People have been asking me “how does LA compare to Seattle?” As much as I would love to compare and contrast the cities, it really isn’t possible. The experiences I had and the way I went about the cities were totally different. In Seattle I walked everywhere. In LA I sat in a convertible. In Seattle I walked out of the train with no plan at all, and just wandered. In LA, Zima picked me up from the station and we went to Claremont McKenna.
Zima and his friend Wade picked me up from Union Station in Los Angeles in a Mustang convertible We drove back to CMC with the top down, a 30 minute drive. We got to his dorm and I got started on my laundry. Three days in the only clean clothes I had left made them very, very dirty, not to mention smell… I smelled. Got the laundry going, took a well needed shower and went around meeting people. We got back to the room and I fell asleep almost immediately.
Thursday I got to know the Claremont colleges a bit better. There are five schools in practically the same campus: Claremont McKenna, Pomona, Harvey Mudd, Scripps and, Pitzer. Of all the schools, it was Harvey Mudd that caught my attention the most, I felt like I was in a movie. I walk into campus, and there’s loud music playing: metal, loud metal. We continued walking, myself already in utter shock, and happen upon a big pile of junk right below a dorm room balcony. I turned to Wade, “Is it art?”
“No, Elliot, that’s trash. Here, kick it, kick the trash” So we proceeded to to kick a burned up computer that was thrown for a balcony. Basically, Mudd is just a bunch of crazy engineering students all put together in a very free environment. Chaos does ensue.
Zima, Wade, Ben, Jake, and me took a trip to the top of a near by mountain, to check out the scenery.
Friday we took the Mustang GT into Los Angeles. I went with Zima, of course, and his friends Eliot (the dangerous one) and J.J. We drove everywhere: Venice beach, Sunset Blvd., Hollywood Blvd., Amoeba Records, Beverly hills, and so much more. It was a great way to see as much of LA as possible in the short amount of time we had there.
