I have my ticket to Pisa!!! YAY!!! I fly out September 2nd from Stanstead in London at 6:30am! As this means I need to be at the airport by 4;30 and public transport doesn't start running that early I am going to check in the night b/4 and sleep at the airport woohoo! haha that was slightly sarcastic.
Anyhow the outrage....
So I went into town last night with this bloke who is also staying at the house..my Great Uncles wife's grandson..haha so no relation to me as this wife is not the one I was related to. Any how you don't need to hear about my complicated family tree. So Stephan and I went out and we started by going into a fairly easy going looking pub. It was a bit quietish but we enjoyed our selves. Then we decided to hed up the road to a more American type bar place (It was cramped, seedier looking, and noisy :) ). As we were walking along the road I spied a young woman with her knees to her chest crying I couldn't leave her so I went up and asked if she was ok..then ensues her story. She told me she had gone in to buy some food from a place and when she placed her stuff (pretty much everything she owned..a sleeping bag, a little pillow, and all of her money 50quid (gbp) )down and turned to put some extra things on her sandwich someone nicked her bag. Also in her bag was a badge and photo idea which licensed her to be a vendor of a magazine which she was selling to make some money. So now she has to find 8quid to replace the badge and she is freezing. I gave her 5 quid coz that was what I had and as my friend and I are standing there three young lads (about 12) came along on bikes, they had gone off to buy her a blanket.
My friend and I carried on our way but I couldn't stop thinking about her so I let my friend go into the pub and I popped back to the atm to grab some more money. I went back and gave her a tenner...she was so very grateful and told me she was hoping to get 25quid to stay in a hostel so I gave her my other tenner. She was over joyed at my kindness and I was curious. So I asked her her story.
Why is she homeless?
Well she had be shunted from foster care to foster care when she was little and at 16 she found her mum and started living with her unfortunately last august her mum died of complications with her lungs. Because she had not been on the lease at least 6mo prior to her mum dying she had 28 days to bugger off. Because her mum had been ill she had not had a job, though she use to be a hair dresser. Now she is homeless but perfectly capable of working, so why not get a job? Because all jobs require you give a valid home address...ok so get an address o wait you need a job to be able to afford to have one of them. AND here is the fuckin kicker coz she isn't a junkie or alcoholic the city doesn't have a program to help her or so many other cases just like hers.
After I finished talking to her I went and talked to my friend Stephan about it. He said a lot of times homeless people are the most genuine people you know. I spent so much time just feeling anxious when I was pressured by the homeless in Cali I didn't stop to talk to them. This is an outrage and absolutely ridiculous there needs to be a program that can provide temporary housing to those not on drugs or alcohol and that will help these homeless get jobs. For goodness sake people complain enough about people on the street so bloody do something about it!!!!
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