Tag: Canberra

It’s Sunday, 3:30pm in Canberra. In half an hour all the stores in town close and the only sources of entertainment left are the movies and restaurants.

I need to find a way to avoid falling into the category of “oh my God it’s Monday! Thank God it’s Friday!” people.

Part of the problem is that Canberra is a city that allows for its residents to fall into an inertia of just staying at home on the weekend. On the other hand, there are a lot of outdoors things to do when the weather is nice. It requires the initiative and effort of the individual.

It doesn’t help that public transport on weekends is not frequent. A private mode of transport is almost a necessity to really enjoy this town unless of course you’re able to live in or near the city itself.

Anyway, this post is perhaps a reminder and incentive for me to not sleep in on weekends and to get up and do things. Most of all to make the most of the leisure time the weekend affords us.

We take it for granted that the fact we only work 8 hours a day and 40 hours a week was something our predecessors fought for internationally.

So, I’m looking forward to going to work early tomorrow morning. I’m going to enjoy every afternoon this week and I’ll be looking forward to Friday afternoon but not in the ‘end of the world fashion’ as the stereotype mentioned before.