Hello!
My name is Alesha Gutierrez (she/her) some people like to call me Lesha or Lesh whichever way doesn’t really matter to me. I’m a Psychology major at Stony Brook and I do commute so I always look forward to the summer because NO TRAFFIC!!!
My actual summer plans are…. very uninteresting. I really am just going to school, working, and working out. Oh and of course sleeping, if I. am not at work or working out almost 99.9% of the time I will be fast asleep. I work an overnight job as an operations manager so I am quite literally always tired.
Although no matter how tired I am, I always find time to read. But you see I’m not like a traditional story reader, what I really like to read is poetry. In particular, I love reading love poems (cheesy, right?). But I also love reading works written by Latinos. I’m very proud to be a Latina however there are so many external and internal issues that come with being a Latina and authors like Gloria Anzaldua highlight these issues. Right now though I’m reading Homebody by Rupi Kaur and I love it.
Besides reading, I guess the most interesting thing thats happen to me this summer is getting my first tattoo. The worst part of it…. was sitting for a dreadful 9 hours but I love my tattoo so much and I would most certainly do it again.
I love movies and love reading so I guess from this course I would like to get a better understanding of how a film is able to resonate with us emotionally. I look forward to this course and getting to know everyone!