When i was 13.......

I sat in the back of the class with my head down on the desk, and my hands slowly sweating up. I attend an all white school; for three years of my life I felt like I didn’t belong. At lunch we (black students) made sure to always sit together we only identified our selves with blacks. I guess it was because we all shared the same culture? We felt like we was out number and that led us to isolating are selves. If that wasn’t enough to deal with I was also a “tomboy”, but somewhere between 8th grade and my freshmen year of high school the media played a big part of my life, I was now worried about what I looked like, and was now very aware of what I should look like, what is beautiful, and what I had to change about me. The summer before I started high school I did a total 360, the idea that magazines and the media was responsible for why I changed myself have played a big part of my life. Over the years, I have read and learned a lot about the media. I always felt like I needed to make a difference, to give young girls what I didn’t have growing up. My senor year of high school I started a movement the phenomenal women movement also known as P.M.W. I went through a 10 week peer education training to be able to run these groups. I put a lot of time and effort into making this project well planned and worth while. I feel by educating teens about nutrition, healthy weight and the importance of exercise, we can start to provide alternative models of what it means to be healthy and attractive.