Townships

Today we visited a couple townships and it was very depressing to see. I have known that these places existed but it was another thing to actually experience it. It was a jammed packed area of shacks with dogs and little children all around. The hardest part was the fact that this neighborhood is in the middle of a rich area. You have a beautiful city with nice buildings and homes nestled between mountains and ocean and then you have these areas with horrible poverty. It is hard to understand why this happened and is not an easy thing to experience. It is hard to put it all into words and am still a little shocked. Tomorrow is the first day we are doing our service learning so I am excited to work with children and help those communities that need so much. And to those in Minnesota most people were complaining of it being too hot here today, i think it got up to 90.