Blogging in the City of Angels Week 6

This week I decided to go to Torrance. I decided to take the bus out that way to Torrance. I decided to wake up in the morning and I got up and decided to visit it. One thing is I was completely surprised to ride the bus between the two places. From Westwood to Culver City the bus ride was very safe and I felt fine, but after this I noticed the area began to change. The demographics went from white to mostly Latino Immigrants. I also noticed that people began to change from students to rougher individuals.
The bus was interesting. We passed through Inglewood and I noticed the Black students from afar. Here were many interesting characters. I noticed from Inglewood the neighborhood was Black and it seemed quite unsafe. Later on we traveled and I noticed people on the
other side.

Blogging Social Differences in LA:Week 5

This week my roommate obliged to drive me around Glendale, California for a ride. We left UCLA early this morning because we did not have class. At around 9 am we got into the car and headed out on the Santa Monica Freeway. I honestly fell asleep on the ride there, but about 1 hour later we arrived in Glendale. Since I am not from the Los Angeles area, I was amazed at the sudden feel of Glendale, Too my surprise once you head inland I noticed that the Southern California Beach feel is not present. Glendale looks and feels more like a desert. Though it is urbanized it feels somewhat like a desert. We drove around the inner part of Glendale on Colorado Street. There were quite a bit of buildings near the freeway observed, but near the Glendale Galleria it was a bit more suburban. There were rows and rows of houses as well as apartments. There were also nice palm trees and nice trees that lined the streets.

Aerial of Glendale, California
We drove around the Glendale Galleria and noticed that the mall had a nice Target store and a nice modern exterior. It looked like it was built for an upper middle class neighborhood. Glendale appeared to have quite a number of Armenians and Caucasians in this area. It appears to be a concentration of wealthier individuals. Glendale is about 20 miles away from UCLA.