Thursday, June 26, 2008 10:17 PM
break time!in playschool or kindagarden, as you call it, break times were often spent on finishing up our last spoonful of cereal or soup, and running off to the playground for a game of hide and seek or monkey bars.
when we got on to primary school, hop-stotch was everything to the girls. some of us would skip meals just because others were doing the same, while others had prefect duty to undertake and so only had 10 mins for lunch which wasnt enough. meals went from $4 for a bowl of noodles to 10 cents a seaweed packet.
secondary school was a whole lot different. girls skipped their lunch breaks just to have a game of ball by the field, some would set aside meal time to hear the latest gossip, help teachers run errands for extra work credit or to rush assignments and others were just unlucky and had to stay in class to finish up on overdued work.
university life and study breaks are awesome. from a 30 minute break starting in preschool, it went only with primary school before it extended to a 45 minute break in high school. in university, everything is run differently, breaks are how you wish it to be, skip your lectures or tutorials and all you'll be facing would be a slip of paper stating your out.
at work, i spend my lunch breaks differently. to each his own, we have our own breaks at the times assigned to us. usually its 15 for lunch and the rest of the time for shopping if i have enough to. i was so tired today, that i used the remaining 15 for nap. i slept for the first 15 before i got called up.
'amanda!
'
'amanda! what do you think youre doing?' ann asked.
'clearly, cant you see, im sleeping ann?'
'so this is how you spend your break?'
'yeah, just really tired so another 15 would do be some good'
'alright then'
just when i was about to go into my next ten minutes,
'amanda! hey, did you remember to set your alarm, because if you oversleep, it's your pay that i would be deducting from. '
'dont worry ann, i've got it covered'
'alright, because if you do, you know what happens'
'yeah, i know. good night then.'
'sheesh'
i sleep right throughout till my 15 minutes were over. it was good and apparently, while i was asleep, everyone else in the shop, got a glance at me sleeping so soundly on the table top. boy, was it embarrassing. but the sleep was good- and there might be a second from where it came.
im looking forward to tommorrow's break.
