What’s been going on in the implementation of my project was very good. My project has opened my eyes of a whole knew world of learning.  I didn’t know helping someone could feel this amazing. Well I started off doing my research on near by homeless shelters and a found a few. I called and introduced myself and explained to them the task on my project I was willing to do in my class and they asked me when I could come out and meet with them. So we set up a time to meet for the easter holiday because I had work but I didn’t have school. After I came from that Sunday on Easter I went over to the homeless shelter the one that you can see going across the greater new orleans bridge called the Mission. I went with a family member becaus eI was scared and I didn’t know what to expect. I’m no going to lie when I first got in there I was scared out of my mind because the people living there were looking at me like look t her she think she rich, but they didn’t know I had came straight from chuch and thats why I was dressed like that, well I soon found out that that was a bad idea. Maybe I should’ve dressed down. After being there for a few hours I calm and relaxed and the workers there seemed to help me out a lot. They gave me things to do like setting up the food area and fixing the tables and organizing the lines and crowds of people that was piling in from outside. So I went around and helped and talked with some of the homeless people and many told me their story about why they were in the situation of being homeless in the first place. Some stories were about Katrina victims who ha d lost thier home ands families in the flood and didn’t have the means of getting back on their feet so they turned to drugs and alcohol to help with the reality of being an sleeping in the street every night with complete strangers and the dangers of crime in the streets of new orleans. Other stories was of and about men who had lot their jobs, wives, and children behind this terrible recession we are in. These men were saying how they were perfectly fine until they lost their jobs and couldn’t afford to keep thier homes and provide for thier families. These men wives ad actually left them because they had nothing left which rov these men to also turn to drugs and alcohol to cope with the feeling of losing everything they ever worked for. Some of these men really went crazy and lost their minds and they are actually standing on the street begging and talking to themselves. All of these horrible, but yet eye opening stories brought tears to my eyes, but there was this one lady who said it was embarrassing to see me cry over after hearing such stories so I to straighten up and wipe my tears and continue to do what I was there to do in the beginning. I didn’t want to make this visit a one time thing so every Tuesday I go and volunteer at the shelter and I learned my lesson. I don’t come dressed anymore. I’ve realized it makes them feel comfortable. I also bring food that mother collects at her job for me from her co-workers that helps out a lot. I also bring cakes and plenty of sweets because I know they like them. I also try to encourage my friends on myspace and facebook to do the same and find some kind of way to do their part in local communities, and really it doesn’t even have to be local, where ever you can help just find the time to do it. So overall I can say that my project is doing pretty well compared to some of the things I got going on in my life right now. I hope everyone is having just as much as success on their projects as I am having with mine. All it takes is one person in one lifetime.

I think this class pertains to my profession as teaching me as to what to do and not to do. I feel that if I learn something in this class a question might arise when I’m in my professional setting and i won’t have to worry because I will already have the answer to that question. I think all aspects of higher learning will have something to do with my future career choice because in the ending it all makes sense and add up with one another no matter what you are studying whether it be theology or history. They all are important and will catch up with you in some point in your life.

Feminist criticism is a useful tool because womans opinion can be helpful and useful in all aspects of life. I think it is very useful because back in colonial times when history schalors where researching and putting books out they didn’t find it very useful to use a womans opinion and I thought that was very sexist when some women are much smarter and much more intelligent and brighter than men. I think this critism is important because it goes back to the story of adam and eve and how she made adam take the wrong advice and eat the apple, so ever since that women have been marked with this terrible stereotype that women make bad decisions and their opinions don’t matter, but they fail to realize that behind closed doors these women are actually giving men advice in which they are taking it and doing good things with it but the men get all the praise and glory behind.

I think I did terrible on the midterm. I can’t beleive I studied that much and still made the grade I made. Hopefully I do better on the final. I also actually expected my final midterm grade to be much different being that I hadn’t turned in any blogs.

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