well, all of you know that i gave an interview for the Courier newspaper. I sounded like a child but besides that it allowed me to really sink in the many amazing things I have done with the GoGirls: the photo exhibit, the awesome research on Intersectionality and having such a big role as co-researchers, having our own session at the Urban Youth Forum and recently the Feminist Happy Hour. So that rakes in so many achievements that in some way has contirbuted to the community. There is absolutely nothing I could be more proud of. I have a diary and in it I have wrote all the things i want to do atleast once in my life and in comparison to what i have actually done all those things seem so stupid (you guys don't want to know). I never imagined any of the things that I have done and don't think I can imagine the things still left to do. Andrea always told us that we are "a big deal" that we are known and want to be known. I guess we don't realize the affect we have. In a way I think we take GoGirls for granted and don't realize what it has done for every single one of us.
So when the interviewer asked me where I would be if I didn't have the GGs. I seriously didn't know how to answer that. I wouldn't be the open minded person I am today, I wouldn't be the critical thinker I am today, I wouldn't be the self-fulfilled person I am today. Simply, I wouldn't be me. I would be lost. So when the reporter asked me that, I was speechless. It's like asking a mother what she would do if she didn't have her children. There is no way of answering.
I LOVE being a GoGirl and I will ALWAYS be a GoGirl!
Another thing I would like to add to my list of achievments is to be an Andrea to another girl like Sabiha.
Besides all that, Hawa I don't think making peace with people before you leave for your journey is selling yourself out. I think it is actually a good idea. It just means that you want to come to even grounds with people you other wise are not. That doesn't mean you have to change your position of where you stand or take back what you have said. It just simply means to make peace. I think that making peace with people, situations and even yourself is a movment to self satisfaction. To be happy with who and what you are.
now, now don't shower me with praise i know I am wise. LOL!
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