My working day

I

My every day activities are quite routine. They do not differ much from those of any other pupil of our country. My working day begins at 7 o'clock in the morning when I get up. I do my physical jerks, wash, brush my teeth and comb my hair. Then I have breakfast. For breakfast I usually have toasted bread, fried eggs, corn flakes, tea or coffee and some jam.

At ten to eight I leave for school. I go to school five days a week. It takes me twenty minutes to get to school by bus. At school I usually have six or seven lessons. The lessons are over at two o'clock. I return home at three o'clock. I have lunch and take a short rest. I go for a walk with my friends. In spring we play football, in winter we play hockey or ski. I am back at home at a quarter past four. At four thirty I begin to do my home-work. It takes me three hours to do it. On Monday, Wednesday and Friday I attend preparatory courses at the University. I leave home, at four thirty and come back at eight thirty.

My parents usually return home at seven o'clock. When I am at home we have dinner at seven thirty. After dinner we go to the sitting-room. There we read books, watch TV, chat with the friends on the phone.

At ten o'clock I take a shower, brush my teeth and go to bed. I fall asleep fast and have no dreams.

II

I want to describe my daily actions. I will tell you the things that I do, more or less, every day. I mean the things I regularly did when I was at school. There was little variation in my life then, all days except week-ends looked very much the same.

I generally got up at about 7 o'clock. I hate getting up early, but I got used to this. In half an hour or so I was ready for breakfast. I usually had a quick light breakfast, tea and a cheese sandwich, sometimes fried eggs. Then I quickly put on my coat and left the house. The school began at 8 o'clock. As a rule I was always in a hurry because I didnt want to be late for the lessons.

Six lessons a day was the ordinary timetable. I seldom had lunch in the school's canteen. I usually had an apple and a sandwich in my bag.

School finished at a quarter to three. Twice a week I stayed at school later to play volley-ball and once a week I was busy with the English languor dub.

So I came home either at three or at five. I never took a bus on the way from school, I always walked home with my friends, it was the best time to have a chat about school and other things. When I came home my Granny always had dinner ready just in time. After dinner I changed my school uniform and read something or listened to the music, but not longer than an hour.

The final year at school was a pretty hard one. A lot of homework in every subject on the one hand and additional practice in languages on the other. Homework took me about four or five hours a day. I normally finished doing my homework at 11 with hardly any breaks since 6 o'clock. There was practically no time for television or friends. It was like this with my other schoolmates, I mean those who thought of going into higher education.