Detroit - Urban Issues

Canada, or How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love This Side of the Border

 

The following is a list of things our Site Leader Michelle Fiesta wouldn't let us do today:

1.    Cross the border to Canada

2.     Go to a strip club

3.     GO TO CANADA!!!

We admit, however, that the day was not a TOTAL bust. Maybe. We guess.

Sunday started with grocery shopping! Well, it started with bleary whining of each others' snoring habits, but then shopping. We don't have enough of an aversion to cliché to eschew theme nights, so we bought foodz for Pasta Night, Taco Night, Breakfast for Dinner, and our college staple—Pizza.

Marching on through breakfast, we went to the Detroit Historical Museum. Attractions of the venue included a model of the first car made in Motor City, a replica of a Detroit street in the 1840's and lots of stuff that looked like it belonged in a steampunk exhibit.

We moved on to the GM Renaissance Center (a weird bastard child of a deserted mall), a car dealership, and a food court. The empty walkways didn't really provide much entertainment, but in between we stopped and took some very dignified portraits outside of the center next to the Detroit River (next to Canada!). Look out, fellow ASB-ers. Detroit has our eyes on that Photo Scavenger Hunt prize.

After face-planting in some really solid pasta, we made a WalMart run to grab supplies for planting trees tomorrow (eeeeee) and settled at the Student Union of the University of Detroit Mercy. We're pretending to be students here. Shhhhh.

From our new alma mater (for the week at least),

Alicia, Stephanie, Ro, Monica, Roze, Stephen, Jake, Paul, Taylor, Carol, Nick, and Michelle