First Impression of Overtown

This was the second journey to the school Phillis Wheatley.I went there in my car with Dayana and Karen, but we were following Dayle who was driving her car with Lazaro and Jose. First of all I have to say that we took another route to go there. We went across the Little Havana up to the Downtown and then we made a left and came across the Downtown-Over town area (the end of the downtown and the beginning of the Over town). When we got in to that area, everything changed; there were a lot of African-American people on the streets.The streets, were way different from the ones here around the school, and the houses were painted like in dark- blue and other dark colors. Everything was dirty, there were a lot of cars on the streets and I started getting scared. I was driving and we were listening Cuban music. When we get to this area of the city my first reaction was to turn off the music. Karen who was seated at the back started yelling at me to change the music and everything. She was really surprised and started to say "look at that"!!!, her behavior scared me even more. We got lost like two blocks from the school and on our way we could observe several homeless with shopping cars. I remember something funny happened that day that helped us to control our anxiety and made us laugh when we were most scared. Karen saw a little child playing with an umbrella and she said: "kid, go to school".