Walk, walk, walk...

So, for one of our assignments we were asked to go on a walk somewhere in Philly, take pictures, do some sketches, find and pick up some random objects etc. Trying to kill two birds with one stone, my roommate, Julia, and I decided to head on down to center city to go to Blick Art Materials and get supplies for our drawing class. 

 Everything started out well as we left our apartment, we ran into a friendly Temple police man on a segway who let me take his picture, thanks man! We headed up the street and down to the subway. When entering our tokens, Jules accidentally put in two instead of one, and the stupid turnstile wouldn't give it back! (this is important I promise). Anyway, got on the subway and headed down to city hall.

Now I don't know about you, but whenever I get off at that stop I am so confused about which direction is which that I almost always end up going the wrong way. After a little walking we finally made our way to Blick. After shopping we took a few more pictures, until my camera died :(, and headed back to septa. Again I got us kind of lost, well not really. I just got confused as to where we got back into the city hall stop. The construction of the one portal did not help. But we asked a philadelphia cop/parking person, who also seemed a bit confused as to where things were, and eventually we got back down into the subway. 

This is where that part about the lost token comes in. As you know those token machines in the subway don't give change, and we only had a five or a ten, and the ticket man never has tokens or change. (again this has a point, just bear with me) So Jules and I are discussing our options, and all of a sudden this woman at the other token machine starts ranting about "white trash sluts" and "I hear you talking about me" and "Imma kill you" kind of stuff. Pretty scary. Needless to say we got our tokens and got out of there as soon as we could. We could hear her yelling until the point we got back on the train. I was legitimately scared. But alas, we made it back to our apartment safe and sound. Just don't ever take me into center city if you need to find a place quickly!