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The Chandler Park Conservancy is a very laid back and comfortable workplace. On an ordinary work day, nothing is really formal. The way people dress, speak, or act is very similar to how person would be around their family. Alex and Yvette both talk about everything under the sun, whether it be family issues or […]

Moving from a suburban, middle-class town, to an urban setting like Detroit has been quite the cultural shift. In terms of culture at my workplace, the residents at the Villages at Parkside are predominantly African American and are a range of ages, from infants to the elderly. This is quite different from the neighborhood I

Hi! This week I will be reflecting on the cultural cues that I have received at my community site. This past month, I have noticed many aspects of culture in the Green Garage. Some of these observations have including the youthful spirit everyone has, the general healthy diet of people that stay in the office

Hello everyone, I hope everyone is having a good week! This week’s post is about cultural cues and observations from my worksite (Nortown CDC). Workplace Culture The culture at my workplace is similar to my job during the school year. It is professional but also a “doing what we can on a shoestring environment”. It’s

In its broadest definition culture is the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively-Miriam Webster. What I translate this to mean is that culture can be anything. Whether it is a tangible object like food all the way to something less transparent like an idea or a value. Because the definition of

Hello, week four! This week has been super busy so far, and I’m trying my best to get everything done before we start our summer program next week. I’m glad I wrote my lesson plans in pencil, because I have had to make a lot of edits! I’m a little nervous as, even though I’ve

I am hoping to see that the summer will be split into two parts— Information and research. I am halfway through my time with the Sierra Club, and I plan to make the most of it! We have, for so long, been talking about our focus for this summer. Rhonda has broken it down for

It’s Week Three, and I have noticed that some things change. In my internship, I just finished writing up the questions I’ll be asking our community members. I didn’t think I would be starting this all so quickly, but just next week the thing I thought defined my project will be over. When July comes

So far in my community organization, I’ve been observing how connected healthy food access can be to one’s overall health and wellbeing. For example, when we do our pop-ups at elderly homes, I’ve noticed that not too many of the residents there have access to just go to a grocery store, so a lot of

This week has been one of the biggest challenges that I have experienced thus far in the program. I had the amazing opportunity to go to horseback riding camp with some of the children from the Parkside Community. I was extremely excited to interact with the kids and horses, but there were moments when everything