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The summer of 2023 was an up and a down.
I wasn't able to go to Azerbaijan because of visa issues which were all of my own making.
But I did go to Michigan for a week and help out Sports Reach's Zac Arrington in Hamtramck which is just outside of Detroit.
Hamtramck is the first majority Muslim city in the USA with a Muslim city council and Muslim Mayor.
Hamtramck was first full of Polish immigrants, but it has changed drastically with Yemani and other Arab groups moving in.
I got off the interstate after driving through Detroit, but when I drove through Hamtramck most of the businesses were in English with Arabic underneath in parentheses.
Lots of women were wearing burkas, the full length hijab which I had seen before even in the USA, but not this many.
The kids were a little rambunctious, didn't really want to be there at times, the basketball court was outside and we had no cover from the heat, but I enjoyed it.
Kids are kids and you have to understand that, and I do, maybe I am just becoming the bitter old man as I age.
I don't know if I will go back, but it wouldn't be bad if I did.
