2nd Quarter Project Summary

As I mentioned in my last post Kian and I decided to do the "homeless thing" again but this time we would be better prepared and be more out in the open. We thought of the perfect place to try it out again, we went to the Boston Commons. Last time we were pretty nervous and not sure what to really do, this time we had a better feel for it. We planned a little longer this time and made sure that we had the best costumes we could come up with. Once we go to Boston and parked we made sure no one saw us getting out in our homeless clothes, as it would give us away. Once on the Commons we wondered around for a bit and ended up sitting down on the ground. We had a cup out for change and watched as people went by, but didn't say to much at first. Most people never gave us a second look, and if they did it was to make sure they avoided us. However a few people gave us some change and said god bless, and things of that nature. By the end of the day we had actually gotten something like 8.25 in change. There was one exception to the "avoiders" and the people who gave us change, this man called us out on not being homeless. At first I didn't know what to say, but the man was relaxed about it, he wasn't mad but was letting us know that he knew. We kinda got into a conversation with him and he told us he had gotten into some hard drugs when he was our age and ended up dropping out of high school. He had bad luck with jobs and it didn't help that he said he wasn't really motivated to work either. Throughout the conversation I was thinking, and surprised at how calm, and nice he was, he wanted to share his life story and didn't mind talking to two random kids pretending to be homeless. In the end we found out he was in his thirties, when Kian and I had guessed he must of been at least 60. I guess being homeless makes you look a lot older then you actually are.