My Experience of Interviewing Beggar

Yesterday our group went to somewhere under the bridge of Yau Ma Tei and did the interview with a beggar. Before having this interviewing, I had a concept that most of the beggars or homeless people are dirty, impolite and whatever else bad. And my mum said that the beggars are worse than I thought. She said that they were ruder than the woman selling vegetables in the market.(As I know, the woman selling vegetables in the market is really very rude.) But after this interview, I think I was totally wrong. The old woman we interviewed was an affable woman.

The old woman we interviewed is called "Leung Ma". She was seventy years old, living with a little dog under the bridge. This little dog is even fiercer than the big dog living upstairs of my home.It always barked at us. But the dog is very cute, and it has a monkey doll on its back. "Leung Ma" has a son, called "Leung Chai". He was fourty years old.

Before "Leung Ma" living under this bridge, she has her own house which is far away from the bridge. Unfortunately, the neighbors lived next to "Leung Ma" treated her very bad. That makes me wondering, why her neighbors are such bad? "Leung Ma" was even older than them, and now she is even poorer than them, they should not have bias against her. But luckily, "Leung Ma" thinks that most of the Hong Kong people are better than her horrible neighbors.

Living under the bridge, I think it is poor. But she didn't grumble about it. I felt sorry about her. She said that sometimes she would sell some boxes in her "home", or keeping some things in her boxes. Both of "Leung Ma" and "Leung Chai" have some defects, "Leung Ma" always have headache, and "Leung Chai"'s hand was hurt. But they wouldn't like to see the doctor because they think that was dangerous. That makes me feel puzzled. Why would seeing a doctor be dangerous?

But after this interviewing, I really learn many things. I understand that beggars and homeless people needs lots of help . I think the government should be more concerned with beggars and homeless people. They should give more care to them. I also realized that I have much happiness. Compare with "Leung Ma", no one bias against me, I didn't have any headache, I have great neighbors. Even living in poor conditions, she had no grumbles. But I always grumble about many things. I know my attitude was wrong. I should give thanks to everything.