As summer approaches, we student types will have some spare time on our hands. Rather than sitting around with friends debating what to do, Buzz is here to help. We have a list of activities, some zany, some useful, all of them interesting ways to pass time. We wish you well. Have fun trying new things. Be happy.
- Using wrapping paper tubes, choreograph and stage a swordfight on Stephen Avenue Mall.
- Take a walk through Weaselhead Flats and take photos before they put a freeway through it.
- Go to a club you’ve never been to–experience a genre of music that is completely new to you.
- Go to a place of worship for a religion that is not your own.
- Strike up a conversation with a homeless person.
- Wash someone else’s car–like in all those wacky commercials.
- Have a water balloon fight.
- Set up a lemonade stand like you did when you were a kid.
- Read that book you’ve been meaning to read.
- Write a letter to your grandparents; tell them you love them.
- Make a collage out of socks that have holes in them.
- Go to a pet store and name all the animals.
- Invite your neighbours over for dinner.
- Start up a street hockey game. It doesn’t matter if the only kids around are 12 years old. Do it anyways.
- Get a milk crate, take it downtown, stand on it and spew out your personal philosophy at the top of your lungs.
- Make a birdfeeder out of a large pine cone and peanut butter. Don’t let your dog eat it.
- Visit an art gallery. Really, when was the last time you got cultured?
- Cover up your television with a blanket for a week. See how you like it.
- Eat watermelon outside on a hot sunny day. Spit the seeds on the ground with no remorse.
- Spend a few hours on the roof of your house. Get a new perspective of your surroundings.
- Visit the zoo. Talk to the animals out loud. Don’t pay attention if anyone looks at you funny.
- Make up a sport. Teach it to friends. Play.
- Take a walk up Nose Hill Park. Bring a pet or a kite, depending on availability.
- Get a bunch of coloured chalk, go downtown and create sidewalk art.
- Dance energetically in locales not generally delineated for such behaviour (e.g. department stores, grocery stores, malls, your doctor’s office, etc.).
- Set up a scavenger hunt.
- Make a time capsule and bury it in your backyard.
- Memorize a song. Practice it. Go outside. Sing. Loud.
- Design a tattoo (for yourself, for your parents, for your friends, etc.).
- Get a video camera. Interview strangers (about their favourite music, about the political situation in East Timor, about the meaning of life).
- Pretend your friend is a celebrity. Interview him/her.
- Make up a language. Teach it to someone. Speak it in public. Confuse people.
- Invent a toy.
- Make an animated flip book.
- Write a crazy letter to your least favourite corporation. Make unreasonable demands. Stand at the edge of sanity.
- Re-write the national anthem.
- Look up someone from elementary school and call them up.
- Put your loose change in parking meters for other people.
Turn on a classical CD and pretend you are a conductor.
- Make sock puppets and talk to your friends with it. Pretend everything is okay.
- Make pants out of curtains. Make a belt out of rubber bands. Wear them. Draw attention to them.
- Draw reasonable hand drawn facsimile.
- Go to amateur night at a comedy club. Put a slice of bologna in each shoe. Now, when you go on stage, you’ll feel funny.
- Spend the day naked.
- Tye dye your entire wardrobe. Ignore comments everyone makes.
- Call up a self-service gas station in another part of the world. Start up a conversation that will help them pass the time.
- Play piano. (Don’t worry, you’ll remember how.)
- Write a poem using words not ordinarily found in poems (e.g. zamboni, convulsion, egg yolk, leotard, etc.).
- Trace your body on a large piece of paper. Add parts.
- Try to find dirty words in the newspaper.
- Put saran wrap over your television screen. Using a felt pen, draw moustaches on people.