31 of july - community organizing

In the afternoon, we heard Ojeda Hall-Philips speaking about the community organizing.

She’s a Professional Organizer for the Metro Industrial Areas Foundation and she was really interesting.

Why? Because she was really passionate about her job in community organizing and I could feel it when she was speaking.

I was also interested because I’ll do my internship in a community organizing in San Francisco so…I was waiting for that speaker.

Well, I learned that this community organizing thing (that I can’t find in my country) it’s a grassroots job, I mean, if you wanna work for a community organizing project, you mustn’t be afraid to work with communities, in their neighborhood and that you have to be PATIENT.

But it looks like a very interesting job where you can meet very interesting people…

The second part of this afternoon was particular because we had to find our research topics for our writing and most of all, the fellows with whom we must work (which is not an easy thing).

So we did a kind of “speed dating topic”: each turn, everyone spoke about their ideas that they had grown during the program.

Then, a big noisy, confusing, misunderstanding conversation came through between all the fellows LOL…

It sounded like “oh I like your idea, but I like your idea too, but I like this other idea too…you wanna be in my group?! But we’re full! …I don’t know what to do!”

After had written our 3 favorite topics, the big boss A.k.a Nick Farrell from NY decided.

Finally, I had my first choice for my research and I’m really happy with the fellows I’m going to work withJ. (like almost everyone I think).

Leila.