{"id":12177,"date":"2014-10-01T03:03:36","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/blog\/courtneymccall\/?p=4"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:03:36","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:03:36","slug":"from-roll-tide-to-detroit-pride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/from-roll-tide-to-detroit-pride\/","title":{"rendered":"From Roll Tide to Detroit Pride"},"content":{"rendered":"

I couldn’t believe I was finally leaving my only home– Alabama. I had been dreaming about the moment I would leave my parents’ house and officially start my life. Many of my college friends had done it, and I believed that it was finally my turn.\u00a0It was after endless amounts of prayer that I had stepped off a plane in early June to start my Detroit journey as an art direction intern at Commonwealth\/\/McCann. Soon after, I found that my summer experience had been personally handcrafted by God to prepare me for my first year of living in Detroit. I made new relationships, ate great food, learned important history, and witnessed real passion. This was a great introduction to my future.<\/p>\n

With great support from my family and friends, I packed up my car and drove for 13 hours to my new home. It’s been\u00a0a month\u00a0and I can’t say I regret it. Even though\u00a0I miss the important people in my life who taught me everything I know, \u00a0I’m so grateful to have had the privilege to learn from them. I am now a Marketing Fellow at Plante Moran, where I am learning everyday how to speak to audiences in a dynamic way. I have a wonderful roommate who welcomed me into our home with great kindness. I have an inspiration\u00a0boyfriend who encourages growth in\u00a0my faith and talents. I have a family (mixed with relatives and close friends) who will fight for me until the end. I can’t say that \u00a0I don’t look\u00a0forward to continuing the journey I started in June and shifting into my purpose.<\/p>\n

To end on a lighter note, here are the top 5 things I love about Detroit so far:<\/p>\n

1. Bucharest Chicken Shawarmas<\/p>\n

2. The view at the Riverfront’<\/p>\n

3. Ford Drive-In (Mainly since I had never been to one before)<\/p>\n

4. Diversity of cultures<\/p>\n

5. Large amount of artwork (graffiti, sculptures, buildings, etc)<\/p>\n

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God Bless!<\/p>\n

– Courtney<\/p>\n

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Host Company Swag @ Plante Moran\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n

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I couldn’t believe I was finally leaving my only home– Alabama. I had been dreaming about the moment I would leave my parents’ house and officially start my life. Many of my college friends had done it, and I believed that it was finally my turn.\u00a0It was after endless amounts of prayer that I had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}