Topic: Focal Vocabulary
Source: When I came to Humboldt State this year for my first semester of college, I learned how to tell where people live at home from certain words that they use.
Relation: In Chapter 4 of our Anthropology book, Robbins says according to Sapir and Whorf, vocabulary reflects a person's social and physical environment.
Description: At the start of this year I had to come up to Humboldt State during early August for the men's soccer team preseason. One night we were all out to dinner at Apple-bees and I was talking with a couple guys on the team. I was telling them about one of friends from home and my teammates stopped me and interrupted. They said you must be from northern California, Oregon, or Washington. I was confused and asked them why. My friends responded by saying that they noticed I use the word "hella" in my vocabulary. They continued to explain that only people from Northern California and up the west coast use the word "hella". People from southern California hate the word "hella" and refuse to use it. Coming from Washington I had no clue that there was even beef over that word. I started to think about words that I could tell people were from southern California and the word "gnarly" instantly came to own mind. From my person experience here, everyone that I have met and uses the term "gnarly" is from southern California.
Commentary/Analysis: Before I came down to Humboldt State University, I lived in Washington state all of my life. Growing up my friends and I developed our own sort of slang language that we used. As I got older and entered high school terms like "hella" were just naturally in my vocabulary and I have no clue how or when I integrated them. I had no clue before I came down here that people from southern California do not use the word "hella". I guess I never really paid that much attention to it before but when it was pointed out to me I could really tell. As my year went on, I found myself being able to somewhat tell where people were from. All I had to do was listen to simple slang terms that they use without even noticing it. People who live in the same relative area will usually have very similar ways of talking compared to people who far away. My brother told me a story about when he visited Alabama everybody would use the term "ya'll". Where you are from really controls how you talk and people from the same area can usually tell others apart from those that are not.
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Sunday, April 29, 2012
Rookie Season
Topic: Rites of Passage
Source: This weeks reading in the Anthropology book about Rites of Passage.
Relation: I just finished my rookie season for the Humboldt State soccer team and in order for myself and the other rookies to become not rookies we had certain obligations throughout the year. Every rookie that comes into the program had to do these jobs and even the coaches have done them. The Rite of Passage is graduating from a rookie to a full player on the team.
Description: Everybody that plays a sport can tell you what being a rookie is like. This year on the soccer team we had around fifteen new rookies. This is a crazy amount compared to a normal incoming rookie class that usually looks like five to eight rookies. This Sunday we finished up our final spring season games which officially makes all the rookies now graduated into not being one anymore. But, before getting out of the rookie status there were a ton of things that we had to do. The first one was our rookie night right before the fall season. The upperclassmen tricked us and said that we were going on a run to Eureka at the end of double days. All of the rookies showed up, all tired from practice and we were the most sore we had ever been. Dreading the run we all had low spirits and bad attitudes. We all arrived at one of the soccer houses. Everybody was dressed in running clothes. Our captains came out and said we had to have a team meeting in the back of the house. We walked to the back and they explained that we were not going to be running to Eureka. Instead we were going to be having the traditional rookie night. A lot of the activities I can not discuss but it is a night that I can barely remember but will never forget. That was the first of the rookie obligations. For the rest of the year all rookies were in charge of cleaning up after practice, carrying the ball bags and the medical kit when we travel, and basically doing whatever the coaches and upperclassmen told us to do. We were each assigned specific jobs after practice which included moving and locking the goals, picking up the training tops, counting and gathering all the practice balls, and cleaning the locker room. These jobs do not seem too bad but after a full season they really get annoying and most of the rookies got fed up with it.
Commentary/Analysis: Going through my rookie season was a great opportunity to grow not only as a person but also as a player on the pitch. The obligations that we had to do as rookies were really repetitive time after time. It really was horrible because if one of the jobs were not completed the whole team would have to run the next day at practice. I don't know about anyone else but being yelled at by the upperclassmen for making the whole team run is not fun whatsoever. I remember my coaches told us at the beginning of the year that rookie season will be one of the most fun but also requires the most work. The best thing to do is to shut up and just to the extra little work. Everybody has had to do it once in their lives and it is apart of being a rookie. The best part of it is to know that next year I will be making the rookies do all the work and none of the jobs will pertain to me anymore. Going through rookie night and picking up after the team was definitely not a super fun experience but everybody has do to it and I am glad I will never have to do it again.
Source: This weeks reading in the Anthropology book about Rites of Passage.
Relation: I just finished my rookie season for the Humboldt State soccer team and in order for myself and the other rookies to become not rookies we had certain obligations throughout the year. Every rookie that comes into the program had to do these jobs and even the coaches have done them. The Rite of Passage is graduating from a rookie to a full player on the team.
Description: Everybody that plays a sport can tell you what being a rookie is like. This year on the soccer team we had around fifteen new rookies. This is a crazy amount compared to a normal incoming rookie class that usually looks like five to eight rookies. This Sunday we finished up our final spring season games which officially makes all the rookies now graduated into not being one anymore. But, before getting out of the rookie status there were a ton of things that we had to do. The first one was our rookie night right before the fall season. The upperclassmen tricked us and said that we were going on a run to Eureka at the end of double days. All of the rookies showed up, all tired from practice and we were the most sore we had ever been. Dreading the run we all had low spirits and bad attitudes. We all arrived at one of the soccer houses. Everybody was dressed in running clothes. Our captains came out and said we had to have a team meeting in the back of the house. We walked to the back and they explained that we were not going to be running to Eureka. Instead we were going to be having the traditional rookie night. A lot of the activities I can not discuss but it is a night that I can barely remember but will never forget. That was the first of the rookie obligations. For the rest of the year all rookies were in charge of cleaning up after practice, carrying the ball bags and the medical kit when we travel, and basically doing whatever the coaches and upperclassmen told us to do. We were each assigned specific jobs after practice which included moving and locking the goals, picking up the training tops, counting and gathering all the practice balls, and cleaning the locker room. These jobs do not seem too bad but after a full season they really get annoying and most of the rookies got fed up with it.
Commentary/Analysis: Going through my rookie season was a great opportunity to grow not only as a person but also as a player on the pitch. The obligations that we had to do as rookies were really repetitive time after time. It really was horrible because if one of the jobs were not completed the whole team would have to run the next day at practice. I don't know about anyone else but being yelled at by the upperclassmen for making the whole team run is not fun whatsoever. I remember my coaches told us at the beginning of the year that rookie season will be one of the most fun but also requires the most work. The best thing to do is to shut up and just to the extra little work. Everybody has had to do it once in their lives and it is apart of being a rookie. The best part of it is to know that next year I will be making the rookies do all the work and none of the jobs will pertain to me anymore. Going through rookie night and picking up after the team was definitely not a super fun experience but everybody has do to it and I am glad I will never have to do it again.
Sunday, April 15, 2012
Two Families Unite
Topic: Family Composition
Source: When I was in first grade, I remember one of my teachers assigned us a project that involved trying to draw your whole family on a big poster.
Relation: In Chapter 5 of Robbins the author discusses the patterns of family relations. We learned about the family compositions of three peoples: the Ju/wasi, the Trobriand Islanders, and the rural Chinese. We examined the structure and dynamics of family life among these cultures.
Description: My first grade teacher assigned us a project that would help my class share their own families with everyone. For the project we were given a big white poster and then we had to creatively put everyone in our family that we could think of on it. This included the nuclear family and also my mom and my dad's side of the family as well. I remember sitting at home with this big white poster in front of me and I had no clue where to start. I started with my nuclear family first. I used blue marker to color everyone in my own family. I wanted to make a clear separation in both sides of family so I used green marker for my dad's side and red for my mom's side. My nuclear family consists of my mom, dad, and older brother. I then moved onto drawing each side of my family. My mom had to help me because I did not know all of my aunt's and uncle's yet. Once I was done with both sides of the family I took a moment, stepped back and admired all the work I just put in.
Commentary/Analysis: I feel that my family composition is a very unique one. My mother's heritage consists of half Hispanic, Irish, and a little Argentinian. My dad's side consists or Norwegian, Finish, and German. In my nuclear family my mother looks very dark skinned and so does my brother. My dad is more lighter skinned and that is where I believe I got most of my looks. When I grew up I always found it fascinating that when I went and visited my family on my mom's side, all of them are really dark skinned and Hispanic. Their culture is very different then my dad's side of the family. My mom's side tends to be more outgoing and be louder. My dad's side tends to be more conservative and more modest. We would go out to dinner with all of my cousins and my dad and I would be the only light skinned people there. I found it really interesting that when surrounded by all of my family on that side of the family I stood out as different because I was lighter skinned. Now on the other hand when we would go and visit my dad's side of the family, most of my family members there are lighter skinned. My brother and mom tend to be the only darker skinned people when we all get together. Lastly, one of the things that has fascinated me the most about my family composition is how I am lighter skinned and my brother darker skinned. It really baffles me because I do not really look like my brother at all but we have the same parents.
Source: When I was in first grade, I remember one of my teachers assigned us a project that involved trying to draw your whole family on a big poster.
Relation: In Chapter 5 of Robbins the author discusses the patterns of family relations. We learned about the family compositions of three peoples: the Ju/wasi, the Trobriand Islanders, and the rural Chinese. We examined the structure and dynamics of family life among these cultures.
Description: My first grade teacher assigned us a project that would help my class share their own families with everyone. For the project we were given a big white poster and then we had to creatively put everyone in our family that we could think of on it. This included the nuclear family and also my mom and my dad's side of the family as well. I remember sitting at home with this big white poster in front of me and I had no clue where to start. I started with my nuclear family first. I used blue marker to color everyone in my own family. I wanted to make a clear separation in both sides of family so I used green marker for my dad's side and red for my mom's side. My nuclear family consists of my mom, dad, and older brother. I then moved onto drawing each side of my family. My mom had to help me because I did not know all of my aunt's and uncle's yet. Once I was done with both sides of the family I took a moment, stepped back and admired all the work I just put in.
Commentary/Analysis: I feel that my family composition is a very unique one. My mother's heritage consists of half Hispanic, Irish, and a little Argentinian. My dad's side consists or Norwegian, Finish, and German. In my nuclear family my mother looks very dark skinned and so does my brother. My dad is more lighter skinned and that is where I believe I got most of my looks. When I grew up I always found it fascinating that when I went and visited my family on my mom's side, all of them are really dark skinned and Hispanic. Their culture is very different then my dad's side of the family. My mom's side tends to be more outgoing and be louder. My dad's side tends to be more conservative and more modest. We would go out to dinner with all of my cousins and my dad and I would be the only light skinned people there. I found it really interesting that when surrounded by all of my family on that side of the family I stood out as different because I was lighter skinned. Now on the other hand when we would go and visit my dad's side of the family, most of my family members there are lighter skinned. My brother and mom tend to be the only darker skinned people when we all get together. Lastly, one of the things that has fascinated me the most about my family composition is how I am lighter skinned and my brother darker skinned. It really baffles me because I do not really look like my brother at all but we have the same parents.
Sunday, April 1, 2012
Soccer Pre-Game Ritual
Topic: Rituals
Source: My pre-game ritual that I perform before I every soccer game I play in.
Relation: In chapter 33 in the book Conformity and Conflict, Horace Miner describes the body rituals among the Nacirema people. Some of the rituals include the mouth-rite and seeking out the holy-mouth-man, and the latipso ceremonies. The people think the mouth-rite rituals will free their mouths from evil demons and they use it as sort of an exorcism.
Description: Before every soccer game that I play whether it is for Humboldt State University or my academy team back home in Washington, I perform the exact same ritual. The ritual starts right when I wake up. The first thing I do is go and get breakfast. I always eat eggs, orange juice, and peanut butter and jelly sandwich. After eating my food I go and take a shower. In the shower I close my eyes and vision myself making great plays happen and having success. After the shower I put on my favorite athletic shorts and a dri fit shirt. I listen to music on my way to the field and it must be played through headphones. When I get to the field I do not step on the field until I am fully changed. I put my right sock on first every time and the same goes with my right shoe as well. I tape my right wrist with athletic tape and I put on my warmup shirt. I do not put on my jersey and shinguards until right before the game starts.
Commentary/Analysis: I perform the same ritual every day before my games because I believe in superstition. I like doing the exact same thing every time because in my own mind it gives me positive vibes and I am really successful. My ritual may be different then other people but I choose to use mine because it works best for me. If I do no get my full ritual in before my game I can feel that something is not right. Something is a little off and it usually bugs me and I do not perform as well. The Nacirema believed that their rituals would relieve the person of evil demons. I believe that my rituals give me good luck and positive energy. The differences between my rituals and the rituals of the Nacirema people differ greatly but they are similar in one way. The rituals work perfect for ourselves and we believe in them.
Source: My pre-game ritual that I perform before I every soccer game I play in.
Relation: In chapter 33 in the book Conformity and Conflict, Horace Miner describes the body rituals among the Nacirema people. Some of the rituals include the mouth-rite and seeking out the holy-mouth-man, and the latipso ceremonies. The people think the mouth-rite rituals will free their mouths from evil demons and they use it as sort of an exorcism.
Description: Before every soccer game that I play whether it is for Humboldt State University or my academy team back home in Washington, I perform the exact same ritual. The ritual starts right when I wake up. The first thing I do is go and get breakfast. I always eat eggs, orange juice, and peanut butter and jelly sandwich. After eating my food I go and take a shower. In the shower I close my eyes and vision myself making great plays happen and having success. After the shower I put on my favorite athletic shorts and a dri fit shirt. I listen to music on my way to the field and it must be played through headphones. When I get to the field I do not step on the field until I am fully changed. I put my right sock on first every time and the same goes with my right shoe as well. I tape my right wrist with athletic tape and I put on my warmup shirt. I do not put on my jersey and shinguards until right before the game starts.
Commentary/Analysis: I perform the same ritual every day before my games because I believe in superstition. I like doing the exact same thing every time because in my own mind it gives me positive vibes and I am really successful. My ritual may be different then other people but I choose to use mine because it works best for me. If I do no get my full ritual in before my game I can feel that something is not right. Something is a little off and it usually bugs me and I do not perform as well. The Nacirema believed that their rituals would relieve the person of evil demons. I believe that my rituals give me good luck and positive energy. The differences between my rituals and the rituals of the Nacirema people differ greatly but they are similar in one way. The rituals work perfect for ourselves and we believe in them.
Sunday, February 26, 2012
Christmas in California
Topic: Tradition
Source:
My junior year I went to California and spent Christmas with my mother's side of the family.
Relation:
Our reading on Japanese hip-hop in Conformity and Conflict(CH. 36).
Description:
All the way up until my junior year, I spent Christmas at home with my close family. We decided that we were going to travel down to California and spend Christmas with my mom's side of the family this time to change things up. My dad's side of the family is mostly German and Norwegian and my mom's side is mostly Hispanic. We arrived three days before Christmas day. I remember I loved being in California because the weather was hot and sunny, a huge change from the snow and rain in Seattle. On Christmas Eve I went to a huge outdoor fiesta that was held at my great aunt's house. Most of my aunts and cousins that were women were working in the kitchen and cooking up a huge meal. We had homemade tamales, tortillas, rice, beans, and asada soft tacos. I am a huge fan of Mexican food and having real authentic food was delicious. The fiesta was filled with a lot of people from my mom's side of the family. I felt like I kept meeting more and more cousins that I was not introduced to before. We stayed for a couple hours and then went back to my mom's old house for a special surprise. A tradition in her family is that all of the kids get to open a present the night before Christmas. I opened up mine and received a new video game. We went to sleep for the night. Christmas morning we woke up really early and went to church. We went to a church where the mass was said only in Spanish. I had never been to church before when they did not speak English. I could understand some of the words but the priest spoke to fast for me to understand it all.
Commentary/Analysis:
Before I went to California to visit my family and spend Christmas with them I was unaware of the fact that everyone spends Christmas differently. Everybody has their own specific family traditions that last a lifetime. Going to my family's fiesta on Christmas Eve was something that my close family and I had never done together. Eating the authentic food was amazing and meeting all my cousins was really great. I was surprised when we went home and got to open one present before Christmas. It made me realize that everyone has their own little specific traditions. Back at home in Washington our tradition of Christmas Eve is to have a steak dinner and play poker together as a family. The moment that surprised me the most was when we went to the mass that was spoken in Spanish. I took Spanish my freshman and sophomore year so I knew a little bit but was nowhere close to understanding the whole mass. It really opened up my eyes to see how my mom's side of the family is different from my close family but still we share similarities. At home in Washington we do attend mass on Christmas but it is spoken in English. Overall, my time spent in California for Christmas really helped me embrace my mom's side of the family. I got to see how they spend Christmas and they were very welcoming and helping along the way. It was really interesting to see just even the little things that different families do for holidays.
Source:
My junior year I went to California and spent Christmas with my mother's side of the family.
Relation:
Our reading on Japanese hip-hop in Conformity and Conflict(CH. 36).
Description:
All the way up until my junior year, I spent Christmas at home with my close family. We decided that we were going to travel down to California and spend Christmas with my mom's side of the family this time to change things up. My dad's side of the family is mostly German and Norwegian and my mom's side is mostly Hispanic. We arrived three days before Christmas day. I remember I loved being in California because the weather was hot and sunny, a huge change from the snow and rain in Seattle. On Christmas Eve I went to a huge outdoor fiesta that was held at my great aunt's house. Most of my aunts and cousins that were women were working in the kitchen and cooking up a huge meal. We had homemade tamales, tortillas, rice, beans, and asada soft tacos. I am a huge fan of Mexican food and having real authentic food was delicious. The fiesta was filled with a lot of people from my mom's side of the family. I felt like I kept meeting more and more cousins that I was not introduced to before. We stayed for a couple hours and then went back to my mom's old house for a special surprise. A tradition in her family is that all of the kids get to open a present the night before Christmas. I opened up mine and received a new video game. We went to sleep for the night. Christmas morning we woke up really early and went to church. We went to a church where the mass was said only in Spanish. I had never been to church before when they did not speak English. I could understand some of the words but the priest spoke to fast for me to understand it all.
Commentary/Analysis:
Before I went to California to visit my family and spend Christmas with them I was unaware of the fact that everyone spends Christmas differently. Everybody has their own specific family traditions that last a lifetime. Going to my family's fiesta on Christmas Eve was something that my close family and I had never done together. Eating the authentic food was amazing and meeting all my cousins was really great. I was surprised when we went home and got to open one present before Christmas. It made me realize that everyone has their own little specific traditions. Back at home in Washington our tradition of Christmas Eve is to have a steak dinner and play poker together as a family. The moment that surprised me the most was when we went to the mass that was spoken in Spanish. I took Spanish my freshman and sophomore year so I knew a little bit but was nowhere close to understanding the whole mass. It really opened up my eyes to see how my mom's side of the family is different from my close family but still we share similarities. At home in Washington we do attend mass on Christmas but it is spoken in English. Overall, my time spent in California for Christmas really helped me embrace my mom's side of the family. I got to see how they spend Christmas and they were very welcoming and helping along the way. It was really interesting to see just even the little things that different families do for holidays.
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Two Different Worlds
Topic: Cultural Text - Soccer
Source: My observations from my trip to Brazil about how the soccer culture there differs from the soccer culture here in the United States.
Relation: As discussed in Chapter One: Culture and Meaning from Robbins, a cultural text is a way of thinking about a culture as a text of significant symbols such as words, gestures, drawings, and natural objects that carry meaning.
Description: Last summer I took a week long trip down to Sau Paulo, Brazil to visit one of my good friends, Bruno da Matta. Bruno currently lives in San Diego but his mother and father were born in Brazil and own a house there. My parents bought my tickets and told me that it was my graduation present. I could not have received a better present. I graduated high school and a week later I was off to Brazil with two of my other really good friends who also play soccer. After a very long 13 and half hours we finally landed in Sau Paulo. This was the second time I was out of the country. The first was visiting Canada. I did not know what to expect. Bruno and his family picked us up and we were off to there house. The da Matta's speak Portuguese as their first language but also speak fluent English which made it easy to communicate with them. As we drove I remember looking out the window and seeing how much different Brazil was then the United States. The monuments and statues were impeccable and simply stunning. We arrived and Bruno's house and unpacked all of our stuff. I knew the da Matta's were huge soccer fans but I did not know the extremes of their passion and love for the game. Their whole house was very eloquently decorated but different from a traditional American decorated house. Bruno, my two friends, and I walked down to a soccer field one day to play. I remember on our way, we saw people ranging from little kids to adults playing little pickup games in the streets. They used makeshift goals and many would play bare foot. I looked up at the billboards we passed and mostly all of them were advertisements for soccer. When we got to the field, we joined a random pick up game. Everybody was playing with so much heart and dedication even though it was just a game that did not matter. We played for hours until it got dark and then we went back to his house.
Commentary/Analysis: Looking back at my week long trip to Brazil now, I discovered that I can use the beautiful game of soccer as a cultural text. In the United States soccer is growing in popularity but it is no where as popular compared to big time sports such as football, basketball, and baseball. I learned that even in college sports the popularity of the sport determines how much funding it is going to receive. For instance big football programs get all of the nicest equipment, training facilities, and most of their games on television. They get these privileges because the sport is extremely popular and rich boosters want to donate all the money they can to see the program succeed. The United States has always been raised like that though and soccer has never really been at the top of the popularity list. On the other hand, in Brazil, soccer is basically integrated throughout their whole culture. Most people live and breathe the game. It was very interesting to compare both cultures. Turning on the sports channel in Brazil you will find games and highlights from soccer matches and basically nothing else. People ranging from all ages don't need a grass field to play, they play wherever they can, with whoever they can, and whenever they can. The passion Brazilians have for the game has been instilled in them since they were born. To many Americans soccer is just another sport, but to many Brazilians soccer is life.
Source: My observations from my trip to Brazil about how the soccer culture there differs from the soccer culture here in the United States.
Relation: As discussed in Chapter One: Culture and Meaning from Robbins, a cultural text is a way of thinking about a culture as a text of significant symbols such as words, gestures, drawings, and natural objects that carry meaning.
Description: Last summer I took a week long trip down to Sau Paulo, Brazil to visit one of my good friends, Bruno da Matta. Bruno currently lives in San Diego but his mother and father were born in Brazil and own a house there. My parents bought my tickets and told me that it was my graduation present. I could not have received a better present. I graduated high school and a week later I was off to Brazil with two of my other really good friends who also play soccer. After a very long 13 and half hours we finally landed in Sau Paulo. This was the second time I was out of the country. The first was visiting Canada. I did not know what to expect. Bruno and his family picked us up and we were off to there house. The da Matta's speak Portuguese as their first language but also speak fluent English which made it easy to communicate with them. As we drove I remember looking out the window and seeing how much different Brazil was then the United States. The monuments and statues were impeccable and simply stunning. We arrived and Bruno's house and unpacked all of our stuff. I knew the da Matta's were huge soccer fans but I did not know the extremes of their passion and love for the game. Their whole house was very eloquently decorated but different from a traditional American decorated house. Bruno, my two friends, and I walked down to a soccer field one day to play. I remember on our way, we saw people ranging from little kids to adults playing little pickup games in the streets. They used makeshift goals and many would play bare foot. I looked up at the billboards we passed and mostly all of them were advertisements for soccer. When we got to the field, we joined a random pick up game. Everybody was playing with so much heart and dedication even though it was just a game that did not matter. We played for hours until it got dark and then we went back to his house.
Commentary/Analysis: Looking back at my week long trip to Brazil now, I discovered that I can use the beautiful game of soccer as a cultural text. In the United States soccer is growing in popularity but it is no where as popular compared to big time sports such as football, basketball, and baseball. I learned that even in college sports the popularity of the sport determines how much funding it is going to receive. For instance big football programs get all of the nicest equipment, training facilities, and most of their games on television. They get these privileges because the sport is extremely popular and rich boosters want to donate all the money they can to see the program succeed. The United States has always been raised like that though and soccer has never really been at the top of the popularity list. On the other hand, in Brazil, soccer is basically integrated throughout their whole culture. Most people live and breathe the game. It was very interesting to compare both cultures. Turning on the sports channel in Brazil you will find games and highlights from soccer matches and basically nothing else. People ranging from all ages don't need a grass field to play, they play wherever they can, with whoever they can, and whenever they can. The passion Brazilians have for the game has been instilled in them since they were born. To many Americans soccer is just another sport, but to many Brazilians soccer is life.
Sunday, January 29, 2012
New Environment, New Diet
Source: I went through my mini refrigerator in my dorm room that I share with roommate on Saturday, January 28th.
Relation: In the past week we had an activity that dealt with food. We were given a list of foods and then had to say if we would eat them or not. If you chose to not eat one of the foods then you had to explain why. For this first blog entry I chose to analyze the food in my refrigerator and the ways in which it is a cultural construct.
Description: When I opened up my refrigerator, I noticed that it was fairly empty. Between my roommate and I we have one jar of Smucker's Special Recipe Strawberry jam, four chocolate flavored Muscle Milks, one bottle of Heinz Tomato Ketchup, one bottle of Best Foods Real Mayonnaise, a Mango Arizona Iced Tea, a orange flavored Gatorade, a grape flavored Gatorade, a revive flavored Vitamin Water, an essential flavored Vitamin Water, one half pound pizza flavored Hot Pocket, one BBQ chicken flavored pizza from California Pizza Kitchen, and one Real Time Cafe sausage egg and cheese biscuit.
Commentary/Analysis:
From observing and looking at the foods that are kept in my refrigerator, I realized that my environment here at college has a correlation with what foods I eat. Since I live in the dorms I am restricted to having a mini refrigerator that can only hold so much. I have to be careful and think about what foods I can get that will not take up to much space. I usually do my shopping for food at the cupboard or market place since I live on campus. I try and eat healthy but the places I go shopping for food often carry quick microwaveable foods. As a college student those kinds of foods appeal to me because I am often on the run and need food that is quick and cheap. Some examples of these foods would be the half pound hot pocket, microwaveable pizza, and the sausage egg and cheese biscuit. I believe that these foods are made and designed for appealing to college students. When I am back at home, I find that I do not eat these same foods because I have more access to other varieties of food and I am not always busy like I am here. Another way the food options in my refrigerator reflect my culture has to deal with a big part of my life, soccer. I play on the soccer team here at Humboldt and an important part of being an athlete is drinking and eating the right foods. The Muscle Milks that are kept in my fridge are used for after we have a hard workout. Muscle Milk is used for post workouts as it helps your muscles recover fast and helps build muscle mass. Similarly, we also keep a lot of gatorade and vitamin waters which are used for hydrating and recovery as well. Due to the fact that I am a college athlete and most of my time out of class is spent around soccer, it is a must that I keep drinks such as Muscle Milk and Gatorade.
The foods that are kept in my refrigerator are a result of the environment that I live in at college and the lifestyle and culture of being a college soccer player. I believe that your surroundings do have an impact on the food you eat. Living the college life in dorms has changed my eating habits to eat more food that is quick and easy to make compared to eating homemade meals from my mom. The life style of being a college soccer player also determines what foods and drinks I keep it my fridge. It is important to receive the right nutrition and protein, so I keep drinks like Gatorade and Muscle Milk in my refrigerator.
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