Week of April of th 18th and April 23rd
Last Two Week Blogs
Suicide
AnaMaria blog about her situation was so hard to read, my heart was so overwhelmed with hurt for her. This is so upfront, that I feel that it will change how I view people different from me and that we do not know how and what people have been through in their lives. We are not supposed to judge but as humans I feel it is in us to do it without even thinking about first. I will take the information AnaMaria gave us and use it to help others to seek help for the issues that have them thinking about taking their own lives. This is something serious and need to pay close attention to because we could be sitting right next to someone whom may not be alive the next day due to taking their own lives. I commend AnaMaria for being open with the class about her past and future, so thanks to her for opening up my eyes to the subject of suicide.
Service Learning Project
The Eastside Community project is one that needed to looked at and so we took it upon ourselves to find out peoples reaction to the new and coming changes of the central Austin formerly known as east Austin. Many do not refer to it by central east Austin, including me I still and will continue to refer to it as East Austin. Personally I wanted to get inside look at what people really thought especially the African American community, that were born and raised in East Austin. During the project it was a surprising outcome of what the few people I interviewed thought about the changes, it truly was a surprise to me. The results had a spin on what we thought these group of people would with what they actually felt and how they believe in those changes. We decided to pose questions on how they felt communication should be implemented with upcoming changes to the East Austin and how those plans of changes should involve the African American who feel they are being left  out and or remove from an environment that they built together as a African American and their roots. As we read the article on Individual and Family Intervention skills, it talked about how in African culture is rooted in a spirituality relationships with human beings and how their was or is a need to live in harmony. African Americans deal with many things in life by gracing life with spirituality beliefs and praying about things instead of literally acting on things that may have a negative effect on their future, being okay with what is to come and accepting changes as good changes and that God has his hands on the situation. I do feel myself when things are too much for me to handle, or things just seems to high for me to reach and debate, I pray and allow some changes to take place. Basically leaving our lives and our future in the hands of someone, who has no idea what being African American is about and what we've been through and where we're going.