Field site Observation

Friday even March 28, 2008 I took the train from Holmes train station to the West End Station. I met with one of the members of the subculture, prostitution, which I will be observing and researching in the following weeks. The girl, whom I met by the West End train Station, is apart of the unique subculture of prostitution. She is about my age, 19 years old. She is a few inches taller than me, had dark smooth skin, and looked like she weighed about 130-135lbs, and was African American. As we met up and exchanged greetings we began to walk toward the street where she usually began her business for the day. (You are probably wandering how I found a subject to meet with and observe in this unique subculture. This answer is I knew this girl before she decided on such an interesting choice of jobs. I contacted her recently and asked would she mind me interviewing her for the subculture I was researching and observing) the area were she started off her day was very urban many of the houses looked dingy, run down, and old. The streets were small in narrow like many of those in the down town area and they had slightly headed down both ways of the main streets. I heard many cars playing rap music some doing what you would call, beating down the block( playing music loud from your car speakers, usually one installed, you feel the music rumbling through your house)and people some people shouting greeting toward my friend as she came down to the street she live and did business on. She lived in the section they called Pittsburgh. These are some of the questions I asked her and responses she gave:
Q- How long have you lived out here?
A- About a year and four to six months
Q- How long have you been doing turning tricks?
A- About a year and two months
Q- Why did you start prostituting?
A- I started doing this because I could not find a job I needed money and this was easy fast money. It’s not hard at all I could probably make 150-250$ in a couple of hours and be done working for the rest of the day.

There were many more questions I asked that day but this is all I am about to blog for the moment.