{"id":13681,"date":"2018-08-02T10:57:31","date_gmt":"2018-08-02T14:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/dcbrp\/?p=13681"},"modified":"2020-08-28T14:04:34","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T14:04:34","slug":"wrapping-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/2018\/08\/02\/wrapping-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrapping Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

As DCBRP wraps up, it\u2019s interesting to look back on my thoughts from the first week of the program. Time has gone by so quickly, and there are still so many things I wish I had time to do.\u00a0<\/span>While I was very hopeful that I would get to practice some of my Spanish this summer, fewer opportunities presented themselves than I had hoped. There was one fairly cool moment I had in the staff kitchen though, that I think made up for the lack of frequent exposure to the language. Midsummer my coworkers were chatting in the kitchen in Spanish, and I realized they were plotting a plan for a gift for our boss. I don\u2019t want to reveal any details about the gift in case she\u2019s reading this, but the nouns, adjectives, and phrasing they were using all caught my attention. I totally understood what they were saying and it was A GREAT idea! I was so glad to chat with them about different ideas to expand, and also use some Spanish in the process. While I wish there were more moments like that in the summer, I\u2019m also very grateful to have been there for that moment.<\/span><\/p>\n

Going into the summer, I was very curious about what role I could play in Detroit. My mother having grown up here, and frequently visiting her family in the city as I grew up, Detroit felt like more a part of my past than present or future. While I\u2019m not sure my perceptions of Detroit have entirely changed, I think my views of a future in Detroit have strengthened. Before I hadn\u2019t been sure about how much time I would spend in Midtown versus surrounding areas, or of the people I\u2019d meet and culture I\u2019d discover in the city as a whole. What I found, I\u2019m not sure I can put into words that describe it in entirety, so I think I\u2019ll just share one of my favorite things I\u2019ve discovered. <\/span><\/p>\n

Everywhere you go in the city, there\u2019s a hype squad. Detroit has some of the most supportive people I\u2019ve ever met, and at the many many meetings I\u2019ve attended around the city this summer, there never failed to be a person(if not multiple) there to amp up the room. While at first I was a bit thrown off guard but the shouts of support and agreement as others spoke, now, they fill me with joy, hope, and a sense of community different from anything I\u2019d experienced in Ann Arbor. It\u2019s interesting how empowering simply experiencing agreement, and hearing someone else voice exactly what you were thinking can be. I think this phenomenon has extra gravity in Detroit because, for many, they live in a city actively trying to displace them. I can only imagine if lawmakers, in Detroit and Michigan at large, truly listened to the community here. What if the support that echoes the halls of town meetings was actually integrated into the infrastructure of the city? While for now, the supportive community fills me with joy, this Detroit, one designed with for and by its people, is the Detroit I would be honored to live in one day.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As DCBRP wraps up, it\u2019s interesting to look back on my thoughts from the first week of the program. Time has gone by so quickly, and there are still so many things I wish I had time to do.\u00a0While I was very hopeful that I would get to practice some of my Spanish this summer, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1669,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1669"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15399,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13681\/revisions\/15399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}