Summary #1

When I think before hand of the activity I am going to do such as going to New York I fantasize on how fun it is going to be, being away from school, work and stress. Then the actual trip occurs and New York was wonderful, doing things I have not done, going place I have never been, and just experiencing a whole different world. Then I realize I missed my old boring independent ways. Going to a different country I could no longer be independent I was dependent on others to take me here and there, places I wanted to go others did not want to go, which lead to stressful moments that I did not fantasize about previously. Flow moments are changed to boredom and anxiety in mere seconds, but those moments were definitely outweighed by my flow moments in New York. This just go to show within leisure there are going to be moments are just not leisure to you. On the other hand when I am at school with excessive spare time boredom takes over my whole body till I do not know what to do with myself. I read, I go on the internet but nothing cures the boredom. But then there are times when I am reading and on the internet and I see that as my leisure. This just goes to show that I have to be in a certain mindset to enjoy certain activities. My biggest problem is finding the activity that can take me out of my extreme boredom.
At time I can distinguish when leisure HAS occur in my life, I do not realize at the moment but when I take a moment to reflect on my day and or life it becomes more clear. However after carefully reviewing my day after going to class things that I think or leisure intern may have many constraints. These constraints consist of spending excessive money on traveling that I did not but in my budget, the wear and tear on my feet from excessive walking while shopping, and just managing my time, and traveling method to get everything in finding someone to take me all over a city. When someone has live their whole life in a city they do not enjoy the same things a tourist would enjoy.
Definitely to become more leisure educate I have to understand leisure itself. From this class and my previous classes I have realized that leisure does not have one definition, which makes it hard to grasp. However I do know that leisure for me can be torcher to another and vice versa. So keeping up with my studies, paying attention in my classes and paying attention to my life will help me become leisure educated.

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anxiety.. flow... boredom.... EXTREME BOREDOM

I am finding it very hard to have leisurely experiences for myself due to the fact that I have more than usual free time. During this free time I sometimes read a book and search the web for shows online. However once my eyes are sore from reading and my brain is swollen from the radiation of the computer I find myself experiencing extreme boredom. So to solve this problem I found a part time job which I thought would cure my extreme boredom, and put some extra change in pocket. I was wrong, will partially wrong, I did get to meet new people and learn a few things about there culture, and which I did find very interesting. But when it came to learning about the product the actual reason why I was at my job training my boredom was so extreme I feel asleep through the whole presentation. So as you can see I finding it extremely hard to experience flow here in Montreal. Anyone have any options to what I can do I am not from here so I don't know what is available to me!!!!

So this past weekend I made a trip to New York, which consist if traveling to and from long Island, Brooklyn and New York city.  In long Island I visited a my cousin at his School at St. Thomas Aquinas for 3 days which main consisted of drinking.  Not being a social drinker I was more than ready to leave however before leaving I was con into play a game called beer pong (which I will never play again,) not being a beer drinker it was pretty brutal.  However my trip got much better when I went to brooklyn here is where I was bombarded with a variety of different shopping experiences.  I ended up spending more money than I intended but I think it was worth it, Since all the articles I picked up were MUCH CHEAPER than shopping in Montreal or Toronto.  So this concludes my Trip to New York.

Oh yeahI forgot to mention that I forgot my camera down there so I cannot post my pictures. but once I get it back I will be sure to update the page.