quiz:what does the picture show?
1) lukow, browarna
2) warsaw, praga
3) lodz, anywhere
4) chicago, near garfield park conservatory
a real trick question, right?
i wandered off today somewhat to the south, it still says 300north, but it does feel like the south side near the uni of chicago. this time it's near the garfield park conservatory, an hour away from my place on a bus. an hour and a world away.
dunno, maybe the older the more comfortable i get but i kinda freaked out today, in the middle of a day! it didn't seem safe at all, and i don't actually know why i held my purse tighter and speeded up in my futile attempt to look confident passing countless groups of young blacks. i reckon there was no good reason to think this way, but still. the last time i seriously freaked out like that was over a year ago on a beach in india where i foolishly (easy to say after some time's passed) went out on my own to see the sunset, a freaking romantic soul, right. when i wandered off i came across a group of young indian kids, aged seven thru ten maybe, i said namaste trying to win them and it did work for a while but when i wanted to back off they started well... throwing stones at me, which i can assure you made my heart thump widely, nothing happened fortunately but that was the worst moment that comes to my mind when i think of india
the observatory itself made up for all my efforts of whizzing thru the neighborhood - it's big showcasing a lot of various plants, most of which i've already seen somewhere but not on such a large scale. i liked it and i'd surely like to go back, during a day, and maybe with a companion :) this time
quickening my pace in run-down neighborhoods and longing for a garden of my own, am i growing old, or what???
2) warsaw, praga
3) lodz, anywhere
4) chicago, near garfield park conservatory
a real trick question, right?
i wandered off today somewhat to the south, it still says 300north, but it does feel like the south side near the uni of chicago. this time it's near the garfield park conservatory, an hour away from my place on a bus. an hour and a world away.
dunno, maybe the older the more comfortable i get but i kinda freaked out today, in the middle of a day! it didn't seem safe at all, and i don't actually know why i held my purse tighter and speeded up in my futile attempt to look confident passing countless groups of young blacks. i reckon there was no good reason to think this way, but still. the last time i seriously freaked out like that was over a year ago on a beach in india where i foolishly (easy to say after some time's passed) went out on my own to see the sunset, a freaking romantic soul, right. when i wandered off i came across a group of young indian kids, aged seven thru ten maybe, i said namaste trying to win them and it did work for a while but when i wanted to back off they started well... throwing stones at me, which i can assure you made my heart thump widely, nothing happened fortunately but that was the worst moment that comes to my mind when i think of india
the observatory itself made up for all my efforts of whizzing thru the neighborhood - it's big showcasing a lot of various plants, most of which i've already seen somewhere but not on such a large scale. i liked it and i'd surely like to go back, during a day, and maybe with a companion :) this time
quickening my pace in run-down neighborhoods and longing for a garden of my own, am i growing old, or what???
2 comments:
awe, that's the west side, girl. Don't be too scared. Those fools out there aren't going to do anything. Its nothing like out south.
shooooooot, got it all mixed up, huh?
anyway, i will remember it next time i go
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