Homes for the homeless

All right, back in Latvia once again. It was surprising to see that there had been some snow here and the weather seems content in settling to the negatives. Probably it means that winter is actually coming finally, although I'm kind of hoping it would be over already.

Coming to the office this morning I noticed a homeless guy pulling a cart made out of wood and cardboard, he stopped in front of our office building and walked down to the loading area where there are a lot of cardboard boxes. I was joking to my colleague that he found a new house here and we continued inside. Now, three hours later I saw the guy still working out back and he had a massive pile of cardboard on his mobile home, maybe he took my proposition literally and is gathering material for his new home.

There are quite a lot of homeless people in Riga, most of them are old, screwed out of their pensions and safe life when Soviet Union collapsed and the new nations did not (do not) have enough resources to give decent social services for these old folks. That's why you see so many old ladies cleaning the streets around the day. For a person coming from Finland, this is somewhat stressing and strange, but when in Rome ..

Well, at least I hope this guy can set up the finest cardboard castle available in Riga and invite his homeless buddies for a christmas snack.

Back to work.