My Dream Vacation

When I first picture my dream vacation and I really think of is tanning and swimming in a lake. That's all I need to be a happy camper, but if I could choose a place to do it at it would be Lake Tahoe. I have never been there but I always hear amazing things about it and when I was watching HGTV they made a dream home there and it looked absolutely beautiful if I could get that house there it would be a dream come true.

What attracts me to this lake is how pretty it is. The view of those mountains looks awesome I can only imagine what it would be like in person. When I looked up what to do there it was like a never ending list and white water rafting was on it I've never done that but I am 100% willing to try it out and a relaxing canoe ride wouldn't be bad either.

The story that is too funny  to me about Lake Tahoe is when my Econ professor (she was just funny I could never reenact that) talked about how she would get to go there for free with a company she use to work for. She would get the full spa treatment and her husband would golf all day long and the company covered it... now that is truly the best vacation. If something would concern me about going here it would be the cost of it all.

While writing this blog I actually started planning a vacation and talking my mom into having us go for our birthdays. EKKK maybe it will happen lol

Interniewing John Doe About Detroit

I interviewed John Doe, he was born in 1957 and he is a diverse minority. His experience is different from mine because he has spent more time in Detroit than I have and been in the middle of history being made, while I have only seen small changes at a time and maybe in the end it will have a monumental result. He has also been brought up in a raciest time period that focused on the whites and blacks being separated and I guess in a way so have I with all the gay rights movement happening, but to be quite honest I don't care how it turns out and John made it clear in his interview that he thinks the riots should have ended with segregation still being set in place.

When I interviewed him we talked about many things he had witnessed during the riots and I was somewhat in shock with some of the things that happened. I understood that there were riots in Detroit but I guess I wasn’t aware of how bad it was. He saw two groups of about 30 people fighting each other and no one was stopping it, he had to drive on the sidewalk to get away from it. After we talked about the riots he started telling me things that are happening in Detroit now. He couldn’t help but bring up Kwame Kilpatrick and how that level of corruption takes time to go away. When we talked about this I was more aware and educated about it because I am living through it. I feel like I do not know the legal side of any of these events just because mostly what I have learned is from other people or the news that will go back on what they say. The news confuses me sometimes and will correct themselves, in the end what if I miss the moment they corrected themselves and my idea on that situation is wrong. I hope with the interview with John and looking up true facts hopefully I will get a better idea on what’s going on in Detroit.

After this interview I found myself wondering what was said in the news and books on the 67 riots, I also was wondering what is going on in Detroit now that I don’t know about that John told me about in the interview.

The News and its Accuracy with Detroit

When it comes to Detroit everyone sees a lot of negative and with that can come fear. When I was little I thought that it was a scary, creepy, and evil place. My cousin, who lives in Kentucky, said to me, "So, you live in metro Detroit? Why don't you just say Detroit? That's basically where you live". I was offended because of how bad people think it is; I would never live in a place like that, but then again it isn't that terrible.

It took until I was there for a hockey game that I realized that Detroit isn't so bad it actually seems fun and with all the amazing food there it truly isn't that awful. The area I live in is known as Metro Detroit and this has always been my home. There is a lot I can do around here for fun such as; going to the Metro Parks that have many activities of their own in them, going to the movies, going to Detroit for all the sports events or ice skating (in the winter), or just walking to Dairy Queen. I love this place and a majority of the people in it. The thing I enjoy the most is hanging out with my friends and family doing the strangest things.

With good there is always some bad. The new never fails to remind me of this it such as how Kwame Kilpatrick robbed a lot of our tax dollars; along with him were many people stealing from the system and things like this I think the new is somewhat on track (not as much lying) as one many think. They can’t bend the truth when it is facts, however I have seen them not tell us the entire facts. They told a story about how a father stole his child from its mother and then the mom was found dead in her minivan in a river what they neglected to mention is that she was dating a cerial rapist and he was on the run from the cops, I found this out when I watched BBC new not my local station and that alone is unsettling.

The story I truly think the new couldn’t get their things straight happen right at my highschool. When I was a senior (last year) a girl committed suicide and the new claimed it was from bullying. She had sex with a guy and her mother found out, so the mother was going to sue him for statutory rape but when she went to the new she said that the guy raped her daughter and everyone at the highschool was bullying her, which wasn’t true. Before they could finish the trial she committed suicide and my town was looked at as a terrible place where we bullied a girl to her braking point. I can’t be naïve and say there wasn’t bullying but clearly she had a lot of other things that were putting pressure on her. The story is sad regardlous because she didn’t see a way out besides suicide and the news couldn’t even give her peace by telling her true story.

With that example I wonder how often they do twist a story for it attract more viewers. I can’t say the news only posts these negative things. They do tell us good things that communities are doing such as; food drives, parades, holidays, and good recipes. It seems like people don’t think of the good when they are thinking of the news because the bad stories are so horrific that they shine in a person’s memory. Detroit does have bad things that happen in it but if we took out Detroit we would be bummed because there are still fun things and amazing memories for us there.