A late topic to share, but it’s never too late to have fun!
I bet every summer, all we do is sit at home browsing internet and social medias all day, and when you do that it’s fun, but when you think about, you’ll realize how boring your days were. Today I’ll give some idea how to spend your summer so every day will be a little adventure!
- What most people do on summer vacation is traveling. Traveling in summer is very common all over the world, because it will push all your worries and relief stress, plus you can get so much fun there doing various activities. You don’t have to travel to very far place of expensive place to have fun, as long as the city you want to go have fun elements you can enjoy and have fun, travel there. There’s a lot of places and cities you can travel and experience another culture, if you want to travel to place like that, I recommend Bali 🙂
Check this website for cheap flights: http://www.tripadvisor.com/Flights-g294226-Bali-Cheap_Discount_Airfares.html
I personally did not use it before, so you must do your own research about it before paying J
However, because traveling is very common during summer, be aware that everything will be expensive as well very crowded.
- Another common way to have fun in the summer is of course beach! There’s a tons of stuff you can do in the beach, and that’s includes swimming, eating, playing…etc. You can call you friend or family to hang out in the beach and eat melons or lunch there, you can play there like volleyball, and play with your little brother with sand. You can have so much fun in the beach, especially if your friends around.
- Next is Movie Theater! Movie Theaters never slips from anyone’s mind! It’s summer, let’s go and watch a movie! It’s a very nice way to kill time while having fun watching movies with friends or alone with popcorn. Check this website for Most Popular Feature Films Released In 2015: http://www.imdb.com/search/title?year=2015,2015&title_type=feature&sort=moviemeter,asc
- Amusement Park is very popular during summer, but it’s very boring by yourself, so go there with your friends and family and have a fun day there with all you’re might!
- Simply hang out with friends! Anywhere is acceptable; with your friends everywhere is fun, whether is restaurants, beach, Movie Theater, sleep over…etc. You will have fun, and you know that already.
- Get a part-time job or volunteer! Another way to have fun and gain experience and some cash 😉 there’s a lot of people who get a part-time job to kill time, and get a lot of experiences and earn money. If you’re not allowed to work, you can always volunteer. Search places in your local asking for volunteers, you will have fun meeting new people, gain experience, and obviously kill time.
I looked for Ideas to part-time job for you: http://www.moneycrashers.com/part-time-jobs-high-school-students/
It’s for high school student, but that does not mean you can’t do it J
If you don’t know what to volunteer for check this website: http://www.youth.gc.ca/eng/topics/jobs/volunteer.shtml
However, not every day you will go outside, or simply you’re an indoor person. Don’t worry there’s still so much things you can do at home.
- Do a Makeover.
Your room is a mess after finals, there’s so many junk everywhere and you’re lazy to clean it, today is the day to get it clean. Cleaning is not fun, but you have to make it done before you mom start shouting you, right? Play some music, and don’t think about anything and start cleaning right away. Cleaning might be not fun to do, but decorating is fun, you can’t decorate while your room is upside down. You can look online for ideas and DIY you can do to decorate your room, aside from changing the bedding and painting the walls.
- Learn something new.
For example learn a language. There are language courses online you can register, but it doesn’t have to be a course, you can search online for books, or free books to download, or you can look for tutorials or lessons on either Google or YouTube. There’s endless way to learn without paying money.
For any one who’s learning Japanese like me, you can try Japanese from zero. You can find in Amazon.com right here: http://www.amazon.com/Japanese-Zero-Techniques-Students-Professionals/dp/0976998122. Or for free from YesJapan.com: http://www.yesjapan.com/
- Discover a new hobby.
Try doing different stuff everyday. Try poems, drawing, swimming, sewing, singing…etc. Try them all and if you start liking any of those stick to it. It will be a life changing: p
I tried sweet once but it didn’t work out for me as a hobby, but I’m sure other people will. I learned how to make sweets from Joe’s blog: http://www.joepastry.com/joes-recipes/
- Join contest/competitions/tournaments.
If have a skill or a hobby, and you want chances to do it in another way or more often, join various contest and completions. It will definitely kill time and have fun doing what you like, whether online or not.
You can easily find contest and competitions everywhere really, but you can look at Deviant Art if you’re an artist: http://www.deviantart.com/browse/all/ , and: http://contests.deviantart.com/
Tournaments might not be available all time, but if you search online you will find a couple, like chess tournaments. I tried to look for a chess tournaments and I found one for free right here: http://www.chess.com/tournaments/.
- Start a new project.
Projects are fun to do. I did a blog post about a long time ago; you can check it for more details: https://yumenomichi.wordpress.com/2012/08/15/projects-can-you-start-a-one/. But I did wrote it in 2012, very bad writing skills ^^” *trying to hide my shame* But anyway, a new project is very fun, but you have to keep at it.
These some of my favorites and I personally do it and enjoy it.
If you need more check out WikiHow: http://www.wikihow.com/Beat-Boredom-over-the-Summer
I hope you will have the best summer ever!
Pictures are drawn by me 😀
~Mikan
Yume No Michi 