Community Service

These past saturdays I've been dedicating my time to some community service hours. I am taking a sociology class and for our final, we need to complete 30 hours of community service. It took me a while to decide where i wanted to do my hours at. A friend and I decided that we wanted to do our hours together and we called a nursing home. They called back a week later in the school hours so we weren't able to answer, we called them back, and never heard from them again. Time was really starting to run out and neither of us cared what we were going to do and we were taking any suggestions. We asked our teacher and he suggested Jewish nursing home. Neither of us are Jewish so we wanted to wait a bit to see if anything else came along. After about two weeks of nothing else, we called the nursing home. With in half an hour of leaving a message, a lady called back. This already was a good thing. She told us she wanted to meet with us and we scheduled a day. Since then, I've had many new experiences and learned a bunch of new things. It's a great experience and your doing something good. I suggest that anyone who can, should help out anywhere possible. It makes you feel great and helping the need is always a good thing.

Sleep

These past few weeks, I've been in my bed at around 9 pm. When I wake up the next morning at about 6:30, I feel very refreshed and ready to start the day on a good foot. Studies have shown that teens haven't been getting enough sleep in recent years. Teenagers have the stereotype that they all go to bed late, wake up late, and always sleep in class. Some studies that were done show that it is like this in teens because of the "biological clock" that they have in them. This "clock" is known as the circadian rhythm. It changes in teens because of a horomone that is released in the brain called melatonin. This horomone is produced later at night, so that is why most teens do not fall asleep early, or earlier than kids and adults.

Teenagers should get a total of 8 and a half hours of sleep, at minimum, each night. Sleep helps our moods, our performance, and it is very important. How many hours of sleep did you get last night?