Fun, wow!

One of the most interesting parts of this immersion was observing the various stereotypes of San Francisco and analyzing them. While walking in the city I got to see these stereotypes first hand. We saw countless stereotypes from drug use to open homosexuality and everything in between. The homeless population was not too large, but there were quite a few of them on the corners and walking around with shopping carts. What really stuck out to me was one homeless man we saw on our way to the airport on our flight home. We saw a homeless man walking in between cars at a red light but he was not asking for money. He was holding up a homemade sign that said smile with a smiley face. This was inspirational and was cool to see a man with so little to send a little message to people in the cars. His message could be interpreted multiple ways, but the way i interpreted it was him telling the people in the cars to smile because they are truly blessed for what they have. But he also might have just enjoyed people smiling.