We have many possibilities to spend our free time nowadays. I asked my parents, how it was when they were young.
Lots of you wrote about youth free time in our century. Let’s have a look how it was for my parents to live 35 years ago.
The country my parents lived in is to be found on the map under Russia. It is named ‘Kazakhstan’. The school times were quite different from the times we know in Germany.
The students had days where school began 8 am and finished at 2 pm. On other days they had to be in school from 2 pm to 5 or 6 pm.
After they came home, they did their homework and then they had free time.
When my parents were between 5-10 years old, they often played games on the street like hide and seek, different ball-games, catching each other or just playing with their pets on the street or in the garden.
When they got older they met their friends at weekends, after they had done the work at home. This was to feed the pets like chicken, dogs and cats, to help to weed the garden or just harvesting the vegetables and fruits in the summer.
Furthermore they went to the city or hiked through the mountains nearby their town. My parents also went to church on Sundays and other days in the week.
When they had holidays it was also different to the holidays we know. They had holidays -one week in the spring time, three month summer holidays, one week in autumn and two weeks in winter.
In the summer holidays they spent their time with doing a mini job to earn money or joined summer camps, organized by church or the town. Often they visited the grandparents and helped them in their gardens.
If my parents travelled they just visited relatives in Ukrainia. But most of their time they spent with their friends enjoying their holidays.
I’m very glad that I have more free time than my parents when they were young and that I don’t live in a time where I have to do so many jobs at home. I think that the best of our time is the possibility to travel so much, my parents didn’t have those opportunities, so I’m happy to live today.
by Olesja
8/25/09
8/6/09
Computer (Ab?)Use - A Survey
We created a survey about the computer use by students in our age. We had 8 questions to find out the habits from young people. We were surprised about the results of some questions and others were like we expected. These were the questions:
Computer use - questionnaire:
1.How long do you use the computer a day?
O 1 hour
O 2 hours
O 3 hours
O 4 hours
O more than 4 hours
2. What do you use the computer for?
O For school
O For messaging
O For games
O For listening to music
O For shopping
O For illegal sites
O To get information from all over the world
3. How much money do you spend for the computer in a month? (pc games, internet connection and equipment)
4. Which games do you play on the computer?
O Action games
O Strategy games
O Gambling
O Killer games
O Board games
O Fantasy games
O Brain games
5. Do you have any health problems like…
O Eyesight problems
O Sleep disturbance
O Headache
O Psychological problems
O Overweight
O School problems
6.Have you ever found your love on the internet?
O Yes
if yes, how often?
O No
7.Have you met your chatting partner in real life?
O Yes_______ times
O No
O By chance
8.Can you live without a computer?
O Yes
O No
O Difficult
23 pupils filled in our questionnaire. Most of them use the computer for 2 – 3 hours a day for messaging and for school. This wasn’t like we had expected. We thought that most would tick 4 hours and we didn’t think that all students use it mainly for school. Despite the good intention some of them have already health problems like headache and eyes problems. This result was as we estimated.
One question really surprised us. Nobody had found his/her love in the internet, but we don’t believe it.
Likewise the next question of our survey. Our thoughts were that many pupils met their chatting partner in real life. The results showed us that twice as many pupil never met their chatting partner, as the pupils who did.
Frightening was the fact that almost all students are addicted to or at least cannot live without the computer. Regrettably our speculation came true.
In most cases our hypotheses were right. Although it was interesting to analyse the survey.
by Jessica, Melanie, Hümeyra and Irma
Computer use - questionnaire:
1.How long do you use the computer a day?
O 1 hour
O 2 hours
O 3 hours
O 4 hours
O more than 4 hours
2. What do you use the computer for?
O For school
O For messaging
O For games
O For listening to music
O For shopping
O For illegal sites
O To get information from all over the world
3. How much money do you spend for the computer in a month? (pc games, internet connection and equipment)
4. Which games do you play on the computer?
O Action games
O Strategy games
O Gambling
O Killer games
O Board games
O Fantasy games
O Brain games
5. Do you have any health problems like…
O Eyesight problems
O Sleep disturbance
O Headache
O Psychological problems
O Overweight
O School problems
6.Have you ever found your love on the internet?
O Yes
if yes, how often?
O No
7.Have you met your chatting partner in real life?
O Yes_______ times
O No
O By chance
8.Can you live without a computer?
O Yes
O No
O Difficult
23 pupils filled in our questionnaire. Most of them use the computer for 2 – 3 hours a day for messaging and for school. This wasn’t like we had expected. We thought that most would tick 4 hours and we didn’t think that all students use it mainly for school. Despite the good intention some of them have already health problems like headache and eyes problems. This result was as we estimated.
One question really surprised us. Nobody had found his/her love in the internet, but we don’t believe it.
Likewise the next question of our survey. Our thoughts were that many pupils met their chatting partner in real life. The results showed us that twice as many pupil never met their chatting partner, as the pupils who did.
Frightening was the fact that almost all students are addicted to or at least cannot live without the computer. Regrettably our speculation came true.
In most cases our hypotheses were right. Although it was interesting to analyse the survey.
by Jessica, Melanie, Hümeyra and Irma
6/11/09
Visit to Bremen : two Belgian diaries
Our travel to Bremen
I think we were all waiting for this travel, but I was also a bit doubting, at the same time. I was afraid the family would be very different from my family and I was afraid not to be able to communicate with them.
When we arrived, I felt very excited and only wanted to meet my pen-friend. I realized that it was good to have contacts with her before the travel, it made things easier. She spoke to me as if I was one of her friends and it made it easy for me.
Of course, I was very disappointed not to be allowed to sleep in her family, as her sister was sick, but, at the same time, it was a good occasion to meet Hendrik. We understood each other very well.
In the beginning, it was not very easy to be in an unknown country, in an unknown family.
I was afraid to speak English and felt alone. But, it was soon over and I adapted easily and, in the end, I was able to speak, even if it was with a lot of mistakes. I think thee activities were good (sports, free time, visits…) and it made the contact easier. Everything was well organized. I really enjoyed the trip, I could meet many new people and we all liked it very much.
I want to thank the teachers, the organizing committee and all the families very much for this nice experience.
Clara Pastor
I really enjoyed this trip. Everything was well organized to welcome us. The first day we did a boat trip. Our correspondent was very friendly with us and good contacts were made on the very first day.
We have activities such as football, volleyball and climbing. This trip allowed me to improve my English and discover another culture and other people. I spent great moments with other partners and I had the chance to meet the project launcher. I’m really happy to have participated in this project and I am very happy to have seen the Werder Bremen team even though I have unfortunately been unable to attend the mach. I keep wonderful memories of good times.
In short, the Comenius project was for me a good way to improve my English and to spend good moments with other people. I really enjoyed participating in this project; I have an excellent memory of those moments.
François Capitao Martins
I think we were all waiting for this travel, but I was also a bit doubting, at the same time. I was afraid the family would be very different from my family and I was afraid not to be able to communicate with them.
When we arrived, I felt very excited and only wanted to meet my pen-friend. I realized that it was good to have contacts with her before the travel, it made things easier. She spoke to me as if I was one of her friends and it made it easy for me.
Of course, I was very disappointed not to be allowed to sleep in her family, as her sister was sick, but, at the same time, it was a good occasion to meet Hendrik. We understood each other very well.
In the beginning, it was not very easy to be in an unknown country, in an unknown family.
I was afraid to speak English and felt alone. But, it was soon over and I adapted easily and, in the end, I was able to speak, even if it was with a lot of mistakes. I think thee activities were good (sports, free time, visits…) and it made the contact easier. Everything was well organized. I really enjoyed the trip, I could meet many new people and we all liked it very much.
I want to thank the teachers, the organizing committee and all the families very much for this nice experience.
Clara Pastor
I really enjoyed this trip. Everything was well organized to welcome us. The first day we did a boat trip. Our correspondent was very friendly with us and good contacts were made on the very first day.
We have activities such as football, volleyball and climbing. This trip allowed me to improve my English and discover another culture and other people. I spent great moments with other partners and I had the chance to meet the project launcher. I’m really happy to have participated in this project and I am very happy to have seen the Werder Bremen team even though I have unfortunately been unable to attend the mach. I keep wonderful memories of good times.
In short, the Comenius project was for me a good way to improve my English and to spend good moments with other people. I really enjoyed participating in this project; I have an excellent memory of those moments.
François Capitao Martins
6/8/09
Leisure activities: several aspects / Simón Vázquez
BETWEEN PAST AND PRESENT
We are living in a world with many opportunities for young people, but we are living in a world with many risks and dangers too. Both factors are different in the past and are different now because of different ways of life, different societies, different technologies and in consequence different leisure activities. These facts mark an appreciable difference between us, young people of nowadays, and them, young people of our grandparents’ generations. For example, when they were young, going to school was so difficult, and people who study a lot were respected by another people and classmates, today this is totally in an opposite way, it seems as people who wants to learn make their classmates laugh. In the past having food to eat was a great lucky, Nowadays people throw food regardless of hunger in the world. These and many other differences are due to a consumer society, which is moving very fast, in which our life quality is growing but undiscovered troubles are growing too.
GOOD AND BAD LEISURES ACTIVITIES.
Free time are the hours, minutes or seconds which we are not working or studying and we can enjoy them in very different ways. Nowadays, teenagers have many different ways to spend their free time, but they often take the wrong ones.
A good way to “enjoy” free time, by many teenagers, with future suffering, is for example BOTELLON when every weekend’s nights millions of teenagers meet in public places to drink alcohol irritating the neighbours and acting like vandals. BOTELLON is very popular regardless the terrible consequences.
Another way how some teenagers spend their free time, fortunately only a few teens take this way, is the way of BULLING. These people enjoy hurting helpless people. For example these “people” choose a weak and alone boy, and they hit and attack him cowardly.
Fortunately all young people don’t take the wrong way. Many teens go out with their friends enjoying a sunny afternoon or they go to the cinema, or they play videogames in a cyber or they go to the library or they read comics. Although these last leisure activities are done by freaks, this is said by some people who sponsor the ignorance.
A good way to “enjoy” free time, by many teenagers, with future suffering, is for example BOTELLON when every weekend’s nights millions of teenagers meet in public places to drink alcohol irritating the neighbours and acting like vandals. BOTELLON is very popular regardless the terrible consequences.
Another way how some teenagers spend their free time, fortunately only a few teens take this way, is the way of BULLING. These people enjoy hurting helpless people. For example these “people” choose a weak and alone boy, and they hit and attack him cowardly.
Fortunately all young people don’t take the wrong way. Many teens go out with their friends enjoying a sunny afternoon or they go to the cinema, or they play videogames in a cyber or they go to the library or they read comics. Although these last leisure activities are done by freaks, this is said by some people who sponsor the ignorance.
MY LEISURES ACTIVITIES AND MY FREE TIME.
In Ourense, we have the advantages from a small city but also it sustains in a great way our necessities like a big city. For example, there is no beach, but there are TERMAS CHAVASQUEIRA, near the river, which are very popular in Galicia and Spain. Also we have many and great cultural offerings at AUDITORIO MUNICIPAL, at CASA DA XUVENTUDE or at TEATRO PRINCIPAL. There is one possibility which you can make a show with another people if you join to one of popular drama groups like I did it.
I’m in different drama groups which I spend my free time but I go out with my friends too. One of these groups is EL OBRADOIRO DE TEATRO DE LOLY BUJÁN. I have learnt so much from Loly, She is a great actress, director and also she is a great woman. She gave me the power and courage to create my own film group two years ago. This group has given me great moments of happiness but also very sad moments.
The group is called ATCC [Asociación de Transmisión de Conocimientos Cinematográficos]. It’s composed by young people like me who loves the film world or only wants to spend their free time in a funny way.
We make short films, as SUEÑOS REALES, or another that are being filmed these days, as TI TRANSPLANTAS, which promotes organ donation among young people. Also, we film video clips for groups like SIN MOTIVO or NO SENSE. We are collaborating now with COMENIUS PROJECT, and soon we are travelling to Portugal to expose our works. Last winter we made LA CASA DEL TERROR: EL PSIQUIÁTRICO NÚMERO 8 at CASA DA XUVENTUDE and it was so successful. All tickets were sold out and people came from all Galicia.
We have our own web site [http://www.producciones-atcc.jimdo.com/] where we show all about us and our projects.
Also I spend my free time reading books, surfing on internet, writing my own histories, and learning English while I see TV series subtitled, with voices in original version.
At last I’d like to suggest everybody that they can spend their free time in a productive way because FREE doesn’t mean that we can do all what we want, so we should respect others. I’d like nowadays teenagers to take a look around and ask themselves...
... Should I do what is RIGHT or what is EASY?
Pictures taken by Simón Vázquez.
by SIMÓN VÁZQUEZ LÓPEZ, 1º BACH B
6/7/09
Rockeye 2009 - Photos & Press release of this event
Here are some pictures of our ROCKEYE 2009 - Rock Festival.
Here are as well some examples of the echo this event got in our town:
La Región, 23-05-2009
6/4/09
Bremen - Das Viertel
As already seen by some of you in Bremen. I would like to show you in a very personal approach the district I live in and like very much.
Enjoy!
by Ányos
(movie created by Ányos Szabo and Jan-Hendrik Hahn)
Enjoy!
by Ányos
(movie created by Ányos Szabo and Jan-Hendrik Hahn)
Interview / Antía Salve
Things have changed a lot since the past to the present, and the ways to have a good time and spend our free time too.
There are a lot of young people who spend their free time watching TV, playing videogames or just doing nothing, not realising that there are many more things to do.
INTERVIEW
I asked a 24 years old girl, María, to discover what her opinion about that change is and what her leisure activities were.
1. Did you have much free time when you were about my age?
No, I didn’t have much free time, because I had a lot of lessons in the morning, and in the afternoon, every day I went to an academy.
Also the time I was at home I spent it studying.
2. What were your hobbies?
Going out with my friends, going to the cinema, to pubs, parties. Besides, in summer holidays I went to the beach or to the pool and sometimes I practised aerobics in a gym.
3. Did other youngsters enjoy doing the same things?
Yes, because I shared the activities with may school friends or local neighbours.
4. What did your parents think about it?
My mother liked me having fun, but some days she told me off for not arriving on time and she didn’t agree with some of my friends.
5. What is your opinion about the way young people spend their free time nowadays?
I think that the youngsters don’t spend their time in a good way. Especially the kids, because their usual activities are to stay at home, watching TV or playing the videogames.
6. Haw do you think that this could change?
In my opinion, they should take activities in the open-air like sports: basketball, volleyball. In this way, teenagers would be at least with company and not like a lot of them, alone in their houses.
7. What are your leisure activities now?
Although I have to work, I have time for going swimming to a gym and going out with friends.
CONCLUSION
In my opinion, people some years ago spent their time having fun in a more healthy way.
Because nowadays the teenagers make activities individually at home, instead of carrying out other hobbies with different people and in different places.
by Antía Salve Bouzo, 1º BACH C
There are a lot of young people who spend their free time watching TV, playing videogames or just doing nothing, not realising that there are many more things to do.
INTERVIEW
I asked a 24 years old girl, María, to discover what her opinion about that change is and what her leisure activities were.
1. Did you have much free time when you were about my age?
No, I didn’t have much free time, because I had a lot of lessons in the morning, and in the afternoon, every day I went to an academy.
Also the time I was at home I spent it studying.
2. What were your hobbies?
Going out with my friends, going to the cinema, to pubs, parties. Besides, in summer holidays I went to the beach or to the pool and sometimes I practised aerobics in a gym.
3. Did other youngsters enjoy doing the same things?
Yes, because I shared the activities with may school friends or local neighbours.
4. What did your parents think about it?
My mother liked me having fun, but some days she told me off for not arriving on time and she didn’t agree with some of my friends.
5. What is your opinion about the way young people spend their free time nowadays?
I think that the youngsters don’t spend their time in a good way. Especially the kids, because their usual activities are to stay at home, watching TV or playing the videogames.
6. Haw do you think that this could change?
In my opinion, they should take activities in the open-air like sports: basketball, volleyball. In this way, teenagers would be at least with company and not like a lot of them, alone in their houses.
7. What are your leisure activities now?
Although I have to work, I have time for going swimming to a gym and going out with friends.
CONCLUSION
In my opinion, people some years ago spent their time having fun in a more healthy way.
Because nowadays the teenagers make activities individually at home, instead of carrying out other hobbies with different people and in different places.
by Antía Salve Bouzo, 1º BACH C
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