In Class: Free Write on Public Analysis Location

I have not chosen a place to spend a few hours at and paying the msot attention that no one has ever payed to that place. I will be watching the people come and go, what they are wearing, what they might be talking about and what the decorations are in the place. Of course as i'm sitting there, i'll find mroe things to wrte about and more and more objects will jump out at me, kind of like a seek and find game, if you look hard and long enough, you jsut might find it! I was honeslty thinking about sitting on a bench at a playground and watching to see the ages of children, teens, or even adults that might come and play on lets say the swingset or the slide. How they would be dressed and if they brought along a picnic to eat there. Another place I was thinking about doing my Public Analysis on is the mall. We have all seen some scary things at the mall. Girls who wear skirts that go up to their butt pretty much, guys wearing those skinny jeans with the huge skateboard shoes, and so on. That might sound mean how i'm picking out all these different things about people, but that's just what I see. I will also be paying attention to the way the mall might be layed out and where the food court is located and so on. Are the floors clean? Are the people in a good mood? Who's working at the foodcourt? Is it primarily one race or another? I might even go to my old high school and sit in the courtyard and watch how the students behave, what they're wearing, if I notice a trend in clothing or slang, and all the different things that I will be looking for in every palce I go to.

I might even be very critical about the environment. I tend to be a bit of a germophobe and if I see, for example, a piece of gum on the ground, I am absolutely disgusted. I tend to pay attnetion more to the details of a public space more than the overall feel that the place might want you to notice. If a place is dirty on the inside but niceand clean on the outside, not worth going in there...We'll see where I end up going!