Wednesday, May 20, 2009

The Panhandle

So looking at the city from the prospective of someone who lives here (strange how strikingly different it is) I am very humbled with the sheer diversity of people here. It's almost terrifying. I'm kind of amused at how at ease I feel at HPU, but when thrown into a new social situation I find myself hiding away at the house.

But I went running today because, honestly, it gets really boring sitting around. Where I live there is a park nearby, well, two parks divided by a highway really. The big one is the Golden Gate Park, which is a huge chunk of greenery (somewhat analogous to Central Park, but larger (atleast length wise. I could easily be wrong about this but the park is huge) with a smaller park that is a block wide and maybe 12? blocks long. It's called the panhandle because of it's narrowness and being tangent to the Golden Gate Park. I ran down the park, then back up and was completely amazed at a few things.

There were A LOT of people out. Just hanging out at the park, drinking beer, playing cornhole (CORNHOLE?! IN SF! hilarious) and walking their dogs or whatever. SHEER MASSES of people. Even more interesting was how they were grouped up into sort of smaller communities. I ran by about 7 little mini-parties of people hanging out in the park shooting the shit on a saturday.

How cool is that?! It's as if being in a city causes most people to gravitate toward nature. I never see much of this where I live due to the fact that nature sort of permeates everything. The people watching opportunity in this city is purely awe inspiring.

I should really get a camera so I can post pictures on this as I continue to blog. Oh well.

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