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Tell me about your hobby/activities you're involved.
My favorite hobbies for me would include sports. Almost any kind of sport. My favorite to play would be basketball, then football, then third would be badminton. To watch, hockey would be my favorite. A close second would be football and then baseball after that. I am also involved in the church. Every Sunday night I volunteer and help at the Youth Group at our church, helping out the Youth Director, playing and just hanging out with all of the kids that come.
Can you tell me more about the volunteer work that you do? How long have you been doing it, what activities you do with the children, what church you do this volunteer work at, etc.
I volunteer at United Methodist Church in Princeton. A lot of the times I just sit with the kids and talk with them. I lead the small groups in the weekly conversation. I play the games with them and just be there. The Youth Director at our church is only 23 and I'm 20, so it is really nice for the junior and senior high youth to have a some people around their age, but older to talk about school, life and their spiritual life too. Its a blast.
How has this impacted your life? What is the best moment you have ever had with getting involved in the church? Who introduced and instructed you to working with the kids? Why did you get started with getting involved? What is the biggest challenge for you and the easiest? Is there anything else you would like to tell us about your hobby that
might surprise or interests us?
This has greatly helped my life in a positive way. I have grown a lot spiritually. The best moment I have had was this summer when we went to South Dakota for our Summer Service Trip. We had a blast helping people fix up their houses and playing with the kids. One day the Youth Director called me up when he got the job and asked if I wanted to help out the Youth Group. It was weird because I was trying to think of a way to get involved in the church. The hardest thing of helping is getting some kids to pay attention and get serious in those times that need to be quiet and serious. The easiest thing was to hang out and talk with the kids. I am really a laid back person so it fits my lifestyle perfect.
Having trouble staying awake after that first cup of coffee in the morning? A professor at the University of Minnesota Psychology Department says you might not be getting enough sleep.
Professor Diana Gant, who has been in the department for 17 years, says people should be getting nine to 10 hours of sleep, including an afternoon nap. "People on average gets about seven hours of sleep of night."
Not everyone agrees with her but wants people to think of sleep like exercise. "People exercise it's healthy. Sleep is healthy." Despite the reasons why people are not getting enough sleep, she said some of the consequences for the lack of sleep will materialize.
"Going without enough sleep is as much of a public and personal safety hazard as going to work drunk," she said. "It can make people clumsy, stupid, and unhappy."
Disasters like the shuttle Challenger, the accident at Russia's Chernobyl nuclear reactor and the Exxon Valdez oil spill, in Gant's words, were caused by a lack of sleep.
Another example Gant gives is an eight percent increase in accidents the day after the time change, and there's a corresponding decrease in accidents in the fall when people gain an extra hour of sleep.
Almost everyone in the field agrees on how to solve the problem of sleep shortage, Gant added. It can be as easy as finding a place that's dark and quiet, relax an hour before going to bed, the room temperature should be cool.
