Yesterday, I was working in the "western addition" area of San Francisco. The city of San Francisco is made up of different parts because the city is so big. And each part got their own name by the diversity of the people and what the area looks like. Western Addition area is mainly all african-americans. Some parts of the area not so safe, and some parts of the area is ok. To make a long story short, I was in and out of meetings all day yesterday outside of the office. I only had about 45 mins to eat lunch, so I decided to get a quick bite to eat. Some weird "big" african american lady walks in and starts disturbing the people that were eating alone. Then she came up in my face (about 2 inches away) and asked me if she can ask me something, but then she's like "never mind." 5-10 seconds later I notice that my cell phone was gone. That lady TOOK my cell phone. I went out to get it back, I was so scared, I didn't know what to do. All I can think about is that I don't have any of my friends and family's numbers and I need it. So i stood up to her and asked for it back, then she decided that she wanted me to give her money for me to get MY CELL PHONE back. So I just said to her that she can talk to the cops, and I walked away. Then she called me back, and THREW my cell phone at me and it fell on the ground. THANK GOD it was ok and I'm ok, but I was still scared off my butt!
Sometimes things that you would never think about that would happen to you, it SOMETIMES WILL!!! Thank god I noticed my phone was gone.
As I went to one of my meetings, I met the lady there and she wasn't very "friendly" per se. She TRIED to be friendly when you can tell that she didn't want to be. My job was to simply ask her if it was ok for me to present myself to the seniors that come into her center, and do "events" with them. I'm taking my time out to try to do a "good deed" for her senior center, and she's not very welcoming. This job of mine seems like it's more challenging each time I set up a meeting. :( But I'm still going to try my best. I'm not going to give up. I hope to give you guys more information about this non-profit job as I gain more experience myself. :)
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2 comments:
excellent post. Keep it up. I cant believe that lady. Some people are just crazy. The world is so crazy. be careful.
you sticking up for yourself when you were so scared represents your courage under fire. It should prove to yourself you are strong. We are not always strong or confront things that we are scared of but sometimes we do and prevail. congrats to you on that moment in life.
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