You don’t need to travel to have a spectacular spring break

by Emily Hines and Tom Verdon

After weeks and weeks of working hard in school, spring break is just around the corner. Spring break is a time to relax and rejuvenate yourself. If you don’t already have plans to relocate to some exotic locale for spring break, you might just be thinking it’s a whole week to stay up 18 hours a day playing video games and “saving the world,” when in all reality at the end of the game, all you have really done is lost numerous hours of sleep and gained a big cheesy, “I did it!”

Instead of being your “video game hero,” try doing something constructive like taking apart your parents’ car and trying to put it back together again. Your parents have always told you to do something constructive, and this helps you develop your mechanical skills.

If you’re not much of a mechanic, try learning to crochet. When you learn to make more than just a straight line you can join your grandmother in the Red Hat Society and help make blankets for everybody in the community.

A way to earn some extra cash is to help push your neighbor toward that next car purchase by hanging a “For Sale” sign in their car’s window. Everyone always talks about updating his or her vehicle; you never know, your neighbor might have just been talking about updating theirs a few days ago.

Your teachers always tell you to stop being lazy, but if they want you to stop being lazy, why do they use 3.14 when dealing with pi when everyone knows it’s longer than three digits? For the students at Pittsford who like to be a little bit more rounded with their math classes, and/or if you want to impress your teacher, try using your spring break to freshen up on your knowledge of pi by memorizing the first 50 digits of pi, rather than the first 3.

For those of you who are a little more brave, try convincing someone to donate to your “charity;” it may not be legal, but you may get some extra cash. Just remember, you didn’t get it from us.

In Michigan, we get plenty of snow. We get so much snow that some of us may be a little fed up with the winter weather. Instead of using your time on spring break for doing “worthless” activities, work your muscles by shoveling and exercise your sharing techniques by giving your snow to your neighbors’ sidewalks and driveways. They will thank you.

If you can’t get someone to donate to your “charity” or you have no luck selling your neighbor’s car, take your sibling’s favorite stuffed animal to the store and create an entertaining show for yourself as you walk around with the animal wrapped in your arms, loudly saying, “You can’t buy that, put it down!” to your animal. Don’t mind the weird stares from strangers; I’m sure they’ll just be impressed at your ability to discipline your stuffed animal.

For some of us during spring break, we have no transportation to get to grandma’s or the store, and living in the Hillsdale County area, probably most of us live on a back road. For this activity all you need is your hands. Go to an intersection near your house and direct traffic. Everywhere at school and local areas you see signs telling people to serve their community better; here’s a way to do just that.

There are many ways to use your spring break, and these are just a few. We must warn you first, though. Some of these activities may result in little or severe trouble, or getting you yelled at by your neighbors, community, or parents. Take part in these events at your own risk, and have a great spring break!