Column: Free time at NSA!

Have a break!

By: Frédérick Hallé

Couple of hockey guys were having fun,
putting 106 t-shirts on Fred Halle at diner time.

Who doesn’t like free time after a good day at school and at practice?

At NSA most of the free time is right after school, 6:15 pm to 8pm. There isn’t much to do, but people find ways to have fun.

Students wish they could have more free time. They actually have quit a decent amount; they just don’t spend it efficiently. Let me give you an example. As a hockey player, I am usually free around 11 am until class start at 1. By the time you eat lunch, get ready for class or have a meeting, you maybe have 30minutes that you could use wisely. Keep in mind these 30 minutes. After this, you get to class, and most of people have a free 42minutes bloc. We are now at 1hour 12 minutes.  Let’s say you don’t screw around and do your homework, and you add day study hall, which is another 42minutes plus study hall at night, which is 1hour, it gives you 2hours 54 minutes of time to do your homework.

After this, you know that you can hang out with your friends, play video games or just take a nap at 6:15 to 8 plus 9 to 9:30 before everyone has to be in their dorm.

It gives you 2 hours 15 minutes to do whatever you want, other then being in ‘’school’’. I putted school in quotation mark because we are still in the school building but at that time, it is more like are house. Obviously you have other time that you can have fun with your friends but it’s maybe during snack time, in class, practicing your sports or at lunch so you can’t do what you want.

If you use your time wisely during the day with the 2hours 54 minutes of study time, the free 2 hours 15miuntes that you have, should not be use to do homework, but to hang out with your friends, laugh and change your mind.

There are not a lot of activities that you can do during that lapse of time. Depending on the season, the weather or the period of the year, you will do different things during your free time.

During the fall, there isn’t much to do, because it is always rainy, the weather is not very appreciated, and it’s starting to be cold. During the winter, it isn’t much better, but at least, people that like snow, get to go play hockey at the outside rink, get to skate on the lake, go sliding or just fight in the snow like little kids. Springtime is probably the most liked season of the school year partly because students get more free time, result of the end of the sports season. The weather is getting better and warmer, it’s not too rainy and the end of the year gets closer.

Take time to relax, enjoyed your free time is what I’m telling you. It is important that you do it, otherwise in a month or two, you’re going to get tired of school, you will go crazy and you won’t work as hard as you should.

Also, free times gives you the opportunity to get closer from people on your team and at school, you get to know them better.

Remember to use your time wisely, make sure you take time for yourself.