July 2017

Our youth workers from Grow Detroit’s Youth Talent started this week. They were split into 3 groups, so I’m only supervising/working with one group for most of the time. From spending time with my team, I’ve come to appreciate their sense of eagerness to learn. After introducing my project to them and explaining to them […]

One experience that has stood out to me has been visiting the recycling facility Recycle Here. When we moved in I was surprised that our apartment and many other buildings nearby didn’t have recycling. Recycling is second nature since I’ve grown up doing it and I felt so weird just throwing things out, so Alona

Over the past couple of weeks, we have been going out to different pop-ups and surveying customers. Most of the pop-ups are volunteer run, but for the first couple weeks we would only go to new locations that we would run ourselves. Being the ones interacting with the customers the entire time definitely had benefits

Although Naim is my supervisor (not boss – he hates that word) and everything we do when we’re together is technically work (or at least productive enough that it counts as hours), as of today we are officially friends (he asked if I would still be his friend after this internship and I said yes),

I feel like this prompt is supposed to lead us to discuss some incredible revelation that we had one day about Detroit and living here and things like that but I haven’t really had one of those yet. The experiences that I’ve had so far that really stand out to me are the fun ones

I don’t really talk about my involvement with choir or singing, mainly because I haven’t participated in them as long as other student organizations that I’ve been more passionate in.  However, when I do choose to bring this up, I do get the usual statements of “Oh, you sing?” or “Sing something right now.” (and

An experience that stood out to me, not having occurred at my placement, was when I witnessed a bike get stolen right in front of University Towers. I just so happened to be up and awake really late one night, and as I went to close my window, I seen two suspicious looking guys walk

Throughout the summer we have all been working at different nonprofits, visiting other sites to hear from other non-profit leaders, and venturing outside to enjoy and explore the city. I have enjoyed all of these activities and Daria and I still have a list of many other possibilities. Yet I keep thinking about the idea

Hello Jenna. Thank you for sitting in on this lovely blog post. I draw your attention to a not so interesting story that involves a stranger whose name I have forgotten, Alona honey, my older brother who is often called my twin and honorary Erin honey. T’was a beaming day in the Tuesday life of

Last week, after our Thursday event downtown, a few friends and I decided to bike around the area a little. After all, it was nice out, and we all spend way too much time in University Tower. We biked through Corktown and into Southwest. We saw many historic homes and lots of beautiful street art.