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Section VI. Data Analysis and Findings

In taking notes and observations, I noticed many things that I wouldn't have observed in any other projects or even in my process of going into different places. While visiting my community placement site (DSNI), I could say that it was a place that anyone could feel welcomed. When I walked inside the building with my partner, Erin Johnson, I could tell this was a place of business. There weren't any cubicles at all, but desks, rolling chairs, and computers! Within seeing this, I could tell that, the DSNI members could communicate more with each other because they can easily see each other. On these desks, I could see many papers that were organized waiting to be looked at. Each desk has a black phone on it and either a personal or a regular big one. From the front door, on my right, was John Barros' office (head leader) and to the left was a little office that contained a big screen television, a computer placed on a brown desk, a dvd/vcr and a big planning board. When I seen this board, I though to myself that these people are really making change in the Dudley neighborhood. The planning board had a huge sketch of a building that was probably going to be built somewhere in Roxbury. I didn't know that they designed buildings too. To the side of that same room, was Meg's office; a head leader of DSNI. In front of her office is one row of the other members' desk; one of the members I met. Sitting on his chair was a Cape Verdean member busily talking on the phone with one of his community clients. At DSNI, there are many members from different backgrounds that can communicate to the community. Since we went in the morning, there weren't many people there because they come in the afternoon. Our placement coordinator, Travis had showed us around the office and talked to us about what they do and what we're going to be doing. Looking at the end of the huge office, I saw a little kitchen that had a huge meting table, a mini-fridge and a water bubbler. At the left of that, there were more planning boards that had sketches of new buildings. There was a banner that read: Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative glued on the wall. There were pictures all over the office of the events that they had and residents of the community that were involved. There were also little things like flyers and updates on what the DSNI members are going to do. Around 2p.m. other members started coming in and Travis introduced us to them; some old and some young. Travis introduced us to one of the younger members that worked here and we got aquatinted. The rest of the time, I read through packets on violence and behaviors with the youth and adults and wrote interview questions, based on what I read. The following Wednesday that Erin and I went back to DSNI, there were people hanging in front of the building; three dudes and a woman. We got to the building around 11p.m. and we went straight to Travis' office. When we opened the door, the same Cape Verdean guy welcomed us in. He told us to wait for Travis because he was in a meeting. So, Erin and I went to the kitchen, not far from Travis's desk and discussed w hat we should do that evening. When Travis was done he apologized for taking so long. He introduced us to the person that he had the meeting with and we started talking. At that point, I had remembered that we needed to interview people, so I asked her and she said yes. We explained what we were doing for our project and told her the type of questions that we were going to ask. After I interviewed her, Travis suggested that we go out to the neighborhood and interview people on the streets. We figured that would be a great idea because we would get a better perspective from the "real" people of Boston. He suggested that we go to the local deli because everybody goes, especially around that time. The deli was right down the street, so Erin and I went. When went there, the place was packed, and everybody was looking at us and we knew why. People can tell when someone is not from their territory. We didn't feel comfortable, so we ordered food and left. We thought about it and suggested that we walk on Dudley Street and find people that we could interview. Nobody was on the street, so we kept walking on the street until we found somebody. While walking, we seen Piggy's memorial next to one of the park's benches. On Dudley Street, what I observed was brick buildings, parks, schools, bus stops, hundreds of cars parked, cars whizzing by and "feens" (people that want drugs). Dudley We walked until the street ended on Columbia Road to interview people. It was getting cold so we walked back towards the building; we had found one girl to interview. After we interviewed her, we went back to the building to work on other interviews. We see a Cape Verdean woman that was meeting one of the DSNI members and asked her if we could interview her. Erin did the interview and thanked her and then I interviewed another woman that was coming in. I told her what we were doing and she gladly participated. When we done with that interview we talked to Travis about our next meeting and we left.

 
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