La Tapachulteca Analysis

On October 12th me and my group members visited La Tapachulteca which is located in Van Nuys. La Tapachulteca is a Central American grocery and bakery shop. The shop that we visited had many different parts to it. As I walked to the front of the shop I noticed a small playground for children that had graffiti all around the sides of the store. As I got closer to the entrance I got a little nervous because I noticed graffiti all over the entrance which is consider vandalism. As I entered into the store I saw a guy working for a commercial company trying to sell products. Once I reached to the quad many people were staring at me and my group members which made it very uncomfortable for us to take pictures and interview employees in a relaxed environment. In all honesty it was very difficult to do the field work that was assigned to us because most of the employees spoke English therefor it was challenge for me to understand what was going on in a conversation. To begin the comparison between my second essay and the site visit one thing I noticed was I wrote a lot about working in difficult situations. As I walked around La Tapachulteca I noticed there were …show more content…
I met a family who worked very hard together, had the proper permits, and who were on their second food truck. I believe if we had interview more street vendors we would of ran in to a street vendor who struggled a lot like in our experts but being inside the La Tapachulteca showed some of those characteristics. I have read many sad stories in this class and of course when I went to my sight visit no one shared their stories with us but you could see it in their eyes. The pain, suffering, and more importantly the loneliness. I hope my next visit to La Tapachulteca I have a better experience in communicating with