Classes

So articulation is taking place right now and I think it's a stressful time of year but also a hopeful time when we all realize this chapter of our lives is coming to a close. A problem that my friend made me realize is do I want to take any of these classes? Do I think I can learn something or am I just trying to load up on hard classes to boost my GPA and help me get into a good college? Honestly it is the latter for me and I think a lot of other students. We're told what we're supposed to do, and guided along the way, but I really don't know what the right choice is. Isn't it almost luck? With millions of students applying to colleges can the advice be the same for every one of us? There are students with grades far above 4.0s and huge ambitions so how do I know what or what not to do. If I swamp my years of high school trying to work for a colleges approval will not taking that third year of Spanish count me out with a 4.5 or 4.8 GPA? I don't know is the answer to what are you taking next year, I am still trying to save my hopes I had for this year and it's difficult. I don't know what I've learned, I don't know what I'm going to learn but I know that whatever I do I'm going to work hard and make the best of it.

New Thoughts

I think when most Americans see women wearing hijabs and burkas or think of these Muslim garments we are saddened or feel bad as most Americans see them as a symbol of oppression, that's kind of what I felt as well. I just watched a Buzzfeed video that showed four non-muslim American women wearing hijabs for the first time and they shared their views. Their original outlook was similar to what I just described. A muslim women who has worn a hijab for nearly two decades came in to tell them about the hijab and instruct them and the ideas she had were no where near the same. She told of how the Hijab's purpose is derived from the Quran and that it is supposed to portray modesty concerning the women with importance of intellect and personality rather than physical beauty and sexuality. I never really saw it in this way.

The woman, Edina Lekovic opened up these four girls to a new thing and after experiencing a day in the hijab they had felt prejudged but also a feeling of unity and a humble, equal sense. The hijab is nothing to pitted and say to anyone "It's okay, you're in America." because it is their faith and respect for themselves that has them wear the hijab and it is their right to do as they please not their punishment.