Friday, May 30, 2008

My trip to Rockridge

My trip to Rockridge was good since we thought we might not get interviews since all the people are busy, but it was actually pretty good because there were people who were willing to talk to us about the safety in Rockridge since that was our topic from yesterdays interviewing. The people there were nice and really energetic and people wanted to learn more about what our project was about. Before I we went to Rockridge I thought that we weren’t going to get as much interviews as compared to other places since some people were busy walking fast not as many people outside, however there were a lot of small stores. The differences we saw between Rockridge and Fruitvale were that in Rockridge there are a lot of small shopping stores, also its more quite and seems like a much more safer neighborhood. What surprised me is that the people there were willing to get interviewed and even on video camera as compared to other places people did not want to get interviewed on videotape. Some of the similarities that Rockridge and Fruitvale share is that there are a lot of homeless people that are there and some people thought that homeless people not all of the homeless people that live there might do something because of the fact that they might be drunk and try to enter business stores and try to steal something or just enter the business stores that might say stuff to you and all the business store owners just ignore it.

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Friend

Talking about a friend, my friend is someone who is very loud always has something to say she's a short person with a good humor, she's a realistic person and says the truth even though you might not want to realize it. She says the craziest things and words that come out of her mouth before even thinking about it. She lives one block around the corner but we don't hang outside she's almost always out and acting. She likes to party a lot but she's calm when she wants to be when she's sad she's rreally quiet when shes mad she's really serious and doesn't feel the need to talk to no one. when she's happy she gets really jumpy and acts all hyper. Anonymous friend

Our trip to downtown Chinatown

At our trip to interview people in Chinatown was complicated since all the people there were really busy trying to get to there jobs and even store owners would tell us they were busy even though they were just relaxing taking a sip of their coffee. We went to the plaza and tried to ask the people that were there since they were just sitting down and relaxing. There were only girls in my group including me and we didn’t even get a female interviewed except for three males and made up a conversation and asked if they could be interviewed and responded with a yes. One of the males was one who use to come to the same school that we attend today. We asked them about how they feel about the food there and which was the most common. Before we even went there we had the feeling that people were going to be busy since at this time people are at there jobs and students at their schools. The differences that we saw between Chinatown and Fruitvale were that we did get both females and males time to get interviewed at Fruitvale while at Chinatown we only had interviews from males. One of the similarities we saw between Fruitvale and Chinatown was that we only had a few interviews from three to four people. Something that surprised us about Chinatown was seeing a person that use to attend our school, and that we didn’t get a single female to get interviewed.

Thursday, May 22, 2008

Our Journey to Fruitvale


On our journey going to Fruitvale was really complicated since almost none of the people wanted to be interviewed. It was much more easier at Walnut Creek and they were much more nicer and had time for us meanwhile in Fruitvale people were busy trying to get to their jobs. Something that I learned was that in Walnut Creek there is not much diversity and in Fruitvale there is. The people in Fruitvale were really shy and even a lady that was selling Fruit, which at first did let us interview her then she got really shy and red and we told her that it was okay and we left. We were even nice and we didn't approach the people their in a bad manner, but I guess the way we introduced our selves wasn't right since some of the people their didn't understand the reason of why we were their. Some of the positive things were that we changed the way we approached people and tried to make up a conversation and the way we introduced ourselves to people and we finally got three interviews and the people their were really positive about it. Some of the negative aspects about Fruitvale were that people just said no in a bad manner. People there were busy. What I learned about my topic at Fruitvale was that our community is healthy but the fast-food restaurants surrounding us is bad and make us realize that the only thing that is bad is our eating habits. Also we need to pay more attention to the people that have disabilities such as the people in wheel chairs by having more ramps in the sidewalks.

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Welcome!

Hello, Cinthia! Welcome to blogger!