The highlight of my day was signing up through "Y Serve" on campus with the TOPS program. Starting January 22nd, I will be volunteering with Wasatch Elementary in a first grade classroom tutoring the kids in reading for an hour on Tuesdays every week. I can even describe how excited I am to start working with these kids; I love the feeling of service, and I think it’ll be a great pick me up throughout the week. I also love working with kids, and I just really feel good about this and think that it will be a great opportunity.
Tonight we also had a Mary Kay representative come over to the apartment and give us facials and makeovers. Within her first ten minutes of being here she talked about how she only went to college to meet a husband and how her plan was to drop out of school as soon as she got married because “there was no point” to furthering her education.
As I start thinking about this, I honestly got so fired up. I don’t really have a lot of patience for women who don’t push themselves and challenge themselves to be the best they can be. An education is so important in today’s world and it’s pretty much necessary in order to get a job. For me personally, I want the highest education I can attain so that I can be a better mom to my kids and really help them in their education. I’m just not so sure that I support people who advertise so many beauty products and present them in a way that suggests all of these products are necessary for beauty. I just think that there is already so much pressure in the world for girls to be beautiful, and I don’t think all of this is helping. I believe that obsession with these things can really be a form of an idol. I don’t support it, not for one minute!
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