Making Use of Your Holidays

What do you do now that your exams are over?

Holidays are the time you spend after your exam doing things you enjoy to recuperate from a stressful term at school and getting energized for new challenges
Here are some things we suggest you do =)
1. Relax

Especially for students who have been stressing out and burning midnight oil to study for exams, its time to let loose.

Make use of your school holidays to calm your nerves and reduce your stress level. You will feel better and more full of drive and energy when school reopens.

How exactly do you relax?
2. Enter a challenge.

If you love sports, join a camp, learn a new sport or activity. Do something that you have never tried before. You may even visit an outer island or a foreign country.

You will get to broaden your horizon by meeting new people, learning new ways of doing things and maybe develop a new interest.

3. Pursue Your Hobbies
During term time, you hardly have any spare time to do things you enjoy doing such as reading, sports, watching movies and maybe sewing or cooking.

During this month your body should automatically be on slow mode and it is time for you to invest minutes on things you really love doing,

4. Volunteer Your Time

We often find that despite having good intentions, it is hard to find time to give back to society during term time. This is because it requires a commitment to make a difference and often even our weekends are spent doing homework.

By taking part in such volunteer work, you could contribute your time and effort towards helping the needy. It could turn out to be a most rewarding experience for you.

5. Catch Up With Your Family And Friends

Every one of us is involved in our own personal affairs everyday. Amidst all this, we sometimes neglect the important people around us, including our family members and friends.

For example, while studying for your exams, you might not have spared enough time for your parents, brothers and sisters. You might be too preoccupied with your own studies that you did not realise that your family members might have needed you most at that time.

Your action may have even caused them hurt. Recall how your parents have taken great care of you all this while, and how your brothers and sisters have helped you in many ways too.

What you can do now is to try and catch up lost time with them. Show your care, concern and appreciation towards them. It may mean as little as helping with the housework while your parents are working. It may mean as easy as helping your brothers and sisters with their school projects. This will not only make your family more united, it will also make them realise that you also cherish them.

Remember, though, that you should not stop doing so once school reopens!

6. Clear Up Your Room!

Did you create a big mess of your rooms while preparing for your school exams? Did you throw your books all over the place, dump your belongings in all corners, and forget to clear your waste paper baskets? Then this is a good time to start clearing your room if you are guilty of the above.

A tidy and clean room is conducive to living and studying. It also shows how much you respect yourself and your family members. Your family members will greatly appreciate it if your room is neat and clean when they bring their friends home. So will your friends when they suddenly pay you a surprise visit!
7. Take Up A Vacation Job!

If you are a student in a secondary school, junior college or polytechnic, you can take up a vacation job during your school holidays. This will allow you to gain valuable working experience, including gaining new job skills, learning how to interact with people, and understanding how difficult it is for your parents to work and support you.

You may even wish to try a job similar to what you wish to do when you graduate. This will allow you to get a feel of how your future job may be like, and you can decide whether it is suitable for you or not.

Of course, the extra cash you will earn at the vacation job will also bring you satisfaction, because you have worked for it!

8. Catch Up On Your Studies!

Last but not least, if you have not worked hard enough in your previous semester, or are still lagging behind your classmates despite your hard work, you should make use of your school holidays to catch up with your school work.

Nobody said studying is easy, but if you are willing to spend more time on your studies, you will achieve good grades in time to come. Remember the golden rule, "Practice makes perfect!"