Blog Summary 2

“Be Aware of Self in Leisure”

In one of my blog, I was a leisure educator by identifying my friend Jennifer’s preference on sports. She likes to watch sports games rather than playing, and in the past she really enjoyed to watch her brother’s hockey games and her sister’s ringuette games. However, after she had a child, she had not time to watch any sports games. As leisure educator, I identified her constraints and her past participations in hockey games. I created an opportunity for her to participate in a hockey game by inviting her to watch a hockey game in Loyola arena and offering a free ticket. The free ticket motivated her to come to the game by not worrying her financial. Furthermore, I noticed that she had a lot of stress for both school and family’s duty, I helped her to improve her life quality by creating an opportunity for her experiencing leisure and helping her to create a time for her to take a break from family and school. Thus, it allows her to have leisure and enjoying her leisure by watching a hockey game that allowed her to leave her mind from her daily work and enjoying her time outside of home.

“Appreciate Leisure”

Through out my blogs, I always managed to find leisure by eating, going grocery store, spending time with my teammate and writing poems. I understand leisure benefits for physical and mental, for example, writing a poem allowed me to express my stress and negative emotions thus it allowed me to feel better emotionally. As leisure educator, I transfer this knowledge by building options for leisure for those who have trouble understand and appreciate leisure. I have a friend called Katie, she is currently studied in pharmacy in University of Montreal. During the week and weekend, she rarely had a time for leisure and when she was not doing her school works, she did not know what to do. As a leisure educator, I educated her to appreciate leisure by suggesting several possibilities for her to experience leisure. First, I identified her preferences for leisure, she likes to read, hang around with friends and watch sports games especially football games. During this weekend, I called her and suggested several choices of leisure; watch a hockey game in Loyola Arena, spend time in her house and make pizzas together, going out for a movie or drink a coffee in Tim Horton. At first time, we chose to spend time in her house and make pizzas together on Friday, but she cannot do it anymore because she was very busy on Friday with her classes and works. Even though I could not go to her house, I asked if she wanted to go my hockey game on Saturday’s night. Since she enjoyed watching sports game, we replaced making pizzas at her home by a hockey game. Rather she spend entire weekend at home and not knowing what to do, I opened up another option for her to enjoy leisure. From this experience, I taught her to discover different options for her to choose based on her preferences, and taught her to be flexible with leisure by aware several options for leisure.

"Acquire Recreation Activity Skills”

Last year, at Christmas, I invited my friend Katie to skating rink at Bonaventure. I know that the reason that she does more passive leisure than active leisure because she is not very athletic and she does not have any one to teach her skills that require for her to experience skating. Katie told me that she would like to learn how to skate and she really likes to skate but she cannot do it because lack of skill and she scares to get hurt by skating alone. So on last year Christmas, I managed to get a time to teach her how to skate. First, I noticed that she is beginner and she was feeling scared to get on the ice. Thus, I hold her hands to make her feel comfortable as we stepped on to the ice. Then, I taught her the basic of skating by showing to her the “L” shape for beginner’s skaters and asked her to imitate me. After I allowed her to practice and holding on my hands. Once she mastered this technique and I noticed her fear reduced, I started to increase the speed. At beginning she felt the speed was a challenge, then once she matched her skill with the challenge; she was no longer scared, she enjoyed without holding on my hands anymore.My friend really enjoyed her time in the skating rink and after that day, she asked me if we can next month and I said yes.

Tim Horton & Hockey game

Yesterday, i was really not motivated to go but I have to, I have some issue that I have to deal with it and it has not gone well. The issue had bothered deep in my heart. On friday, I had time off from hockey, I went to Tim Horton to drink my favor coffee Ice cappiccino alone, it was a bit relaxing. Then I went home and listened to music and watched the Pirates Carribean movie to entertain myself.I felt that even though I did not have leisure from the entire weekend nor from hockey, i still managed to find leisure. I appreciated leisure by always opening up my options.

Poem: Burden

As you walk

With an innocent face

You see the hatred toward you

You look around

Confused and Sadness

Deeply you wounded

Your love broke

By cruelty of human being

You see and observe

You cannot escape

Deely you are hurted

A tear drops from an eye

With an innocent heart

You know and you know

You see and observe

You do not understand the mortality

But deeply you are hurt

Feeling betrayed

Feeling innocent

You can see how the world can be a cruel place

You yell "innocent"

No one heard and no one understand

The thing that you love

Slowly detoriate at front of your face

You are no longer a star

But the painful player

Who wounded deeply

Who cried in his heart

A tear drops on the rose

Only on the hand of God can help you.

Poem

As life goes on

Feel a deep pain

Shadowed by a large cloud

No ways to go

Feel insanly pain

That I just want to cry out

Through a large a crowd

I could not see anything

I just see myself

Shall thy

I am no longer myself

Through my pain

I learned a lesson

As fast as the wind

No one see

No one heard

No one understand

You saw the blood bleed across the face

You can see the hate

Betrayal is the winner

But you can't do anything

So passively

That all I heard is a scream

From nothing to be somebody

Is betrayal to your identity and your world

But you try to change

The storm strikes through your heart

You bleed

The wound would not heal

You wonder

When the nature will stop to be cruel

And violent will stop through more sun

Less storm and rain

More sun,

More colorful flowers surrounded the garden

Blue sky and white cloud

That's all I want to see

No more storm and rain

But sun shines through my sight

Sunday, Family Dinner

On sunday, my friend and I watched my team played against McGill. It was a good hockey game,despite the big defeat we had against our rival but the game excited us that I totally forgot the time and I did not realized that I had already watched the game for two hours. I thought that the game finished at 4pm but it finished at 5pm and I totally lost the sense of time and I totally forgot to phone my parents; first time I experienced the flow. I really enjoyed watched the hockey game with my friend called Jennifer from my diversity class. After the game, I rushed back home and spend time with my family in my favor chinese restaurant. I could smell the delicious foods passed by; stemmed noodles, fried rice, vegetables, shriemp balls, chicken and vegetables in a hot pot and you could see them boiled nicely in a pot. I chatted with my parents about my day with my friend Jennifer and how excited the game was. Spending my time with my family is a great leisure for me; talked about my feelings, events, thoughts and jokes. We laughed and ate delicious foods; it was great! I love my family and that's why I was there for them.

Ottawa vs Concordia

Yesterday, my team and I travelled to Ottawa to play a hockey game. The season just started, and, we had already a tough game. As a third strike, I am spending my leisure by encouraging and building the team confidence. I could say that I was doing passive leisure; I watched the game, enjoyed and marked down how many shot each team. I really enjoyed the game, seeing the cheerring cloud and cheering for my team. Being there for my team, it is my instrinsic motivation. I love the sports and crowds.Despite the lost. but being there is the greatest thing ever.

Poem for Leisure

Lifestyle
Epression
Incredible
Spend Time
Use Well
Read for leisure
Experiencing a pleasant time

An Empty Friday Day

Nothing really much to do, I done pretty my exam and assignment.Well, I tried to look for think to do, I did not feel to read so I decided to go home. Then, just on my way home, I saw my parents was going to grocery shopping COSTCO. They asked whether I wanted to come with them, I was really tired after the pointless practice that I had this morning, I told myself " Why not? Give myself a credit for my hard work" I know many people would not find grocery shopping would be a leisure, well I do. I mean, I get to spend time with my family, try-out different food and chat with my family. I find really relaxing, afterall, I had been away for hockey tournaments and I would be away again this weekend, and I rarely get to spend a quality time with my family despite my classes started early and finished late. My dad has to work, my younger brother has his only life and my older brother moved out to United States. I am very glad that I did get to spend time with time because in the weekend, I will be very busy again. I think Leisure helped me to define my feelings and it allows me to express my love for my family. I love hockey, I love my program, I love my family as well.

Eating as leisure!

Eat Eat and Eat
Drink a soup
After a stressfull day
Eat chewey noodles
Leave your brain in peace
I love noodles
Noddles Noodles Noodles
Delicious and Hot Passion over noodles
It's just feel so great
With no worry
Eat and Laugh
You feel relieve
It is just cannot be greater than that

Week of Hell

Study, Study and Study. No time for nothing, I had a bit of leisure like watching a bit of T.V and playing hockey. I still need to find a time to go to Le Gym in Downtown, so far I still training in the little gym back in Loyola and I ran 5 km this friday. Today, I had a golf class on the golf course, how pathetic! There are 15 holes and we did not play not of them. My coach told me that it is worth of while to pay $50 for this activity, instead he taught me how to swing a Sand raquet and swing pudding. What a waisting time! It's a horrible leisure decision for this coach to make, he made me come all the way from Brossard to La prairie for some stupid lesson about sand raquet and swing a pudding. Plus, today, I almost got hit by a ball from my dad. OMG! One chance I have a quick reflex and I re-acted very quickly by getting away. I was angry and freak out, he could almost kill me or at least I could sended to hospital. Horrible experience, the most horrible leisure experience that I had ever have in golf history. On top of that, I had assignment, projects and studies to do and I was right for not wanting to go to golf class, I would rather spend my time with teammate for hockey fundraising in today's football game. Dam! what a week!

RoOkIe NiGhT on Saturday! Party, Party and Party

Wow! Amazing night. This saturday, we had a rookie night for hockey. I was having so fun, we played games and we dressed up very ridiculousily. At begining, we have to play games like finding pucks in the arena, singing, dancing and making 7 turns by using a hockey stick and trying to run around the corn after the 7 turns. It was so funny, I falled after 7 turns, I was dizzy that I could not even stand straight. Dam! I always lost, and every we lost, we have to pick ' a deal or no deal' on the following chart. One of my teammate ended up picking a new hair fashion style, and her hair ended up with two bony tails; one big and one small. I was so laughing so much that I ended up with that hair style too, that was hilourious. One of the activity that we have to do, it is put our face in a bowl of bowder and tried to a skittle in there. With my hilourious hairstyle, my face and my hair was covering in white powder. In the reality, there is no skittle in the powder. The most funniest thing from this activity, I have to dress up as most ridiculous old lady. I have to wear a big bra with water balloon in the bra, I have to wear three years children bicycle helmet, shinny make-up on my face, spendex pants(purple), and I have to walk around with ski boots. The most scariest thing about this, it was that we have to walk around in the bar with this costume. This not over yet, after that night, I was really drunk that I did not realize that all my clothes and shoes were in the arena. So what happen is, next morning, I wake up in my teammate and I realized that my clothes, shoes and bag were in arena, I wanted to study for my monday class, so I decided that I have to a wear my grey shirt with a wet sports bra and purple spendex and I have to wear ski boots to walk all the way to the arena. That's was very embarrasing. From all the way, I heard laughter and staring. What a day, at least I know it is not happen again.