philadelphia

For some reason I was thinking about Philadelphia on the train this morning.

My exeprience of Philadelphia was very interesting - I got two different viewpoints of the city.  The first viewpoint I got was taking a trip down for a few hours with a co-counselor and her well-off friend.  We drove into the city centre, parked in valet parking, visited the art college my co-counselor's friend was studying at, had dinner and cocktails in the fancy side of town, then got driven back to Princeton.

The second viewpoint I got was from less well-off friends, who lived in the rougher side of town.  I had a lot of fun with them too - I crashed on someone's couch after spending 2 hours talking to his housemate about something or another, then we had breakfast at this great place called Honey's where I tried grits, and we spent lots of time walking around the streets.  It was really cool, but it seemed like a whole different city altogether.