Finals!

This week is the official finals week! Thankfully, I only have two finals this week, two courses had alternatives to the traditional finals. My final for solid and hazardous waste management is today, the other (harder one) is on Friday. I hope to study at least 8-10 hours a day for the Friday exam in Environmental Chemistry. Please be saying lots of prayers for env. chem.!

I really liked my courses this semester, and it makes me slightly afraid of the coming Spring semester. I hope that I end up enjoying the course material as much as I have this semester. I still have one more class to select for the upcoming term, I will probably decide which course to take during winter break.

I will be staying in Bloomington, Indiana for break. I am going to try and work 60 to 80 hours a week, to help save up for a trip to Benin for the summer.

More tomorrow perhaps!

"Bad Hair"

A couple of weeks ago I was in Target getting headbands to hold back my hair. At the end of the aisle I stood in, there was a group of four teenage or pre-teenage Caucasian girls discussing matters related to petroleum-based products. One girl was explaining how a black friend used such products to do her hair - which was a cultural phenomenon to these young ladies. One girl said, I only feel bad for them, because if you have to use this it means you have "bad hair." Another girl shook her head in disagreement, and then the one who uttered the words about bad hair looked over and noticed me. Embarrassed, she covered the side of her face closest to me, and whispered to her friends. They quickly slid away, and I was left feeling personally discriminated against. It also made me paranoid about all Caucasians have latent racist thoughts like that. I found myself uncomfortable, and weary of others as I finished up my shopping. Racism hurts in personal ways.

That girl had essentially said all African American hair is "bad hair."

Good Hair, check it out.