Contact Zones

In the surrounding community I've noticed several different contact zones that I thought were particularly interesting. The one that interested me the most had to have been the bus station. The Burlington Gray Hound station, about a fifteen minute walk from campus, twenty if you depending on luggage. It's full of every kind of person you could imagine. Everyone rides the bus; rich people, poor people, old people young people. As soon as you walk in to get your bus ticket you see the people around you interacting and it could be a seven foot tall thug just chit chatting with a seventy year old woman, just laughing to pass the time. Emotions even manage to escalate in the Burlington Gray Hound station. I've seen people just sit out front screaming at each other, one of which is usually a stubborn employee who's being less than helpful. It's a great way to see all sorts of different people from different backgrounds interact at such an every-day kind of place like that.