The other week, I had lunch with a woman who I really wanted to meet and who I wanted to be my mentor. When I look at someone, I try to read them. When I went to the Social Entrepreneurship conference with Fresh Corner Cafe, a few weeks ago, I noticed a woman who looked like someone I had to meet and […]
Well, uh, excuse my last blog post. Apparently hitting “save draft” makes your half-finished blog post visible to the world. Realizing that fact five days later is a bit embarrassing. So sorry for the pointless rambling about “Office Space” and the hectic weeks at the church lately. As the program is winding down with two
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I’m starting to realize the large amount of “finishing up” I have to do in a short amount of time. I’ve made good progress on my literary review and sent a draft to my supervisor; I’m awaiting his comments that will hopefully guide me in writing the rest of the report. I’m still trying to
I cannot believe that week eight is over–time flies! I had fun working for Chiwara. It was inspiring to interact with approximately 20 people from different backgrounds who came to the Chiwara’s 1-day intensive to learn how to apply permaculture into their lives. I enjoy learning about their backgrounds, their perspectives about what is social
Hau’s Week 8: Intensive! @__@ Read More »
This has been on the rougher side compared to my other weeks due to some foreseeable and some unforeseeable events. The unforeseeable event was that Pat was in this hospital this week. The foreseeable event was that we have had this newspaper due for a while now. The two don’t go together very well. I
To work with people who are so dedicated to living and playing in the communities in which they work and being so dedicated to revitalizing metro Detroit is truly remarkable. I consider myself to be someone who sees hope in everywhere and believes in being kind to everyone and work your hardest for everything. And
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This week has been just been a roller coaster. As much as I am trying to finish my work so that I can present it to the board next week. There are also so many events coming up for Michigan Suburbs Alliance and with my supervisor not only being the coordinator for MMC but also
Events. Events. Events. Read More »
The focus group from last week went really well! We got lots of different input. So the timeline for my involvement on that project is as follows:Monday 1:00PM: receive an email during seminar asking to talk about the project4:30PM: I had a phone call from the grad student I worked with and we decided that
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So this week all I did was take pictures! I had to finish taking pictures of houses that need to be demolished and houses that are in foreclosure. I tried to go early in the morning with thoughts that people would not be out, but I was wrong. Again it gets really weird and I
Week 8 – More (Creepy) Picture Taking =) Read More »
I feel like we all mostly went for the food 😀
Us at the U of M Intern Event Read More »
