hey so on thursday night we went on the ride along with 2 drug detectives. one who's known as 'big head' on the streets because when we was just a patrol officer he was good at his job and arrested a lot of bad people etc and is like a street legend apparently so that was pretty cool! they picked us up from college at 7pm then took us to the station to sign forms and gave us bullet proof vests just for safety etc! they were actually pretty comfy! Oh and they showed us some drugs and it's mad how cheap heroine is in little capsules (so it looks like paracetamol) it's $10 on the streets but then apparently up in towson where i'm studying it's loads because people don't want to go to the dodgey streets.
but yeah they we just drove round the streets of baltimore with them. We saw some hand to hand drug deals and they stopped and searched some guys who'd just bought drugs it was really interesting. It's like a whole other world just half an hour away from college. The poverty and the drugs and we saw a lot of people who were definately really drugged up. They took us to a place where some scenes in the wire was filmed which was wicked because i loved the wire and it was cool to see! and then we all went and got food and came home. but it was sooo fun and my friend amirah (who's studying photography) got some really good pictures for her final project. Were going to go on a day one at some point too which should be cool..and i'm guessing they'll be more peole out on corners dealing then too (it was freezing thursday night and the wind was mad. all night i was kept awake by it!) I've been pretty brief in describing it but it really was so interesting to see everything that's going on. It was kinda like stuff that happens in music that normal you're comletely disconnected from but to see it all in real life and the boarded up houses it was quite surreal but not! not too sure how to explain but hopefully you get the jist!
Last night was the funk house party which was soo cool. It was at a friend's house just off campus and there was a funk band and dj set up in the basement which was really nice and carpetted. So there were loads of people down there dancing etc, the band were really good and had a kinda rage against the machine sound but they were funk which was really cool. SO yeah goood times were had! also my friend steph and i played people at beer pong and kicked butt! we were undefeated! so that was fun!
tonight it's my friends 21st party on campus so yay for more partying! i am dancing and going to the gym and doing my work too not just going on ride alongs and partying hehehe!!
hope all's good back home =)happy saturday guys
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