It's Monday. Everything is slow on Mondays. You never know what you're doing and you have no idea what you're getting yourself into. Not this Monday.
This Monday we were sent right to work and all I could think of is "This is going to be a looooong day." We worked in a paint warehouse this morning and afternoon. And it was was all fine and dandy, but afterwards Jesse told us we were going to this urban art exhibit. And I was thinking "OMG really? We are covered in paint and I am so tired, can't we just go?" Gosh I am so glad that we didn't go back to the hotel. We went to this place called the Heidelberg project.
This place is urban street art made out of the ruins of a riot in the streets if Detroit. Houses were burnt down and the area got very dangerous.
This guy named Tyree Guyton started this project to attract people to this area to make the area safer for his family when he was 12. This park was a beautiful symbol for togetherness and how the city got together to build this beautiful exhibit. One part in the exhibit, a sign says "Detroit is a Pheonix". For those of you who don't know a Pheonix is a bird that dies by going up in flames and reborn from it's ashes.
That's my last thought for the night. Love and blessings.
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