Québec, my beautiful country, was hit with the Charest syndrome. We all have a cold now.

The strike here in Rimouski started on February 29^th 2012, a day, I will always remember since it was the start of the “school of life”. I think I changed a lot during those 5 weeks and I’m still changing. Many things happened during those 5 weeks and it was such an amazing experience in my life. I really liked to go to demonstrations and to sing slogans with my friends and other students that I didn’t know and that had the same goal as me.

It feels nice to think that I was part of history, because we made history. We were 200 000 in the streets of Montreal on March 22^nd, it was the biggest demonstration in the history of Canada. In Rimouski, we had the longest strike of the history of the Cégep of Rimouski, in the past, the strike only lasted for 2 weeks.

I’m proud of what we did and if I could change only one think, it would be to be more involved in the strike and the actions that were planned. I’ve met so many people during the strike, all of us were joining hands to achieve our goal: stop the increase. Now, we have a new goal, we still want to stop the increase, but we also want to change our society and our government who is corrupted and unable to govern.

I strongly believe that everybody who was involved in the strike have learned many things, because it was my case, I’ve learned a lot.

I’ve learned a lot about life.

I’ve learned a lot about myself.

I’ve learned a lot about our society.

I’ve learned a lot about politics.

I’ve learned how to speak my mind about something and to give my opinion.

I’ve learned what real respect is.

I’ve learned to think as a citizen of the province of Quebec.