Redwood City CW

After the small hiccup at Amsterdam airport yesterday, our journey went smoothly and we arrived in San Fransisco without any problems. We were picked up by Susan Crane, with whom we did actions in Büchel Germany against the nuclear weapons stationed there. She brought us to the language school the Redwood Catholic Worker runs in Redwood city and where we will be staying until saturday.

The school gets a small budget from the Redwood Catholic Worker and is run by an all women group of volunteers. they give English classes to Women in the evenings and in the mornings they welcome homeless people for breakfast and to use the shower.

After a good night sleep Larry, a long time member of the Catholic Worker took us on a tour to show some of the places the CW helped start or where still active in. The first stop was a huge soupkitchen where they serve meals to 450 people a day, 6 days a week. (I say soupkitchen but they served full meals and dessert.) We were very impressed by the big containers full of food and the professional looking kitchen. They get all their food donated, and just as in Dortmund and Amsterdam, one thing there is always to much of is bread.

We got back to the language school and the end of the breakfast where Carl, one of the homeless visitors helped us to get our phone and USA simcard  to work.
Next we went into San Fransisco to do some sightseeing and to try and visit some CW communities there. We tried phoning them beforhand but nobody answered. The first community we found was the Martin de Porres House of Hospitality

Unfortunatly it turned out they are closed on wednesdays...Next we walked over to the Temenos Catholic Worker , again nobody was home but there was an omnious sign on the door.

Ok, we could have planned this a bit better, but we got to see a lot of the city and ended up doing some sightseeing like the beautiful Maritime museum building, Alcatraz, Fishermans Wharf and the best of all the Musee Mecanique which had the most wonderfull old and new coin opperated machines.