Refection: Alameda

Yesterday we went to Alameda for almost the whole day. There it was way different then here in Oakland; the sidewalks, the streets, the shops, the restaurants, and the people were all different. The streets were different because they had little lights to warn the cars that there were people about to cross. The sidewalks had cracks and gum like in Oakland but the sidewalks were bigger and had trees on every single sidewalk. Another thing that some sidewalks had is a bush near the streets. The shops were different too. There were a lot of shops and some restaurants as you walked down the sidewalks of Alameda. In Alameda I mostly saw Caucasians, but I did see Latinos and African Americans.

After we did our interviews we got to go to the beach so we all took the bus there. When we got to the beach, it was windier. We got to play there for like an hour. My friends and me took a little walk, and then we took off our shoes to walk along the edge of the water. The water felt good; it wasn’t hot or cold, it was perfect. Then we decided to let our feet get dry so we could wipe the sand off, so we sat down and talked while we were waiting. Yesterday was a really fun day, I really liked it because I’ve been to the beach before but I haven’t gone to the beach after the Point Reyes trip.

What do you NOT like about Oakland?

Something I don't like about living here in Oakland is that I don't feel safe walking around on my own, specially when I'm wearing a little bit of red, or blue. One day when I was walking with my aunt and cousins there were two females standing with their mom and we passed by and as I walked away they said "scrap" I didn't really care because I'm not a "scrap" but I didn't like it because just because I was wearing some dunks that had blue with white and yellow they are going to start calling me a "scrap". I just walked away ignoring them like always because why was I going to get mad over something that I'm not. Another thing that I don't like about Oakland is that there's too much violence going on. My friend was telling me that one day he was walking home from school and that someone popped out of no where and started to attack him. He said he just pulled out a pencil from his pocket and put it against the guy's neck and the guy just said it was his bad and he just left. He also said that he was so close to his house; he lives in the 70's.

Lake Merrit:Reflection

While we were at Lake Merrit we went paddle boating. It was fun and easy because we had three people in one boat. We got to choose the people so I choose to be with two of my friends. We tried to crash into some of the guy's boat but we couldn't because they kept paddling away from us. When we got tired of paddling we just stopped and stayed in the water talking about how we didn't wanted to get on the boat and how much fun we were having. We laughed for a long time then we got tired of that too. When we were still on the water we wanted to get out because the sun was hot.