{"id":893,"date":"2013-06-27T12:15:11","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T16:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uropcbrp.com\/?p=893"},"modified":"2020-08-28T14:08:08","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T14:08:08","slug":"detroit-a-love-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/2013\/06\/27\/detroit-a-love-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit: A Love Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This week I think was the first week that I really began to get into my work and also understand how much there is left to do. Before I was feeling absolutely unproductive because I couldn’t approach the material, and now I feel like though I am productive, I have so much left to do!\u00a0Though it’s been stressful I think I’m really ready for this change and to be finally striking out on a path, whether it is the right one or not.<\/p>\n

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I also had my first experience with phonebanking this week. If you’re not familiar with it, it basically consists of me calling all of our members and asking if they would be interesting in joining us for an event. By the end of three long days of calling hundreds of strangers, I don’t think I’m ever going to forget the “Rap”: …wanted to let you know about an exciting local event…hosting a discussion on the true value of food… yada yada.<\/p>\n

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After all of this \"image-4\"<\/a>though, I think the most important thing that I discovered this week is that I’m falling in love with Detroit. There are so many beautiful things to do and see, and the most amazing part is that no one even knows about it.<\/p>\n

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I think I’ll finish off with something I’ve been thinking about for a while now, that you shouldn’t read too much into. A metaphor of Detroit: to me, detroit feels like a freshly dug hole. It once was nice clean, freshly cut grass just like all the grass that expands around it. But one day something drastic happened and the grass got torn up and the dirt strewn out. But the wonderful thing about a freshly dug hole is that it’s still beautiful.The smell is intoxicating and it’s teeming with just as much life as in the grass that lay there before. And that’s when you have to ask yourself, would you ever want to fill such a beautiful hole with the grass and dirt that was there before. Maybe it won’t lie right and end up looking like a mound of ugly dirt. Maybe it will kill all the inspiring life that lives beneath the ground. Maybe it would all be a waste.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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