After 18 difficult days, Hamsa finally heard the news that he and his fellow protesters had been waiting for.
“When President Mubarak said, ‘I’m stepping down as the President of Egypt’ we didn’t believe him. But then we checked the news, and heard that it was true, and then we felt that God has helped us finish this.”
There were major celebrations after Mubarak left.
Sohaib was ecstatic: “I was so happy and excited, I kept hugging people everyone. Anybody I met in the street, I just hugged.”
Salma’s father returned from the field hospital unhurt. Salma says that overcoming Mr Mubarak was difficult but she is so glad that they managed it and says she feels proud to be Egyptian.
Revolution at school
Inspired by their experiences in Tahrir Square, these students are now organising their own revolution. They have come up with a list of demands for how they want their school to be improved.
In the spirit of the revolution, their head teacher agreed to meet some of the students’ demands when they returned to school in February:
“The day after we came back to school we called a meeting with the students and told them we would make some concessions,” he said.
