First Time Being Homeless

On last Sunday I went into Waltham with Kian dressed as homeless men. We met at his house and planned out our costumes. I had on messed up pants, a hoodie, wind breaker, and a large hat so people couldn't exactly see my face. We both looked pretty homless. We also made cardboard signs asking for spare change. We then headed to the moody street area of Waltham. At first we where a little to scared to go out in public like homeless people. After a while of walking around the back streets, so we could get a feel for it, we went onto moody street and sat on a corner and just watched people.

As people walked by the gave us looks and didn't know what to make of two homeless kids sitting on the corner. Lots of people who were walking on our side of the street would cross over to the other side by the time they got close to us. People eating in the Upper Crust Pizza across the street would turn around and look. No one offered spare change but people watched and looked at us. I was a little worried that people knew we were just regular kids and acting homeless, but i think I was just being paranoid, they seemed pretty convinced.

For the next times we go out for our 5 hours we will go to other places, we are trying to save Boston for the last time we go out, but I don't think there are that many homeless people in the towns around here, so going to Boston would be a lot better because people would expect to see homeless people more and won't act so surprised. We were thinking the boston commons would be a good idea.

New Project

I teamed up with Kian in my class to do a project, I have left the previous idea I had and am now working with Kian. Kian had an idea that we dress up as homeless men and go into places like Boston, Waltham, and Natick and see what peoples reaction are to us.