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I'm not doing this project to necessarily make new longterm friends, or go have a drink with these people. Nor is it to pass any judgements on ones life. My goal is to simply meet interesting, and maybe not so interesting strangers who I wouldve never taken the time to talk to otherwise. One that may differ, or perhaps relate to my own life. So many times, you walk past someone, and they wont even raise their head in the slightest to say hello. I'll never understand why. The challenge to myself is not only to surpass that simple hello with one person a day, but to convince them to look into my lens and tell me something about themselves. My name is Amanda Surkin, and this is my journey of meeting 100 new faces. Take the time to listen, you may learn something :)

Sunday, May 13, 2012

Stranger #91

Meet Hannah Berstein.



"I work with kids with mental disabilities. I teach art and music, and I go to Cedar Crest in Allentown. I'm majoring in Psych/Art Therapy. When I graduate, I want to work in a mental institution for teens, especially teens that suffer from drug use, or who are suicidal. I had a crazy past, and was in an institution, and they wouldn't let me draw at all. They were supposed to help, but they actually made it worse. I was into drugs, and I used to cut, but I eventually I finally realized that life is worth living. Trying to end your life is a permanent solution to a temporary problem!"- Hannah

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