ymca

YMCA

I just started working at the Local Joplin YMCA. Going into this I didn’t know if I would like it at all. Growing up I was the baby in the family so I never had to deal with little siblings. So I have never really had experience with younger kids. So I predicted that it was going to be a great challenge on my first day. Going into my first day I was sitting the cafeteria at the school and was not feeling to good about this. As I’m weighting the girl walks through the door and introduces herself. She would be my other teacher I would be working with. I was still a little scared but I though well at least I get to work with this pretty gal.  The kids started showing up and I begun to realize this other teacher had a pretty good handle on the kids. Well I was thinking this won’t be nearly as bad as I though.  We went outside and played on the play ground. I was thinking this is great I get paid to play old school yard games I miss. Which it turned out to be a little more than that, but I was really surprised there was five little kids that came up to me and said I looked like they had seen me before. I began to figure out that they realized I playing football with The Missouri Southern lions, and they have seen me on game day before.  This was really cool for me because I’m just a redshirt freshman not getting that much playing time but these kids knew who I was.  Can’t imagine what it would be like to be Brandon Williams. Thought out that first day it went really well we played lots of games and the kids had a lot of fun. One of the hardest parts for me did not know everyone’s name. It’s really hard to discipline a kid for doing something wrong when you can’t even call them by their name. You’re not going to get respect from a kid by saying hey you you’re in trouble.  So one day down and I was ok with this job. I still didn’t really know if I liked it or not but it was promising. The next day I got to go back to the same school which I liked. I don’t like going to a different school every day. It’s just not very appealing to me. I like being at one school and getting to know the kids you are with. Which is what I got to do being with these kids for three days in a row. I really started to like a lot of them and you could tell they were starting to like me a lot too. It was nice to because I got to learn a lot of their names and it was a lot easier to be friends with them and play with them, but at the same time it was also nice when it came to being the teacher when you had to be stick with them. Over all I really like it.

interesting Egypt events

Gender Attitudes and Religious Mores in Egyptian Society

                Egypt views on religion, the opposite sex and many other things are very different from how we see them in United States. For example ninety present of their population is Muslim. But most of them have never ever read there holy book. The other ten percent are Christian. Which this was not as big of a surprise to me as what goes on between a man and women; in Egypt it is shamed upon if a woman is not a virgin. Witch was strange for me because the United States that is not a big deal for us we see girls having sex in high school and getting even younger every year. It’s not even that big of a deal. But over in Egypt it is completely different. One man that was interviewed said he would kill his sister if she lost her virginity before marriage. He was not joking at all. He really meant what he said. And he would really do it.  Which even in American there are protective brothers but they would be trying to kill the guy who took her virginity not her. But he might say he would kill her but he really wouldn’t. In Egypt that brother would kill her and go to jail but it would be worth it for his sister would have embarrassed his family’s name. Also in Egypt divorces is a lot different. Woman can apply for divorce but even if they get it they will never get their kids and never get a new husband.

HARAM! Unveiling the Mystery of the Forbidden Dance

                In American when you think of belly dancers there not a big deal, just something some girls do for fun. Some girls even do it to get in shape. But in Egypt it is a crime to be a belly dancer. It puts decrease on your family. So these girls have to do it in secret. It kind of like those underground dog or cage fights in American. But these girls do it because they love it. When I first walked into this event I thought it would just be like five dances. Not a real big number nothing to hard. But came to find out there were fifteen or more dances. This was really impressive for me because I do not know how they remember dancers could remember five dances that are at least five minutes long each. As the night went a long I became more and more impressed with each of these dances there was a story to go along with it. This was kind of nasty. They had a story of a pregnant girl and her birth of her baby. Another big surprise to me was how athletic these girls were. They were doing lots of things in these dances that were just in creditable.  They were fit and built well just like all the dancers are in America. They also must have a great memory. Each of the girls having at least five dances. This was a great event to go to.