Visit 3

Colin Burlingham
1/6/10
The Warm Shelter

_____Today I went on my second official visit to the Westerly Warm Shelter and I saw, helped and learned much. I got there at five, thirty and I instantly started to work; serving salad, refilling a Mexican casserole, and helping in any other way I could. The entire meal was a big success and the woman who made the food was told that it was, "the best meal I have ever had." The man who told her this was polite and he was wearing a green sweater. In addition, over winter break I was given a Princeton t-shirt by my cousin and while I was serving salad to one man, he started talking, telling me he went to Hartford Business School and then he said, "look where that's gotten me." I started feeling really bad for him because he was sad and very nice. Likewise, many people mere dressed normally and if I saw some of them on the street, I would not be able to tell they are poor or homeless. One of the men there had a black hat on and he had a scraggly mustache, but then there was a woman in a tan winter coat and a green shirt. One of the people there really stood out to me and he was wearing a big long sleeved green shirt with a small stain below the neck. I believe this visit has taught me more than the first one and I hope Fridays visit will be even better.