LONG WEEKEND.
-claps like a retarded seal- :3
I don't think this applies for Americans because I know that their Thanksgiving is in mid-November, or something close to that but, in Canada, our Thanksgiving is tomorrow. I may sound stoked but it's not too much out of the ordinary for me. I feel like the whole point of Thanksgiving is lost behind the turkey. I, and probably many others, have referred to it as Turkey Day before. I wonder why the turkey was used to symbolize thanks....Was it because of harvesting season? O-o
Anyways, Happy Thanksgiving to everyone :D
On to the topic: Leisure Activities. I just thought about it right on the spot when I was thinking about what to write because I didn't want to work on my Short Story yet, so I'm writing a blog post :D I think by doing something semi-productive, it makes me feel better about not doing something productive...even though writing a blog post is probably not as important xP
I often get asked by Kayla, whom I am still pretty close to, what I do during my spare time. She, and probably everyone else thinks that I do my homework and study every single day, every minute of the time. Well, sorry to break it to you, but I don't.
To be honest, I wonder about that myself too. When approached with this question, I was literally speechless and I asked myself: What do I do during my spare time?
I noticed that time for me has sped up soo much more since school has started. It is already October. :OOO WHATT?
On some school days, my schedule gets packed and I'm doing my homework and studying pretty much any other time that I get, which is probably aside from eating, sleeping and taking a shower. That is when I'm drained of energy and before I know it, I'm in bed.
However, my days aren't always that busy. I tend to waste, if you can even call it that, alot of it. Just on Friday when I came home, I knew that I had homework but I'd wait for another 2 hours to start some of it. Did I? Somewhat. I ended up starting it a little later, but got it done. Those 2 or so hours got spent on Facebook, Youtube, Hotmail, etc. Youtube being the ultimate time waster. It's soo easy to just click on video after video, GRRRR.
I have a very odd selection of people that I subscribe to. I subscribe to fashion gurus, make-up gurus, hairstyling gurus, you get the idea. But to be honest, I don't actually watch all of their videos now. I just click on one occasionally, if it looks interesting.
And then I subscribe to vloggers. I actually don't get bored of them too often, unless they're ridiculously long and a majority of it is of something that does not arouse my interests. I also subscribe to entertainers who make skits. (SIDE NOTE: If you haven't seen Kevjumba's video, "My New Son Jeremy Lin", I encourage you to see it because Papajumba makes me laugh and the part where Kevjumba speaks in mandarin cracks me up xDD)
Aside from that, my studying is probably a little overboard. Most people think of studying as something you do to prepare for tests or quizzes or something of that kind.
But for me, I feel like I have to read my leisure novel for 30 minutes, read my French book and/or listen to a disc for 20 minutes and read about the news on my phone for 10 or so minutes per day. Ideally. That is a good hour spent on "studying". I see it as a compromise between something productive and something that I usually want to do. I see my leisure book as a way to improve my spelling, expand my vocabulary(this is soo difficult for me) and improve my grammar. French books and DVDs are used to improve my reading comprehension and listening and speaking skills. And the news, well...I'd like to know a little more about what my history teacher may refer to in class ahead of time so I'm not clueless during the discussion. I actually find some interesting things in the news too that I was never aware of, like the E.coli spread in meat across Canada from Alberta and/or Saskatchewan.
This is getting very long so I think that I'll end it here. I'm going to write a post right after this to post on Thursday. Anyways, I still must admit that I'm still not so sure were all my time goes. GIVE ME A TIME MACHINE ALREADY.
Bloomed -> Blooming~
-Melanie
-claps like a retarded seal- :3
I don't think this applies for Americans because I know that their Thanksgiving is in mid-November, or something close to that but, in Canada, our Thanksgiving is tomorrow. I may sound stoked but it's not too much out of the ordinary for me. I feel like the whole point of Thanksgiving is lost behind the turkey. I, and probably many others, have referred to it as Turkey Day before. I wonder why the turkey was used to symbolize thanks....Was it because of harvesting season? O-o
Anyways, Happy Thanksgiving to everyone :D
On to the topic: Leisure Activities. I just thought about it right on the spot when I was thinking about what to write because I didn't want to work on my Short Story yet, so I'm writing a blog post :D I think by doing something semi-productive, it makes me feel better about not doing something productive...even though writing a blog post is probably not as important xP
I often get asked by Kayla, whom I am still pretty close to, what I do during my spare time. She, and probably everyone else thinks that I do my homework and study every single day, every minute of the time. Well, sorry to break it to you, but I don't.
To be honest, I wonder about that myself too. When approached with this question, I was literally speechless and I asked myself: What do I do during my spare time?
I noticed that time for me has sped up soo much more since school has started. It is already October. :OOO WHATT?
On some school days, my schedule gets packed and I'm doing my homework and studying pretty much any other time that I get, which is probably aside from eating, sleeping and taking a shower. That is when I'm drained of energy and before I know it, I'm in bed.
However, my days aren't always that busy. I tend to waste, if you can even call it that, alot of it. Just on Friday when I came home, I knew that I had homework but I'd wait for another 2 hours to start some of it. Did I? Somewhat. I ended up starting it a little later, but got it done. Those 2 or so hours got spent on Facebook, Youtube, Hotmail, etc. Youtube being the ultimate time waster. It's soo easy to just click on video after video, GRRRR.
I have a very odd selection of people that I subscribe to. I subscribe to fashion gurus, make-up gurus, hairstyling gurus, you get the idea. But to be honest, I don't actually watch all of their videos now. I just click on one occasionally, if it looks interesting.
And then I subscribe to vloggers. I actually don't get bored of them too often, unless they're ridiculously long and a majority of it is of something that does not arouse my interests. I also subscribe to entertainers who make skits. (SIDE NOTE: If you haven't seen Kevjumba's video, "My New Son Jeremy Lin", I encourage you to see it because Papajumba makes me laugh and the part where Kevjumba speaks in mandarin cracks me up xDD)
Aside from that, my studying is probably a little overboard. Most people think of studying as something you do to prepare for tests or quizzes or something of that kind.
But for me, I feel like I have to read my leisure novel for 30 minutes, read my French book and/or listen to a disc for 20 minutes and read about the news on my phone for 10 or so minutes per day. Ideally. That is a good hour spent on "studying". I see it as a compromise between something productive and something that I usually want to do. I see my leisure book as a way to improve my spelling, expand my vocabulary(this is soo difficult for me) and improve my grammar. French books and DVDs are used to improve my reading comprehension and listening and speaking skills. And the news, well...I'd like to know a little more about what my history teacher may refer to in class ahead of time so I'm not clueless during the discussion. I actually find some interesting things in the news too that I was never aware of, like the E.coli spread in meat across Canada from Alberta and/or Saskatchewan.
This is getting very long so I think that I'll end it here. I'm going to write a post right after this to post on Thursday. Anyways, I still must admit that I'm still not so sure were all my time goes. GIVE ME A TIME MACHINE ALREADY.
-Melanie
Is someone else going to join my little Kevjumba fangirl fest? It's only a matter of time, Melanie...soon you'll be squealing everywhere just like me.
ReplyDeleteAside from that...my days are me getting up early to do homework, hitting snooze on my alarm fifty million times, leaving early to do my homework at school before it starts, going to class, going home and drawing ponies. And commenting on your blog, of course!
I remember when I first discovered his channel like a couple of years ago....you do not know how many of his videos I went through O-O
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