Then yesterday there was only 1 person with a cardboard overtop of him...
And today there were none, only some bits of foam and cardboard.
This is a back alley sort of area, not very sketchy, but run down, and given that there are people on the street in a few more high profile spots I am not sure if they were asked to leave...or simply moved on of their own accord.
But it really got me thinking about what street life is like in San Jose, and well Costa Rica...it kinda made me want to look up a shelter and volunteer...although I am not sure this is possible given my location and work...
An ad on a bus stop in San Jose , it is talking about a shelter in the downtown area...oddly, I don't think our ads are this obvious.
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I know it wasn't your intent or anything, but the picture you painted of those men, the make-shift shelters, and the way they slowly disappeared really got to me. I can't imagine what it would be like to have to live like that...and the kind of isolation you would feel as a result. I mean...I feel cut off from everything, sometimes lonely, and sometimes down living out here...but I've got a roof over my head, and a family and friends that care (even if they're far far far away). I can't imagine what it would be like to feel I'd been completely abandoned to face something like that.
And I probably just reeled off the most trite and useless comments ever...but I guess trite and useless is where my mind is tonight. Sorry.
PS: Sorry if this double posts. Internet is being wacky...and it says it didn't the first time...
I know I have said this before..but I highly recommend reading ´the glass castle´
http://www.bookbrowse.com/reviews/index.cfm?book_number=1560
it is very well written and based on what I heard from the guys at the shelter very insightful into the mentality.
Outside of that I can say that in my experience in Canada...there is a whole other culture and for some people it would be way more lonely to leave it...a lot of people did not want to give up that life...and althoguh a lot of people didn´t choose it, there were a lot of people who were exactly where they wanted to be. I am not saying that they liked not having food or a roof...but in terms of beliefs and ideals and ways of life that they did not want to sacrifice they were happy.
I hope that makes sense. And again I am not saying it is easy.
As for the three guys here..lol...this week there were 4 people on Tuesday and then 5 on Wednesday adn none on Thursday...I think they make the rounds of a number of haunts...it happened back in Hamilton too...we had¨´shelter hoppers´
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