686: Umbrellas Up
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It's nearly two in the afternoon when we reached Jennifer's family's apartment. She's just gotten up. She's still eating a very late breakfast. I'll finish my noodles and I'll start packing. With my co-worker, Emmanuel Berry, and we're at a quiet working class neighborhood in the part of Hong Kong, it's called New Territories. It's a Sunday. So Jennifer's getting ready to do what she does every weekend, what she did yesterday in fact. That's why she slept late. She's going to a protest with a little backpack. So this is the bag that you should bring. So this is a maroon bag. It's a very small one. We have to keep everything light. So I always have a bottle of water and many tissues. I have to bring a lot of tissues because we need to wipe our eyes when there is tear gas. And because I know how to do first aid, I always bring my first aid kit. The first aid kit is going to zip up bag with roller bandages and gauze and gloves and stuff to sterilize a wound. Jennifer started in the volunteer ambulance corps in seventh grade and has used all this stuff with demonstrations. She packs her wallet and her air pods. Because I have to listen songs. Two batteries for her phone because she's on it constantly doing protests, checking the continuously updated online maps that show where the police are and show escape routes. She packs a black T-shirt. The uniform in the Hong Kong protesters is black shirt, black pants, surgical masks to disguise her identities. Jennifer, by the way, is not her real name. But for the bus ride to the protest, she doesn't wear her uniform. She was a striped moon shirt. Yeah, I wear a normal T-shirt when I go out so that no one can identify I'm going to protest. And sometimes I bring makeup so that I can transform myself after the protest. How do you transform yourself? Like, what's that? I bring foundation, first of all, but I can do everything. How different are you going to look with that foundation? It looks like you're not going to protest, because girls who are going to protest, they barely do make up. But if girls doing make up, they're probably meeting someone. And so I bring this one and then, of course, I bring my brow pencil because it really can make you look like another person. I was very important, I agree. Yeah. And I bring lipstick. Sorry, it's a ferrous mower. So we're in your room, your room has pink walls, and there is a bunk bed with the bed on the top and a desk underneath it.
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