The place where I go everyday is the Angela Athletic Facility, whether its exercising on the machines, going to work out classes, or hitting golf balls in a separate room in the basement of the gym I spend my time in this place. The gym is quite spacious hosting large crowds for concerts, basketball games, and other such activities like intramural games. The facility always is noisy with people entering and leaving, conversations between one another on the machines or workout classes, and the practices going on the basketball courts. Attending the gym I always walk out feeling better about myself because with a busy schedule and being gone all day it does keep me motivated and going throughout the day, knowing I just ended a power workout or a practice.
I know what it's like to wear high heels on the weekends and feeling somewhat of pain on Sunday mornings. Subtly disrupting the logic of going to the gym in tennis shoes, or some kind of a flat shoe, I had my friend attend our golf workouts in heels. Walking into the gym she was already getting many stares because she did have on yoga pants and a t-shirt along with her 5 inch black heels. This greatly affected her purpose of going to the gym to workout because not only were people looking at her confused but our workout instructor told her some of the moves we were going to do she would have to take them off or she would hurt herself. Watching her perform the workout in heels for most of the time did stir up the gym atmosphere and she was brave enough to do such thing because I could just imagine having pain after wearing heels during a workout with much motion. My friend obviously looked out of place in her heels during a workout and the people showed much confusion on their face. Next time your at the Angela Athletic Facility look around you to see how many women are wearing heels while working out because it is not common in this type of atmosphere. The atmosphere is full of activities going on involving one to move around and heels would leave one in pain leaving the Angela Athletic Facility.
I know what it's like to wear high heels on the weekends and feeling somewhat of pain on Sunday mornings. Subtly disrupting the logic of going to the gym in tennis shoes, or some kind of a flat shoe, I had my friend attend our golf workouts in heels. Walking into the gym she was already getting many stares because she did have on yoga pants and a t-shirt along with her 5 inch black heels. This greatly affected her purpose of going to the gym to workout because not only were people looking at her confused but our workout instructor told her some of the moves we were going to do she would have to take them off or she would hurt herself. Watching her perform the workout in heels for most of the time did stir up the gym atmosphere and she was brave enough to do such thing because I could just imagine having pain after wearing heels during a workout with much motion. My friend obviously looked out of place in her heels during a workout and the people showed much confusion on their face. Next time your at the Angela Athletic Facility look around you to see how many women are wearing heels while working out because it is not common in this type of atmosphere. The atmosphere is full of activities going on involving one to move around and heels would leave one in pain leaving the Angela Athletic Facility.
What a brave friend! It's funny how similar this is to Ambreen's example...workout "rules" are definitely a good place to start. I'd encourage you to decide what you want to focus on here. Will it be related to this experiment? What can you tell us to help us see Angela in new ways? For example, your mind map and description paragraph are very broad. Finally, don't forget to think about how the physical environment does or doesn't play a role in the meaning or function of the space.
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