LONG WEEKENDS

Holidays are one of my favourite periods of the year. I love doing nothing and having nothing to do! However, I am always busy, no matter what time of the year I am at. Besides this, long weekends are a really good opportunity to rest from the university life. Long weekends are a few-days-rest that I love to spend on doing nothing as I did not have plenty of homework to do. In all the long weekends I have had in my lifetime, I have always wasted my time. People usually travel and go abroad on long weekends, but I can no longer see long weekends in the same way as I did in the past. Unfortunately, although long weekends are meant to rest and to meet friends, they are actually meant to study.

Before in my life, I used to spend the whole time I could resting. Staying at home, watching films in the sofa with a blanket and eating some popcorn have always been my favourite plans. When I had some free time from studying I loved to search on the Internet issues I am interested in, to follow my favourite singers fan pages and basically spending time on me. Another thing I really love is reading so when I could I spent the whole day and night reading books. I was a passionate reader but I could not focus on reading when I had study to do. I only read on holidays and long weekends since they are a really good occasion to disconnect and to concentrate on doing things I like doing.

Meeting friends is actually one of my favourite parts of long weekends. In the present, I am living in Murcia and I love it. But one of the bad things about it is that I do not get to see my friends very often. I do not meet the friends that chose not to study and so they are still living in San Pedro, my hometown. When I am able to come back and I have free time, I love meeting my friends. I have many friends that are not friends between them so I have to choose from weekend to weekend which ones I have not met for a long time and which ones I want to see. During long weekends I can do a lot of things but I always end up doing less than I would have liked since I have no time for all those things.

Lately, I have found out that long weekends are the best time for catching up with my homework and studying. They are very lengthy and I have time to study a lot! During the course at university I always have any tasks to do and I cannot study as much as I would like. So this past long weekend, I have caught up on behind tasks and practices and I have also had time for studying a bit. Therefore, although I would rather spend long weekends resting and meeting friends I welcome the time that has been given to me to be up to date with the course.

Overall, long weekends still are an extraordinary time to spend on studying, resting or meeting friends. There are always long weekends during the year and if I have to spend one of them studying, I do not mind. There will be others in which I will be able to do nothing. The matter is that I do not waste my time ever again since once the time has passed, there is no turning back.