So, usually I am in the office everyday for 8 hours at the same desk, in the same chair, facing the wall. This is horrifyingly uncomfortable and boring to say the least. I have very bad hip problems which results in my legs falling asleep or being numb every hour. It is truly painful. So […]
“I am on a vacation,” was my mentality as I traveled with my director, Nate, and my co-worker, Alan, to Beaver Island for a four-days company’s first ever retreat. I felt honored and extremely grateful that they invited and allowed me to go on the first company’s retreat with them, even though I am only
Hau’s Week 7: Chiwara Retreat! Read More »
Okay this week had good news and bad news. Which one do you want to hear first? The bad news right? Well this week we had to close the Eastside Farmers Market early due to bad weather. In the beginning it was all going well besides the strong winds that where threatening to blow over
7. Research and Weather Read More »
Last weekend, Amber and I visited the DIA because, shockingly, I hadn’t been there in years. It’s difficult realizing all of the things I have missed out on just because of my peers’ prejudices surrounding Detroit. I guess the positive way to view that is, at least I’m experiencing it now! One thing that I really
Stereotyping the Arts Read More »
I finally know what it’s like to have strangers slam a door in my face. Well, okay, it only happened a few times, and it wasn’t really a slam as me getting two words out and the residents backing very quickly into their homes with, “We’re really not interested,” and a quick closing-and-locking maneuver. This
Meeting Community Members (Finally) Read More »
I had never realized until working at one, that non-profits are not the well-oiled machines that corporations are. One could argue that the work that they do is much more valuable from a social standpoint, but moving information and coordinating with people outside of the organization is proving to be more and more difficult as
Project 1 for me was our annul health fair. Myself and another intern had been preparing for this for about 4 weeks. I couldn’t wait to see how it was going to turnout. Everything that could have possibly gone wrong, went wrong!! I came into the office at 7 a.m. (real dedication) and I was
The big day is here and it almost bombed!! Read More »
Last week kind of flew by. We were supposed to be preparing for the health fair, but I feel like as an organization we managed to do a lot of other things. My supervisor wasn’t in at all last week due to a busy schedule and I think the only thing that made that difficult
Week 6 just flew right by me Read More »
This week was a very fresh change of pace and environment for me at Focus HOPE. So I will just speak on my two highlighted moments! You can rest assured that I’ve also been doing all the work I have previously spoke as well. On Tuesday I attended an event for Data Driven Detroit. It
Week Seven at Focus:HOPE, an extreme change of pace Read More »
One of the main lessons I learned this week was, creating and passing out surveys is exciting, but retrieving, recording, and analyzing the data is not that great. I was able to round-up 82 high school students to take a survey I created, while telling them details about the program. Being in the public sector
