Women
Studies
Journal
#1
1.
How do you feel about your body?
I
guess that I would have to say that I feel very positive about my body.
I know that I am way overweight, but I still feel healthy and I have no
problems with it. If someone says
something to me about it I do get hurt by it, but then I think that I am happy
and I really don’t care what other people think about me. The only thing that matters to me is that I like myself and
my family likes me.
Also, my friends like me for who I am and they don’t care
what I look like. There is a lot
more to a body than just the looks, there is the personally factor and I think I
have a great personally. I get
along with anyone and everyone, and I have friends that are completely different
from each other, but I can relate to any one of them.
I have grown up my whole life with a
big body and in some cases it has come in handy.
I was great at football with my body, I am not only fat but I have a lot
of muscle to go along with it.
I know that I am overweight, but at times I enjoy it.
You get a lot more respect being my size than being some one who is
small. I had a roommate my freshman year who was just a toothpick
and he got teased more for being small than I did for being big.
I would not change who I am for
anything, growing up with the body I got teased, but it made me a stronger
person and a better person. I look
back and see the kids who use to tease me and they are complete losers who are
doing nothing with their lives. Here
I am going to college making something of myself, so I just look and chuckle to
myself. I know later in life that I
may have heath problems, but I will worry about that later, right now I am
living life to the fullest.
2.
How much did you eat while reading this section?
How much exercise did you do?
I
did not eat a single thing while reading this section and I also did no exercise
while reading either. I sometimes
eat while I read, but to me it seems more like a distraction to eat while I
read. I lose track of where I am in
the reading and I don’t understand the material as well.
I
never exercise while I read for the same reasons.
I am not one of those people who can do that.
Workout on a machine and read at the same time.
When I exercise I like to just concentrate on one thing at a time, that
way I understand the material a whole lot better.
I
guess maybe I should try it sometime, but that would mean that I would have to
workout and I just don’t feel like doing that at this point in my life.
Being in college is hard for me to do homework, work and workout.
Although, I know a lot of people who workout everyday and work as much as
me. It is just something I want to
do right now and if you aren’t into it than you shouldn’t waste your time
doing it. If you are not going to
go all out at it, than why do it.
A.
Since I wrote the first part of the project I have had a couple of
setbacks and a couple of triumphs. The
first being that I miss class last week because I was sick, so I forgot about
the project. Before that week
though when I was thinking about it I had mentioned to my roommates a couple of
times when they made comments that pertained to my project.
I told them about it and asked them to not say things like that around
me, and ever since that they haven’t.
I
am proud of my roommates for doing that, although I don’t know if they think
about it or if the topic has not come up since then.
Either way it is a move in the right direction.
That is all I need to do is keep chipping away at it.
B.
I think that my project is going well for me and the only fear I have
with it is keeping at it. To not be
afraid to speak up when not only my friends but someone I don’t know says
something that is not appropriate. I
think that would be a big accomplishment for me if I were do something like
that. Another one would be to
confront my family when they say something inappropriate.
C.
I have already mentioned some of my goals already, but the only goal I
see is to just keep doing what I am doing.
That is the only way I can see to keep it going.
Another thing that I have coming up is tutoring Hispanic students in St.
James schools for the rest of the semester.
It will be nice to work first hand with them and to see how the students
in the school treat them. I can
hopefully make a difference there too with talking to them if they say something
that is not appropriate. I don’t
think that I will have trouble there, but if some arises than I need to be
prepared to say something to them.