{"id":4871,"date":"2014-07-10T00:25:08","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T04:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uropcbrp.com\/?p=4871"},"modified":"2020-08-28T14:07:39","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T14:07:39","slug":"week-6-friends-found-in-unexpected-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/2014\/07\/10\/week-6-friends-found-in-unexpected-places\/","title":{"rendered":"Week Six: Friends found in unexpected places"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can\u2019t believe I\u2019m already halfway done with my internship. I feel like so much has happened, yet there\u2019s still so much more that I want to do!<\/p>\n<p>I feel like I\u2019ve done some pretty great things with and without Focus: HOPE in the past five-ish weeks. Three weeks ago I did community outreach and passed out flyers telling residents about the then upcoming town hall meeting. I spoke with great residents who are passionate about seeing changes within their community and I saw those issues that need to be addressed as I walked throughout the neighborhood.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4872\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4872\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/dcbrp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/467\/2014\/07\/img_0492.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4872 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/dcbrp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/467\/2014\/07\/img_0492.jpg?w=225\" alt=\"IMG_0492\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4872\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the cuter residents within the Hope Village Initiative!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While I was a bit disappointed with the low number of residents that attended the town hall meeting the following week, I did witness some great ideas being formed. Those who did attend the meeting had very meaningful things to say and I saw the glimmer of hope that resides within many Detroiters and their city.<\/p>\n<p>Not only have I seen passion about engaging and important community topics, I\u2019ve also made a lot of new friends with complete strangers who are just passionate about everything. Today I became new friends with the parking lot security guy in Corktown by laughing about the hidden door for Slow\u2019s BBQ. I feel as though I have conversations like this almost everyday where someone is just genuinely nice and loves to have a pleasant conversation with a stranger. I didn&#8217;t expect for this to happen and for me to feel as comfortable as I do.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know what it is about Detroit, but I don\u2019t want my time living here to be over so soon. I know I still have four more weeks but I\u2019m already resenting the day when I pack up and return to Ann Arbor. Even though I love AA&#8230; the D is just as spectacular.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4873\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4873\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/dcbrp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/467\/2014\/07\/img_0498.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4873 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/dcbrp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/467\/2014\/07\/img_0498.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"Detroit at Dusk\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4873\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Detroit at Dusk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can\u2019t believe I\u2019m already halfway done with my internship. I feel like so much has happened, yet there\u2019s still so much more that I want to do! I feel like I\u2019ve done some pretty great things with and without Focus: HOPE in the past five-ish weeks. Three weeks ago I did community outreach and [&hellip;]<\/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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cbrp-2013"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4871","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=4871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16336,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4871\/revisions\/16336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}