Umbrella Movement

Background:
The student body planned for a boycott of school in response to the lack of democracy in this city which was prided for her freedom. Hong Kong is indeed a very special city, one which is currently not 100% under the rule of any country.

What started as a series of lectures on democracy, conducted around the Admiralty area where the central government offices, slowly became what we knew as the Umbrella Movement, which then dragged on over the rest of the whole university academic semester.

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So anyways, being the foreign students that we are, Janelle and I headed over to kaypoh how the situation was like. There are real time live broadcasts online, but one can only feel the passion of the protestors when they are sharing the same space.

Since the roads are mostly blocked and public transport re-routed (some train station exits are blocked by protestors and there were instances where the train boycotted the particular station), we decided to walk all the way from Sheung Wan to the protest area. (Most public transport bounded eastwards will u-turn at Sheung Wan or Central to avoid the protest area).

We were caught in a heavy downpour but we saw that the protestors were still singing to keep their morale up. Of course, there were many policemen peppered around each small section of the route and also curious tourists trying to figure out what is happening.

There are many opinions over the movement. All I had in mind was to hope that it will never end as it did as the 1989 Tiananmen Square Protest.