Okay, I'm discovering so much more than how it is to live off $21 worth of food stamps for one week! It's really not "that bad" as I meed it seem towrads the beginning of the week.
On my way to work this morning I was on the phone with my mother once again. Somehow, we got on the subject of this class experiment and she started flashing back to her childhood in the early 1970s. My grandmother was a single mother of three children and had no financial support from my grandfather (they were legally married but was seperated, he was in New Jersey and she was in Florida). My mother whent on to talk about how hard it was growing up. The neighborhood they lived in was not that bad, but it was a tight-nit community where people looked out for each other. When it was time to eat, everyone ate! My grandmother worked very hard at her minimum wage jobs to support her and her three kids and while she was at work, she did not have to worry about a baby sitter because everyone in the neighborhood looked out for each other.
Another one of my discoveries today was one of the local housing projects. While out doing my homevisits in this particular low-income area, I noticed how nice, well kept and quiet it was. It was around noon-time and most people may think (stereotype as our weekly discussion details) there to be "welfare queens" sitting on on the stoop yelling at their children running around in a diaper. That was not the case. Were they at work?!?! Passed out sleep inside?!?! Who knows. But I'm thankful for taking part in this experiment because it has opened my eyes to soooo many things!
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