13th November
Had to do a whistle stop tour of Philly today which was actually quite good because running from place to place was about the only thing I would do to keep warm. Did all the famous landmarks (won’t bore you with the details) and went to the Philadelphia Museum of Art which has the famous stairs from the Rocky film. Whilst
several people ran up and down the stairs in a bid to look like Sylvester Stallone I was cornered by a homeless guy next to a statue of Rocky who promptly took my camera off me and commenced a 10 minute long photo shoot of me and the statue with him as director.
After that I had my final meeting of the scholarship with Joanne, one of the Directors of the Netter Centre for Community Partnerships based at the University of Pennsylvania. They’re doing a lot of good work making sure that the University engages with the community of West Philadelphia in which it is situated. This includes getting students to do community projects with school children, offering internships for people within the community and making sure that any construction work that costs over a certain amount involves local businesses.
My evening was spent watching films with an autistic guy who insisted on being called Rain Man before demonstrating how he could tell you the details of any film including when it was released, who was in it and how many awards it was nominated for. Pretty impressive.
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