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Health and Well-being

Dream Vs Reality interview

In the Weekend I did an interview with a local woman at the cornish. In this interview I asked her couple of questions. But what was the most intersting thing is the woman was overweight and when I asked her what's her hobbies she answered me by saying swimming and dancing. Which really does not show from the her outside apperance she had. I also had the idea of the perfect body. Therefore, she wants to have the look and the apperance of the perfect body, but she is really not having it.

Therefore, and I came with different questions of my area of Intrest:

Concern/Space:
Perfect Body
What is the perfect body?
Whats the public reactions to people who have a perfect body & who are overweight people?
If medical technology allows people to have a perfect body would you try?
Do you consider the perfect body as part of social reasons?

Area of Interest:
Duality between dream/Reality?
If your dream of a perfect body come true through technology would you try it?
Does reality kills your dreams of having a prefect body?

Questions:
To what extreme measure they will push themselves to become "Perfect"?
Does family effects the way you think of having a perfect body & a good health to live long with them?

Interview Locals at Doha Corniche

Exercise:

When is the last time you did sport?

- everyday – walk ( Undercover policemen )

- week ago

- week ago ( Qatari woman )

- This morning

- Today ( Old guy )

- Don’t do sport ( woman with kids )

- All the time ( Kickboxing before Ramadan ) DFI staff

Where do you play sports?

- Cornish ( Friday ), Aspire everyday ( Undercover policemen )

- Aspire ( Qatari Woman )

- Afternoon

- Education City Club house

- Cornish ( Old guy )

- Gym, home

When playing are you alone/ or together?

- sometimes alone, sometime with friends ( Undercover policemen )

- Friends ( Qatari Woman )

- Alone

- Friend

- Alone ( Old Guy )

- Friend, to help with sports. Ex hold the boxing for me ( DFI Staff )

Nutrition:

What’s your favorite food?

- Rice ( Undercover policemen )

- Pasta

- Italian Food ( Qatari Woman )

- French Fries, Egg plant & anything fried ( Old Guy )

- Warah enab ( woman with kids )

- Mangos

- Cheese Sandwich/ Falafel/ Karaak ( DFI Staff )

How many times do you eat per day?

- 3-2 times ( Undercover policemen )

- 3 times max

- 3 meals, 2 snacks ( Qatari woman )

- 1 main meal ( on Diet )

- 3 times ( Old Guy )

- 2 times ( DFI Staff )

Do you like to cook?

- No ( Undercover policemen )

- Yes ( Woman with Kids )

- Yes, but there is no time

- Yes ( Qatari Woman )

- Not often, but know how to cook

- Sure ( DFI Staff )

Do you dine out a lot? Why?

- Sometime ( Undercover policemen )

- Yes ( When wife don’t know to how to cook this meal )

- Yes ( Qatari woman )

- No ( woman with kids )

- No ( Old Guy )

- Yes, no time to cook ( DFI Staff )

Leisure:

What do you do in your free time?

- sleep- work ( Undercover policemen )

- Visit Family, get food

- Work ( Qatari woman )

- With the kids ( Woman with kids )

- no free time ( Old Guy )

- workout, read, friends

- Travel ( DFI Staff )

What are your hobbies?

- Sports, Reading, TV, browse on the Internet ( Undercover policemen )

- Tennis

- Dancing, swimming ( Qatari woman )

- Movies

- Work no hoppies ( Woman with kids )

- Art, drawing ( Old Guy )

- Swimming, diving, Jogging ( DFI Staff )

What do you normally do during the week?

- Work ( Undercover policemen )

- house, clean, work

- work, kids ( Qatari woman )

- Work ( Old Guy )

- Work at the independent school, no family here ( Woman with kids )

- Work, no time for other things

- Work ( DFI Staff )

Interview with construction workers during their weekend

Muslim Operator:

* Wake up at 4:00 am
* Shower
* Prayer
* 4:30 company transportation
* Working time from 4:30-6:30
* 11 pm sleep
* 1 room 6 people (sometimes 10)
* everyone have a bed
* 30 people per accommodation
* air conditioned
* No medical facilities
* 3:00am cooking to eat after coming back from work
* no break time
* no place for break
* Salary 1400
* No insurance
* No uniform
* Promising insurance and facilities before coming but nothing happened
* No transportation for Friday prayer
* Cutting from salary to pay to the agency 3000 (more than two month worth salary)
* Unable to enjoy weekend because there is a lot of stress
* We know the place where we go every weekend
* We go on weekend to buy food for the rest of the week
* Always cooking own food, can’t afford to go to restaurant
* Company’s grocery store have higher price than normal store (we have to go To Doha over the weekend if we want to buy food at reasonable price)
* Clean water provided by the company
* Been working for 11 month
* No need to contact each other, everyone knows where to meet implicitly

Buddhist scaffolding:

* sleep 8-5
* 6 people 1 room
* 15 min break with shading place
* Go to restaurant 4-5 times per month (every weekend)
* Indian restaurant (similar to Nepal food)
* Salary 600-700
* Been working for 1 year
* Have washing machine (wash clothes every 2 days)
* Languages spoken (Nepalese, English, Hindi)
* Good medical facilities
* Easy to contact each other
* Uniform available

Muslim Clerk:

* 10:30 – 5:15
* 2 people 1 room
* 30 min break lunch time (with menu)
* shopping in the weekend depending on needs
* easy to contact each other
* Uniform available

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