steve in hollywood

I am still amazed at the vastness and variety of Los Angeles. Every week I find out about a new area I’ve never heard of before.  There are large ethnic neighborhoods, where everyone you meet there (practically) will be the same. Glendale, where I live, is largely Armenian. Many of the little stores here have signs in both English and Armenian. There are neighborhoods that are Mexican where everything is in Spanish and maybe no English at all.

This week I’ve been teaching in the city of Monterey Park. I noticed a large portion of my students were Asian, specifically Chinese, but a few others as well. Remember yesterday when I posted the Tai Chi picture?  Well I really noticed today. There’s a ton of Asian restaurants, and all the neighborhood signs have Chinese in them. And it’s not like this is “China Town”, a little section of a city, it is really a small city that is mostly Asian. In California. The funny thing is, you can drive a few miles and you are in another city that is completely different. I don’t know if I will ever see all there is to see out here.

Picture of the Day

Remember how I said I was teaching at a library this week?

This is how librarians label their food. I particularly liked, “The Folklore of American Holidays.”