Wed. 07/16/08 11:37 PM
I went to Summer in the City for the first time in 2008 recently. If someone had told me before I went that I was committing myself to pull weeds for five hours I might have not been so willing to wake up four hours earlier than the post-grad schedule I had fallen into (yeah, I had become that lazy).But at the end of the day, as always with summer in the city, by the time I was getting back on the bus I felt great about the work I had been a part of. The other volunteers and I helped turn a 'garden' completely full of weeds into a clean weed free and organized flower bed. One of the best things about Summer in the City is that come two o'clock in the afternoon you can look back and see all the great progress you made through the day; maybe its weeding a garden, or making food boxes to send to the needy, helping the needy in person, or painting a mural in one of Detroit's neighborhoods. Even though so much about SITC has changed since I first began making the trips out to North Farmington's parking lots in the early summer mornings four or five years ago, all the great things have remained the same. Just that these days the organization has quintupled in size has four times as many buses, way more sites and touches all the more people for it. Volunteers Keep on rockin this summer and every summer that follows.
