It’s been a busy week! Over the past 5 weeks, I’ve learned so much about Friends of Parkside, and especially about my mentor, the one behind it all. I learned how Mr. Rowe was a resident of the Village of Parkside, and it was his mother who he took after later in life. His mother […]
This is the first week of Chandler Park’s Summer Program and I must say that working with kids is hard work. They are all so fun and have different personalities so that is the only hard part about working the program. One negative thing that I would have to mention is that it feels like
I didn’t have time this week to interview my site director, so I figured I could just update yall on the progress of my project. Since last week I have been working on a map of the DPFLI that includes all the amenities such as our windmill, firepit, rain garden, etc, at the site. My
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The weeks are going by so fast it seems! My post will be a little short for this week since it was a bit of a slow week with coming back from the holiday weekend. A quick update on the research, we have been making great progress and I look forward to the project I
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Hey y’all! Aminata here I’ve had a lot of fun with small adventures around Detroit and other areas. It’s so easy with our DCERP cohort because everyone is so nice, friendly, and fun. This past Monday for 4th of July, some of us went to a festival that had music, food trucks, carnival rides, and
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I just finished a site visit with my coworkers today. We went to one of our past graduate’s fashion businesses BeHer, a boutique store aimed to empower women. It is a very meaningful experience. For me, I learned why neighborhood and economic development organizations have been so attentive on sending business into physical locations despite
I have three main tasks for the summer that each have many smaller steps. Because of this, it’s hard to feel closure because my day’s work often does not come to a tangible end point. This is an adjustment that I am trying to approach with openness and grace. I am used to working to
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Hey everyone! Hope everyones doing good. I work at Chandler Park Conservancy and the past month we have been working on a youth summer program. It has been a big process to get everything together for the camp, and it is only me and two other people running the camp on a daily basis. I
I can’t believe it’s week five already! Things are moving fast and my work with HVR has been pretty consistent yet very entertaining. I have helped out at 5 farmers market dates so far and each one has been very different- we’ve had live entertainment, arts and crafts, and lots of yummy food. I find
When looking at today’s blog option to write a freeform post, I thought that would be very fitting considering the freeform nature of a lot of my work this summer. I thought that working for the city government would be regimented and highly directed, but it has turned out to not be that way. I
