More Boys and Girls

I wanted to write today about the whole gender thing again. We mentioned in class about young children, boys playing with trucks and girls playing with dolls and Easy Bake ovens in the kitchen. I think that as a child, one cannot decide what to play with unless they are infuenced by others. This of course refers to the parents. I think that if it were not for parents and other adults teaching thier children that boys play with manly thigns and girls love the color, then the boys and girls would be playing with everyhting. Case and point...I work at a preschool, so I see first hand what the children enjoy to play with. The boys run to the legos and blocks. Girls play with the little kitchen and have dolls in thier hands. But not all are like that. Just the other day two four year old boys went to the costume chest and asked me to help them put on fairy princess costumes (and the wings too!) I started laughing, and of course thought nothing negative about it. I thought it was great and thier teacher thought the same thing, saying "You know, I think it is great they can do that and experiment, it's nothing bad." Very true I think. That very same day during play time again, soem other boys went to the mirror/makeup station and pretended to brush their hair, like Cinderella or Sleeping Beauty they said. Tehy also pretended to put on lipstick too. Then I thought for a second how they came about to do those things. Was it from watchign all those princess Dsiney movies, listenign to the girls and watchign them play with all those things, the way thier parents treated them. I do not know. but it is definetly true that they must have recieved soem type of influence. Girls young fro ma young age the color fo pink and the significance it has to beign girly and cute and beautiful. One little girl three year old who always wears pink clothing and has her nails pink, was coloring a picture. Of course, she colored everyhting pink. I asked her why she always colored every picture pink. She said,"because I like it." "But why" I always tell her. "Because it is sooo beautiful," she explained in a cheerful voice. Tehn I told her, "but how do you know it is a beautiful color?" I knew the answer to this question but waited anyway. "Becasue my mommy tells me it is beautiful." And that is it. If her mom were to tell her the most beautiful color is black, she would show up everyday in black and proabably think pink is ugly. So it is us who creates these differences between males and females. I know I like to shop, dress well, get a manicure and pedicaure every once in a while, and put on makeup. But I wonder what brought me to do all that. I guess just growing up, seeign your other peer, what is on the television. Right now there is alot of fashion networks and celebrity gossip on whats the newest "it" thign to buy or look at. For us girls, it really takes control of us. We spend so much money on clothes then we even need to. But soemtimes we cannot help it. We want the newest fashion thing out and always want to look our best. It's weird. Personally, I do not thnik it is a bad thign to do all of these things, but its strange to sit back and actually relaize how much we are being influnced more and more each day. Same goes for guys I believe. They proabably are doign soemthign just because it is the macho thign to do, like playign basketball, watchign sports, dating soemone when they do not really wan to so they don't get teased from their firends for not havign a girlfriend. I think things like these are never going to stop. We are all just like wierd robots, doing whjat is expected of us, and not even thinkign anything of it.

Girls and Boys

Alot has changed between girls and guys. I htink we are all mixing together, when it comes to jobs and activities we like to do. We tlaked in class about metrosexuals, and I believe more and more guys are becomeing that way. Even though they do not want to admit it, they seem to care much more about thier appearance than ever before. It is not a bad thing. But still, I hti kguys who wear pink, or get thier eyebrows done, or goes tannign is a big no no. I don't know why. Like I said, it is not bad if they do, but that kind of guy is just not for me. I liek a guy who doesn't try so hard, but still looks great. I would like for him to care about how he looks, but the whole feminity thing that comes along, like a manicure, should just be for girls. I guess I'm old school like that. haha. But of course, for us girls, we should be able to do all those girly things, manicure, pedicaure, massages, facials, tanning, shopping, and more shopping. lol. I may not be a girly girl, but I do like doing all those things. It's in our nature for girls to like and do all these things. Tha's what makes us girls. Right? maybe? I don't know. But then again, guys and girls can act however they want. People are proabably going to judge you anyone, so do whateevr it is you feel and want!

Snow Day!

I really did not think it would snow at all until I saw the flurries last night. I've had my hopes up before about gettign snow. So I'm happy to have a day today, especially since I have classes five days a week. I work at a preschool, so it was closed too. I feel like a little kid so excited about a snow day and not going to school. So it was a very relaxing day. I just got up from my nap (yeah I take naps whenever I have a chance hehe) and now finishign up on some work I need to do. talk to all of you soon! oh yeah, Happy Valentines Day everyone! Hope everyone spent it with someone special, and if not, don't worry. This day is too overanalyzed anyway...

Random Stuff

So I am really excited because I just found out I am going to Egypt this summer. I love traveling nad hopefully I could do alot of that in the future. I went to Egypt about five years ago with my brother and sister, so I am happy now my whole family will be able to go. I usually never get excited about vacations and then I end up having a great time. but now that I am looking foward to it, hopefully I don't jinx it. Well whatever. I was hoping to see Freedom Writers this weekend, but wasn't able to. I saw Pursuit of Happyness on Christmas day. It was soooo good. I had to hold back from crying so hard. Will Smith and his son did a fantastic job. Anyone who hasn't seen it yet really should. I really need to get started on Kite Runner. I have only gone up to Chapter 2. The story is getting interesting. I'll do some readign tonight.

<3 Nabila

Alittle Something to Think About

I'm not surprised the US has not taken any actions against the genocide occuring in Darfur. We always seem to think that we have much more problems than anyone else. But to be honest, nothing occuring in this country comes close to what is happening in Africa, not even close. Yes it is true this situation is not of our concern, but then whos concern is it? Is it just the people beign killed, the women being raped, kids being stabbed, and fathers salughtered in front of thier loved ones. Is it that simple to turn our heads and pretend it is not a big issue. Should the US start to be concerned once the killing rate reaches eleven million, as it did in the Holocaust? We cannot let history repeat itself like this anymore. Way too many people are dying now. ithink it is time for this country to become a feidn to another. This world needs helpful hands once and a while, and at this time, hopefully someone will lend that hand. I don't think it is a horrible thingto help another country. And knowign that in the process we could save the lives of the innocent and defeat the evils, yeah, it's not so horrible.

Mengele's Children

The infamous doctor during the Holocaust, Dr. Josef Mengele, experimented on so many innocent Jews, many did not survive once they entered his office. He had a deep interest in twins that he made it his main focus for deathly experiments and during selections. He wanted the world to know his name, so he decided to seek information about the secrets of heredity. He thought since many Aryan women gave birth to twins, mostly blonde hair and blue eyes, he could help aid the rest of the future. Although it is quite clear that twins were put through horrfic experiments, they were not treated horribly like the rest of the Jews in Aushwitz. Officials allowed them to keep thier own hair and even keep thier clothing. They were known as messengers and did not have to go through the hard labor many others went through. Unfortunately, twins had to go through a daily routine of taking out an immense amount of blood from thier fingers and arms. This was not good for very small children. it seemed like there were many pros and cons to being a twin. But in the end, few twins made it out alive from Aushwitz.

To read more of the twins of Auschwitz, you can go to http://history1900s.about.com/od/auschwitz/a/mengeletwins.htm



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