Kinshasa. Usually they were protests by groups of employees who hadn't received any pay.

Date: 2006-06-01 03:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] amalthya.livejournal.com
Apparently in Republic of Congo the crab people get together and flock to an office/house en masse, demanding money.

Sure, they don't have a trumpet but it's the same idea!

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