As I look back at my first post, I think that I have accomplished all I set out to do. During the first week I didn’t feel like I knew anything about my project or much about EcoWorks, but now I feel like a really became a part of the community here. Going in I …
Having expectations tends to be a losing bet. Maybe it’s a source of pessimism, but going into a situation with high expectations hurts an experience. We can’t control all aspects in our lives, and having expectations as though we do only causes frustration and anxiety. My expectations for this program ten weeks ago were…well, I don’t …
As I begin to look back on this summer I believe that I have gained some major keys to having a successful DCBRP experience. Luckily, for those of you reading I don’t mind sharing. 🙂 Go into your community with respect, you must understand community members know what their needs better than you. Wednesday trivia …
Re-reading my first week’s letter which was full of exclamation points and excitement was a little bit cringe-y, but it was all true. I was eager to live and work in the city. My goals were to get a good start with my career in education policy, get a taste of adult work life, and …
I think a large portion of my time in Detroit other than my job and the people in my program has been impacted by my life group. So my life group is pretty much a bible study group (through the church that I go to in Ann Arbor, a lot of people come to Detroit …
Reaction: I wrote that short poem about the first week. I am glad that I stuck it out to the end. It’s your first official job and you’re three days in. You want to quit but you’re gonna make it to the end. This is your city and you’re so close to home. Remember that …
The beginning of Wale’s song starts off with George from Seinfeld saying “I don’t want hope; hope is killing me. My dream is to become hopeless. / When you’re hopeless you don’t care, and when you don’t care, that indifference, it makes you attractive.” The song is about the sense of hopelessness in people’s life’s …
As everything I have done this summer is coming to an end, I have to think about what I have accomplished and how I feel about it. -Being an advocate for my community.- This is something that I know I am going to continue to do. I hope that I continue to fight for the …
I learned a lot from seminars and group meetings. It is hard to compare them and chose which was better because they are so different and I got different things from both of them. In seminars I got a lot more information and would compare it to being in a class. While some of the …
Dear Detroit, I have always been confused about you. You are unlike anything I have ever known which makes it hard to tell people what you are like. Through the years I have been happy with you then enraged and then happy again. Although we have had good and bad days your relentless efforts to …
