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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 :)

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Stranger #16


Stranger #16-

Today was a different type of day. Typically, when I approach someone, I ask them to tell me anything they want about themselves. The conversation doesnt really get turned around, and I'm all of a sudden being questioned. I have to admit, it makes for a great two-way conversation! It was awesome! When I told Anita who I was and about my project, she immediately asked me my field of study, and when I intended on graduating. I answered "I'm studying criminal justice and actually, I'm graduating this semester!" I dont know if it was her caring motherly tendencies kicking in, but as soon as I stated that I was graduating this semester, she asked me if I began the job search process, and if I've been submitting my resume to potential employers. At this very moment, I'm lucky if I could even find time to go on an interview! We spoke about my future goals for a good 15 minutes. I was given a lot of useful advice, but I wanted to hear what Anita had to say about her own life.

Meet Anita Washington. Anita has been a secretary at Arcadia for almost 21 years and works for 5 departments. She is currently a secretary for the religion, philosophy, music, modern languages, history and political science departments. She has a daugher who is getting married in November. and currently they're fighting with their church because they wont allow anyone to get married on a Sunday. I dont really know much about religion, because I dont practice any religion, but I told her I was actually shocked to hear this. I didnt know that you couldnt get married in a church on Sunday! See, ya learn something new everyday! She seemed to be surprised by it too, though! She told me that England just passed a law that people are able to wed at night, they were never permitted prior to this law! I asked her if her daughter was willing to switch the day, and she said that she really wanted to get married on this Sunday because the next day, Monday, happens to be Veterens day and her daughters grandfather was a buffalo soldier.

As I was packing up my things, and thanking Anita, she happened to see my engagement ring. It opened up a door of conversation about the story of her daughter and talking her fiance into trading in the ring he had bought her. Anita was a trip! She said her daughter knows all about diamonds and how much theyre worth and she was just not havin' the one that she was given to "walk around with for the rest of her life." What did she do? She made her fiance get her a new one! This story, in turn, got us talking about a hilarious episode of "Everybody Loves Raymond", but ill save that for another time!


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