Originally Posted by
tvqueen1905:
“i just hope i don't look in wrong direction and miss them
last night i went to try spot some with no luck 

the stars were all faint”
You can spot them in most areas of the sky - it's just that some areas will have a higher likelyhood.
Around 10pm to midnight - When Perseus is roughly North-east - the best places to look will by high to the East, High to the North - or directly overhead.
Shower meteors appear to shoot AWAY from the radiant - and the radiant of the Perseids, as the name suggests, is in the constellation Perseus.
If you have no idea which direction North and East are - take a close look at the following two pictures...
The first shows how to find North...
Look around the sky for either the 'W' shape of Cassiopeia - or the familliar shape of the Plough. Both will be about mid-height in the sky (35° to 45° up)
If you spot the 'W' first (it'll be on it's side like in the picture) - look to the left of it for the Plough - the 'top' of the 'W' points roughly North-ish
When you find the Plough - locate the two stars on the end - known as 'the pointers' - an imaginary line extended from the pointers, will lead you directly to the North Pole Star (Polaris)
Straight down from that, is almost exactly due North.
And while looking North - East is to your right.
http://i29.tinypic.com/246t5di.gif
The Perseids appear to emanate from Perseus - and will appear randomly in any of the directions shown on the chart below - but never actually AT the radiant point in Perseus - often even further away than the arrows on the chart, but always AWAY from Perseus.
http://i29.tinypic.com/2yzltt2.gif