Andrew Rubinsteyn, Period 8, 5/20/22

 Andrew Rubinshteyn Period 8

6/6/22

1) Currently, I’m feeling pretty good about everything coming up for me. I got into university where I wanted to and started dieting recently to try and lose weight, and so in turn my goal may seem pretty underwhelming, but it’s important to me.. My biggest goal right now is to try to secure a job for summer. For the past couple of years I’ve wanted to try to get a counselor job at a summer camp, and this year I got to know a tennis coach who wants to run one on the island and is hiring a couple of counselors. It’s a dream position for me as far as camp counselors go, because it’s at a tennis camp, and I’ve been playing for a while and think I’d be pretty good at coaching kids who are starting to learn it in a camp. On top of that, my sister might be part of the camp, as she has lessons with the coach running it, so I’d get to hold a counselor job, and also spend the day with my sister. I think that would be the best way to have a productive summer before leaving for university. However, a supplemental goal is to not gain weight this summer, and more specifically to start exercising more often than how sporadically I do right now, strengthen my diet in the form of cutting out processed carbs for the most part, which I haven’t been able to do completely so far, and generally get into better shape for health and just for myself to look better.

2) I don’t really think there’s a way to show resilience for the first goal, other than being proactive in trying to get the job. I have been doing that, but it’s been fairly difficult to get in touch with the coach. I’m keeping at it though. For the other goal, since my last blog, I’ve had a hard time getting healthier because a few other stressors entered my life shortly after that lost blog, and I kind of lost focus on my diet and exercising. Now that that stuff is over with, over the last couple of weeks there’s been less work, and I’ve had more free time, so I’ve been getting back into it. Over the past few weeks, aside from one day when I was at a get together with old friends at an italian restaurant, I’ve completely cut out pasta, which I used to eat virtually every single day. I’ve also started going to the gym every other day, to make up for the tennis season being virtually over, in order to get in the exercise. I’m also hoping that the job at the camp will help too, what with it being a sports camp, although I’m not sure.

3) I don’t really talk to people around me about how I want to look or why I want to lose weight, but within my family, my grandfather has always been the one who’s been pushing me to start losing weight for years now. He’s definitely the most encouraging one of the endeavor, because he thinks it’ll only get more difficult as I get older, and that I’ll feel better about myself in terms of how I look, and just feel better during things such as physical activity. As far as trying to find work, my parents think it’s a great idea for me to have one last busy summer before going to college, where they think I might not even have time for work and be swamped in the workload. I see a lot of my friends securing jobs for summer too, so that reinforces my idea of wanting to work for summer as well.