bus strike

I taught my first advanced english class this morning. Many of my students were late or didn´t come at all because almost all of the bus drivers are on strike today. As best I understand it, they´re upset because the police raised fines on bus drivers, my boss said from 100 soles to 200 soles. I asked if it was for things like speeding and he said yes and also for things like drunk driving. Oh, Peru. So it was hard to get a bus this morning but I got about six square inches of standing room on one that took me almost where I wanted to go. And on the way back I rode in an enterprising taxi driver´s car who was pretending to be a bus- calling out his route, packing in passengers and charging double bus fare instead of taxi fare. Now I am writing my travel articles. Ok, NOW I am.