I've been volunteering at this house called the Leighton House by vermont for the past semester. Every Wednesday I would go and tutor kids with their homework and help them with their reading. For those of you who don't know, USC is in a not-very-nice place of Los Angeles, so the education of the kids that I meet in this neighborhood are way below proficiency level. It's heartbreaking because they are so eager to learn and so excited everytime they move up one grade in reading, or everytime they complete math problems that I give them. They have been calling themselves "math ninjas."
Fun fact: only 5% of the students in the public high school/middle school closest to USC are proficient in their education. (this includes the kids I teach.) Most of these kids will end up incarcerated. However, 98% students at the high school in La Canada (only 15-30 minutes away) are proficient, and most of them are above average. Sadly, the more I see of Los Angeles, the more I realize that America is not a nation founded on equality.
So this past Wednesday, I realized how similar this place was to the little slum Noemi is in. The skies were particularly incredible due to the rain, and the lighting was quite magnificent, so I decided to take some reference photos to capture the sky and the look/feel of the neighborhood. It's not your american dream neighborhood, but I love it to pieces.
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| check out this sky |
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| I really love the color variety in the houses |
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| check out how the sun shines through the house! |
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| more house designs |
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| I love the fences, rubble (the house next door is being redone,) and the colors of the houses against the sky |
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