Berkeley Hills

It was Friday afternoon June 8, 2012 I went for a walk around the Berkeley hills with Jonathan. The sun shined brightly but the cold wind blew strongly which made me so cold under the sunshine. The path that we passed was very beautiful surrounded by flowery shrubs spreading fragrant smell along the walk.

We stopped in a few spots to enjoy the view of the Golden Gate Bridge in the distant. It was built 75 years ago, but the bridge still looked very strong and elegant as the landmark of California.

I saw many housesalong our walk ; small, big and medium size. What surprised me most was I did not see any human around the house. They were all empty, however I saw some chickens which reminded me of my house in Bali. We also saw a mother deer and her two youngsters. Jonathan said that the mother deer can attack us to protect her youngsters. I was kind of scared after Jonathan told me about that.


On the way down the hill, I heard some voices but did not see anyone. I also smelled something strange, which Jonathan said that it was the smell of weeds (MJ). Going down hill, finally a man passing by with his two big dogs. As usual, we just greeted the dogs. 


My question is.....where were/are all the people of those houses? In Bali, our house is never empty, there is always someone or more people staying in our house. Therefore, seeing big houses without any person made me think, "there are many homeless people in one side and there are so many big houses in the other side". 


If you guys read this note, please feel free to fix my poor English. It will be highly appreciated by me. Thanks a ton.