On Tuesday, a few people from a shelter volunteered to come to our class to be interviewed by the students of photography class. What I had expected to hear was basically the lives of these people as they grew up homeless, how they got to that situation, and how they came out of it. I knew it was going to be an interesting day.
On Tuesday, three people came along with an extra person who came a little bit after as well as two people who work for the shelter. They introduced themselves and explained what they do for these people. Basically no matter what the situation may be, they will not deny any help to anybody coming in for help. It was very interesting to hear some of the background of the shelter. After awhile, the students were put into groups of four with one of the four volunteers and discussed the topic about being homeless by sharing experiences, comments and questions. For our group it became very interesting.
The individual that we were having a conversation with shared his experience. It was about someone changing and picking the “easy” life which then led him to trouble. After awhile his children was born, he started to become a different person and began top see things differently leading to a great job and a great father-son/daughter relationship. I found it interesting because the one thing that caused him to start making bad decisions was his experience of his mother and father divorced, living with his step-father who he felt hatred for. Then once he found drugs as “easy money” he chose the path of destruction that lead him to homelessness. But there was one thing that he said that I absolutely loved. He said that after awhile of realizing what he was doing wrong, he said “When I take one step, God is taking two steps with me.”
Simply put it was a great experience for everyone I'm sure and hearing these different opinions as well as experiences was very interesting.
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