Thursday, October 05, 2006

I was trying my best to adept to the custom in Canada better and better. I had changed my habits that were in the past greatly. For example, I used to get up at six o’clock and go to bed at 11 o’clock everyday when I was in high school. And usually took a nap in the noon. It was one of the regulations of our school. If you didn’t get out or come back dormitories on time, you would be punished and left a record on your personal dossier. So when the morning bell rang, everyone got up; put on clothes; made a quilt and tidied bed as soon as possible; when the evening bell rang, everyone hurried up to brush teeth, get hot water to wash feet and clothes. The poor guy on duty had to spend time in cleaning floor too. We did this work in turn. If you were in the porch, you could see everybody was almost running. However things has changed since I came to Canada. Our class started at twelve o’clock. It forced me canceling my nap in noon. Then, in order not be tired in the day, my biological clock assigned my nap time to my night sleep time. So I got up much later than before—average a quarter to eight every day. My sleeping time change directly resulted in my meals change. I had three meals a day in the past. But now, my breakfast was postponed to nine o’clock, so I felt no hunger any more in the noon. But my stomach yelled when I finished school and went back home. So I sat in front of table and start swallowing the food my mother cooked for me. I stayed besides table for a long time and ate continuously. My mother was curious and asked me, “Is the food delicious?” I replied to her, “The same as before, I just force myself taking in the same amount of food in two meals instead of three. Everything about my daily life changed a lot, what annoyed me most was that my English didn’t change much. What should I do? What should I do? Everyone who answer me, 100$ at first. He he he.

3 comments:

Carolyn said...

Oh my dear... I know all about changing your biological clock.
When I lived in Nova Scotia, I always took a nap at 6pm. Ever since I was a little girl, my dad would come home from work at 5pm, put the news on TV, and then fall asleep at 6pm for a total of 20 minutes of sleeping. I used to do the same all the time, fall asleep when he did. It was just a habit. Then, when I moved to Calgary, the time difference is 3 hours behind, so whenever 3pm rolls around during the day, I'm always yawning. It's my naptime, if I was living back home! Everything else I was able to change ok; my eating hours, my bed times, my waking up times. But my nap will always be at 6pm Nova Scotia time, when my Dad is sleeping on the couch at home. Funny, isn't it?

Scott Douglas said...

Hmmmm, keep on trying . . . that's all I can advise you about. I hope you have a friend (anyone, Chinese, English, Russian . . .)that you can chat with in Enlish outside of class. It'll help your speaking skills a lot.

Ms Tsang said...

I can understand! Every day, I come home from school totally exhausted. I find that in the summertime, when I don't have school, I can go the whole day without a nap, and am usually energized by the night time. Although, when i am back in school, starting Septembers, my mind gets so tired and I have to take a nap everyday after school.

It's a bad habit, because I always have homework, but I'm sooo tired!!!