Wednesday, 17 October 2007

The route from my point of view 1-2pm (Helen Blana)

I first did the route with all the others in our first meeting.I felt safe that day.When we ended the route they told us we had to do it again , but this time we had to do it by ourselves. I'm not from Portsmouth , not even from U.K. I had to walk the route again at 1-2pm. I thought , for my first walk around the city it was a great time. Although it was scary again. When I left Portland building and walked down an norrow alley leading to a busy road...The roads that i walked that day were so noisy and pretty dangerous. The drivers are so careless. I was os depressed that vryone cared about themselves and nothing more. But thankfully that did not last for long cause as soon as i stepped my foot on the park opposite to a huge and very well constructured building i felt so much warm and joy. Seeing all those children running up and down , yelling and screaming , and not in a bad noisy way. Everything seemed better as i kept walking through the park , it seemed as the noisy road was far far away, Unfortunatly all these seemed to faid away when I walked under the railway brigde were i got scared because I'm claustrophobic and the strange sound of the trains passing by.
I walked through the memorial where I wondered the story of these scalptures to the guildhall where i felt quite small with all the huge buildings arround me. Then I passed through a guy that shouted something about a corrupt council which I found rather fanny. I kept walking and i found my self walking through big stores with lots and lots of clothes , shoes and all kinds of accessories , which if i had time i would go inside and buy all of them. The Comercial road was noisy as well. I watched busy people walking by me with their mobile phones.
Once I left Comercial road i turned to a small allayway with lot of cameras over my head which made me fell like a criminal and very unwelcomed to this city.There were only houses around me until i reached ayet another railway brigde. This bridge was different. Good different because it was a colourful brigde made I think by students..
Finally as i stepped out of the bridge I found again busy people and noisy cars passing me by and i felt better nad welcomed again.

Helen Blana

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