Day 4: Vocational start now - tuesday 12/4

My hosts are Tommy and Mary. Two great persons that have lived a crazy live already. They live in a beautiful house in the woods near Duke University.

They dropped me of at the Duke University Police Department for my first vocational visit. Duke is a private university with only 4000 students and about 6000 employees. I was met by a women named Ruby and she’s a typically black women who laughs a lot.

First up, was a tour of the parking lots and the parking system that is in place at Duke. Every student has to pay and are designated to a parking lot. They are not allowed to park anywhere else. If they do, they get towed to their parking lot and have to pay a fine of about 150$. Considering that they drive Porsches and Beemers, that isn’t a big fine.

Then we went to visit the Hospital. A police officer showed us around and it was very interesting for me. We have a lot of problems in common and different solutions for them.

After an other Rotary lunch meeting and another presentation that went great. I Returned to Duke to ride along in a patrol car. Of course I can’t tell what happened.

Mary made a lovely meal for me and after talking about religion and other light topic, I called it a day... Up to UNC on wednesday.

Nick