Date: 25 October 2008
Climate: Raining, cold, wet, dark, gloomy
Location: Temple University, North Philadelphia, PA
I am in North Philadelphia, PA. This is one of the roughest, scariest areas but it is also a college area. Temple University is located here and while it is in a rough neighborhood, once on campus you can completely escape the dangers of this area. I am on Diamond and Broad Street looking at a gas station and i see a few dying small trees and thats it. There are very few birds and a few squirrels on the opposing side of the street to me. The people here look very different from the people at Willamette. The styles are very different and the attitudes are very different. Here, people are rough and while they may be very nice once you get to know them, they are used to the street gangs imposing themselves on your everyday life. This is not somewhere that one would want to be alone or out at night. I just saw about 5 police cars go by, but only 3 with their sirens on. There is almost no nature around here. On the campus however, there is a yard and there are things to allow the students to not have to go out onto the streets at all. There is a big grassy area that reminds me of the quad and a fountain. Things that one would never know existed unless they walked onto the tightly secured campus.
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