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Current mood:  amused
Category: School, College, Greek
There is no way to really put it all into words. I'll start by beginning at the end, and then going through the whole day and ending it once again. I'm currently sitting by my computer eating a kraut dog from the big W tizel. The last place i was at was in el monte. I was traveling up and down hills looking for where my teacher was born since I missed the first stop on the L.A. extra credit assignment. Finally arriving at the location I took a picture of the address of where my teacher was born, and my camera died. What a odd way to end my day. The drive home from there wasnt too bad, I got to talk to my friends dad about his past relationships with women when he was younger and share some of my own experiences. Amazing how times have changed. This morning I woke up with my phone ringing to get my best friend john up, I of course just told him to go to work (since he works for me, I need him covering or i'm in deep shit) So I made sure he was sorta up before falling back to sleep. I woke up about 9:00am, wondered around and my friends dad was already up of course, he made me help his friend who was here this morning toss a couch, and book case into his truck to be taken to the dump. Then I headed to make sure the clothes were switched in the dryer and did that sorta thing so I had underwear, and clothes for today. I then showered up, put on my cream for the "scabies" and combed my hair, brushed my teeth and headed out. We first started out on the freeway 10E, and we passed the first stop, My teachers house he grew up in/was born into. We continued to whatever we could think of was close, and it all worked out. We passed the first street we always needed, made 1 billion U-turns, and here we are, eatting the W-tizel. We went to "grand market", we saw a guy who was talking on his wireless phone on his ear, only he didnt own a phone, or the ear peice. We saw all sorts of culture at the market, anything from korean, chinese, japanese, mexican, mongolian, egyption, and even persian/iran. My friends dad, got mogolian, I got chinese both were pretty crappy food, but we had fun of course. We went through the fashion district right before that and little tokyo that was pretty fun. It wasnt that busy because it was sunday of course. We saw "angels flights" the pretty much tran that went up a few stories, seemed pointless to me, but was a part of our history =D. After that we went to Watts, near compton, saw the housing projects and also some other things. The people on the streets here looked angry that we were in a car, and in their neighborhood. I saw alot of Blacks in watts near watts tower. It was intresting but not really my cup of tea. The people didnt seem nice around there, and it was pretty much a the worst part of that city possible. After that we headed to marina del ray, we went there saw the yachts (boats) and such, it felt a little more comferable there because it wasnt a whole population of people who hated me, (mexicans, blacks, and anyone who lived there) It was more layed back, and rich. After that we traveled to veince beach, it wasnt all I thought it could be. Was sort of disappointing, it was a decent looking area like newport beach, but had a poor mentallity. I liked the people there, but saw I had nothing in common with any of them. I'm totally making this essay focused on race and the feeling towards others if you cant already tell. It's not really an Essay but my own opinion's and views of what I did today. So please dont be affended i'm being as negitive towards people I saw/met today as possible. Anyways, after we headed to UCLA, saw rodeo drive and went down into a jewish part of town, where people were wearing fancy clothes, and diamonds and drove the richest cars ever. I totally saw so many cars i'll never own in my life that I probably would love too. In the rich area (rodeo) there was alot of shopping, and where there is shopping there is asians, mostly japanese, they have the money, they love shopping why not! I saw alot of tourist that were japanese. Probably more japanese there then in little tokyo. So on the way in the jewish area (not exactly sure but we drove) I saw jewish schools, people with those standard beards, and hats man they rock so hard sporting thier religion with such attitude that even I felt good seeing it. (love those curly sideburns that hang down) After that we totally went mac athur park and saw a whole park of people. I was astonished, I've never seen a park near me that full of people actually doing something there. Even if it was bums sleeping, mexicans having parties, whites walking, blacks socializing it was a totally awesome place because I saw every race tied into one and it wasnt an extremely hostile environiment. At night it's probably another story, but by this time in my trip it was about 4:30pm, and we were ready to head out. After that we headed out and went to the last stop my teachers house where he grew up, it was a long hill up, in a bad area with tagging everywhere. Overall it was a pretty bad area, filled with what I would make out to be a mexican population.
Grand central market - lots of diversity, it was a really neat place to go, lots of fruit everywhere/veggies, and tons of places to eat. Yet the food I ate wasnt that good, so maybe i'll try something else next time.
Watts - mostly black community, scarey place feelings are unsettled there.
Marina del ray - More of the rich area, scared of moron drivers more than people doing actual physical damage to me.
Veince beach - some itailans mostly mexican/white population mixed with all other races. Easy to move around, not really frieghtening.
jewish place - Really felt like home, people were nice, tourist were rude and couldnt wait. bakery was good.
UCLA - Great people, college students, people there are more well off, but also searching to broaden their minds.
rodeo drive - Rich people, nice cars, never scared or feeling of people going to attack me. (like they'd get away with attacking me anywhere, i'd just round house kick them to the face like chuck norris and own them.)
beverly hills - Nice houses, too little of land. Me and my friends dad discussed this, it's nice to own a masion but dont you need a lawn? (yes yes, some places do have lawns)
little tokyo - nice quiet area, no one really *mad dogged you* no one really was there for conflict, pretty peaceful.
korea town - didnt really stop by, it just looked like another neighborhood near my house, but with more korean/spanish writing on the buildings. Those koreans are pretty smart business men.
I probably didnt cover everything, because i'm 1) lazy, and 2) tired of typing already. I'll upload some pictures soon, and put a link to it. Enjoy this reading, and remember, nothing is what it seems.
Jason Gibson
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