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Beat summer boredom
SpunOutter Megan Nelis comes up with alternative ways to enjoy the summer.
Article by : SpunOut.ie
If, like me, you are rummaging through the kitchen cupboards, ransacking the shed in the backyard and searching for that 'quick fix' in the…ahem… broom room (i.e. if you’re unemployed for the summer) DO NOT DESPAIR!!! There are answers:
- A mixed tape! Ok, maybe not a tape but a CD. Record some songs. Then feel free to do a little dance/workout/meditation/large dance. I know, I know - it will involve some exercise. It also means that you pass a few hours in your room, NOT ironing your socks.
- CV! CV! CV! At least you can say that you tried. Pass around as many CVs as possible to local shops, hotels, etc. “Something might come up” is now officially my mantra of the month. Find info on summer jobs here.
- Volunteer! Here is where the SpunOut.ie plug comes in - get involved with SpunOut.ie! It doesn’t have to be a piece of writing. It can also be artwork, audio work, photographs, etc.
- Charities in your area might also like a helping hand, even if it is only for an hour or two a week. (*Cough* CV!!!) Check out www.volunteer.ie for lots of info and ideas.
- Lie-ins take up at least ten hours.
- The remaining fourteen hours could consist of chores, exercising, essential TV viewing, painting your house black, learning the cha cha or the mamba, learning how to play drums (or in my case, some very large, feck off seaside buckets. What? They work just as well), writing songs, discovering and learning new songs, taking photographs of unusual objects (like old moth-eaten clothes and cracked delph, old tobacco boxes filled with crumbly melted mushy crayons, miniature scarecrows who, let’s face it, aren’t as scary, broken hoovers that make strange buzzing sounds), reading Stephen King, that sorta thing.
- Are there swimming lessons or driving lessons that you never got around to during the year? Maybe that list of New Year’s Resolutions has been swept under the carpet and still hasn’t come out since New Year’s dinner was served? It is time, child. Unveil... unveil.
- And if all of that hasn’t really gotten your juices flowing and you’re too broke to go anywhere nice on a long holiday, there are always those good old-fashioned suhummer niiiihiiiights to fall back on.
Well that just about wraps it up for today. Feel free to send in your suggestions on how to pass the summer. I would be very curious and intrigued to find out how everyone else is spending their time. We cease now, people, we cease. . . bain taitneamh as!!!
By: Megan Nelis
