Day 8: Culture at the Corner Store - Anna

Over the last couple days, Claire, Destiny, Dua'a, and I have been working on a sociology project involving women in Falmouth. We have been interviewing women to find out their views on beauty. Along with typical interviews, today we had a really interesting time at the corner store. The corner store is the place that we go to almost every day to buy snacks and drinks during lunch which is right down the street from Falmouth Heritage Renewal. We have built a very strong relationship with the owner of corner store and so she has helped us along the way during our project.

This afternoon we went over to the corner store to interview patrons of the store. Crystal, the store owner's daughter, told us it would be a good opportunity to interview some teenagers as they walked through the store on their way home. We got a couple interviews, but what we really walked away valuing were the conversations we had with Crystal about youth culture. It was first really interesting to see how everyone knew each other and they welcomed us into their circle. We learned about music, dance and Patois, which is the local Creole language. Even though we didn't get exactly what we were looking for out of the afternoon, I think we had an enlightening experience into the culture of the people we are working with.