This week’s work was similarly repetitive to what I was previously doing. After talking with Sarah and Professor Greene about some takeaways, especially my concern about culture seemingly being a bigger takeaway than the first gen low income aspect which was the motivation behind our question/research, I feel more confident with how to proceed. I have reached out to a couple of white (non POC) first gen low income students and am hoping to interview them this coming week. For now, I would like to talk about one of my interviews that impressed me. I interviewed a current junior woman of color who mentioned that although diet was something she was never able to take care of diligently growing up because her culture (and income) lean towards unhealthy foods, she mentioned that physically taking care of her body was something that was prioritized and modeled by her parents. When I asked why, she mentioned that because they were low income and always in need of money, her parents and family had to work a lot, and her parents always pushed forth a mindset of havi if to take care of your body physically and be safe so that one could work. If you get injured or sick, that is time lost not working and not making money. And that struck me because that ik itself is in a way a class based understanding of health, sort of in a different approach then what we were insinuating in our research question. While we had inferred that the class-based understanding would be more around the habits of taking care of yourself growing up based on priorities and resources that are typically more extended towards people of higher classes, I began to consider that health isn’t entirely neglected by the working class because after all, they are physically working very often if they are in service industry type of jobs. This isn’t something I didn;t know anything of—-my dad also works a service job, always has, and I vividly recall him always talking about how he cant hurt himself because it’ll slow him down at work. Recently, we had eye surgery for an issue that was bothering him for two years; he didn’t get it fixed earlier because it would require too much time away from work to continually get checked, but he finally got his eye surgery because it was interfering with his work and feared that he wouldn’t be able to work anymore if it worsened. The person I interviewed revealed a similar mindset towards physical health as their parents work in factories and similar gigs, so much question now is around why/how physical health and mobility is, you know, acknowledged and at least partially considered, yet diet and food which are a greater force in health sometimes, are not. I wonder if it is a matter of merely being able to control what your can afford to (and diet, perhaps is subconsciously known but accepted that the best foods are out of reach?).