About Me

My photo
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 :)

Thursday, February 23, 2012

Stranger #11



Stranger #11-

Meet Derrek Shuffield. Derrek is a Junior who is studying English, creative writing with a minor in philosophy. He grew up and lived in LA for 15 years of his life. Him and his father moved to Pennsylvania when his dad decided that he wanted to give up being a financial analyst to become a Pastor. Originally they moved to York, PA and Derrek hated it! He likes it way better around the Philadelphia area.

After graduating, Derrek plans to spend 2 years organic farming. He further explained that you farm for yourself, and the person that you work for. In return, you are able to eat the food, student loans are deffered, and since he is a vegetarian, he's extremely excited to experience this. After his organic farming experience, Derrek plans to spend a year with a non-profit organization called the Lama foundation. According to their website which I looked up to learn more of what Derrek was explaining to me, "Lama Foundation is: a community, a not-for profit organization, and a "spiritual home" to many. Our mission is to be both a sustainable spiritual community as well as an educational center dedicated to all spiritual paths. Situated about 20 miles north of Taos New Mecixo, on just under 110 acres at 8600 feet, Lama Foundation is almost completely surrounded by Carson National Forrest, giving one the feeling of being "way out there", or away from civilization. There are vistas, sunsets, pristine mountain-spring water, vegetarian cooking, and a wide variety of animals that share the mountain with the community."

When thanking Derrick for his time, and meeting him, he ended with "If I see ya around campus, ill say hi now!"

ah, mission accomplished, once again.  
Have a great day!

One more thing. I will be away in the mountains this weekend, but of course I will make sure to continue what I've been doing! My only problem may be service, and updating my blog. For those who have been following religiously, every day, I will try to update this thing if I can. If not, my strangers will be updated when I come home on Sunday!
Posted by at

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)