Journal 9

1. Description. What happened in your project this week? What did you do? Experience?
Well my project was probably the most uneventful day on Wednesday that I've had all year. Joyce needed some serious dishes done so I put on my gloves and my game face and got to work. I didn't get to interact much with the guests but sometimes I do what I gotta do. The next day took an interesting turn. As I walked in tension was in the air and a fight was bound to happen. I have never seen any of the guests get in any sort of disagreement but for some reason it was going down. Two guys started yelling and doing the typical male dominance circles around the room. Then they threw a few and Adam, one of the workers had to break it up. The cops were called and that ended. Later I was talking with Maurice, a really cool guest, and he wanted to use a back room to make a phone call in private. As I let him in another guest came up and started saying he was here all day. Maurice said he liked the place but the other guy proceeded to taunt him. At this point Maurice put down his stuff and put his guard up. I stepped in the middle of the two like some boxing ref trying to break it up and the guy started saying I had something against him, he just wasn't making sense. He was balling his fists at me and threatening to "kill me." Anyway to make a long story short he was drunk and I reminded him that one touch on me would be a life-long ban. He was thrown out for the night and everything after that was pretty routine.

2. Interpretation. What did you learn from your project this week? About the project? About the issue? About yourself?
Honestly I don't know. I'm trying to think of how something I saw or did contributes to my understanding of the project but I can't put it together. What I can say is that I may have come across a little harsh in my last post. I made it sound like they are all just lazy and take advantage of the system, which isn't true. There are many of them that hold down jobs but just can't make enough to get housing etc.

3. Evaluation. How would you evaluate your work on the project this week? What grade would you give yourself? Are you accomplishing the objectives of the project? Your personal objectives?
I to call up Beth and ask her some questions about where she sees the Listening House in the future and also if they have anything they wanted researched but haven't had the time/resources. I plan on doing that tomorrow and if that goes well then I have the rest of my project made (with about 60 more hours of work...of course). Anyway I would give myself an A this week. I didn't work on Chapter 3 like I wanted over the weekend but I was sick and that was out of my control.