Last summer, I worked on a farm in Edgartown, Massachusetts. Edgartown is a town on Martha’s Vineyard, which is a ritzy vacation island that is popular on the East Coast. I had never been to Martha’s Vineyard before I worked there, but I have some friends from home that go on vacation there every year. …
My last day in the DCBRP is Friday, and I feel proud of all I have accomplished this summer. At my placement, I accomplished the goals I set out to achieve in my first blog post. Every person at Develop Detroit is one that I could contact for questions and for help. I have had …
If I feel a sense of relief that I made it through the ten weeks, then maybe I need to check myself and my attitude towards the work I’ve been doing. Us DCBRP-ers come and go, water rushing through the vessels that are our various organizations. We moved into University Towers ten weeks ago, some …
It’s my last day at Friends of Parkside and as I sit here reflecting on the last 2 and half months, it doesn’t feel real. After my first week here, even after my first month here, I didn’t feel like time was moving fast at all. But now it is August already and it feels …
I really enjoyed the tour of Detroit we went on with Mr. Jordan. I learned so much about Detroit that I did not know. I was shocked that all of this history was in Downtown Detroit and I did not know nothing about it. I wish that Detroit Public Schools can implement the Detroit-rich history …
An experience that stuck out to me that was not at my placement was in the beginning of the program where everyone went to room 324. That was the spot to hang out and everyone got a chance to get know each other and we just talking. Dominique, Alona, Lindsay, and Daria all made brownies …
As I reflect on my first blog post, I did not expect to make a profound change in my line of thinking about the city. I have grown up in Detroit; it has been my home for the past nineteen years. However, there were many small things that helped me understand my view of Detroit …
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Faces painted onto cinder blocks lined the grass. Faces painted onto the sidewalks trampled under scuffed shoes. “They’re headstones,” I said, pointing at one of the cinder blocks, with a faded yellow rotary phone on top of it. During our placement, Jillian took us to view the Heidelberg Project. Even though this experience occurred with …
Something that surprised me about the program is how much I looked forward to our Tuesday events. I was expecting them to be a chore after a long day at work but they ended up being one of my favorite parts of my experience here since they taught me so much about the city and …
The first thing that I noticed when reading the letter that I wrote to myself was that I used to write so much for these blog posts, but who actually wants to read that much. Most of what I said was descriptive and had a charismatic tone which was nice but it was unnecessarily long …
