Blog Summary 2

After reviewing my blogs I realized that most of my blogs have to do with my work, which means that very often I experience leisure at work. It also made me realize that although I am experiencing leisure at work I don’t really have the time to experience pure leisure where I am intrinsically motivated. I have been thinking of ideas of what I can do that would be a totally new leisure experience and any idea I think of doing I can’t because I am constrained with time. I think knowing what your constraints are a part of being leisure educated. Knowing that time is a big constraint for me because I am busy with work and school I have to make sure I take advantage my unobligated time to do something that is pure leisure to me and will improve my quality of life.

I am a leisure educator in a couple different ways. I plan parties at promotions where people have incredible new leisure experience. For example I did a promotion where people in the bar played different games and somebody from the bar that night won an all inclusive trip to Cuba. Although it might be purple leisure because it is in a bar where people are drinking the games and the excitement of winning is still a leisure experience. It deals with a couple different components of leisure education. The first one is being self determined in leisure. I am providing opportunities for people to choose in participating in a leisure activity. One of the games we had at the bar was a memory game with images. This promoted self determination because it challenged the person memory. Another way it helped people become self determined in leisure was by giving people the opportunity to take initiation to participate in the activities. The biggest component that my job has to do with leisure education is providing ways for people to interact socially. A promotion always has some type of social interaction. It usually has social interactions with different people that do not know each other. This helps people develop a sense of social competence and can develop friendships. I’m sorry I’m always writing about my work it just happens to take up a lot of my time and also has a lot to do with leisure.

I am also a leisure educator outside of work. For example the other day I invited a friend to the gym and it was her first time. I have been going for a long time so I was able to teach her a few things. For example how the machines work and proper form to different exercises. I also told her the benefits that I get from doing exercises which is mostly just a great feeling once you are done.

My Leisure Weekend My weekend consisted of both work, leisure and a little bit of work and leisure at the same time. I spent the first half of Friday night trying to study for one of my classes. Sometimes studying isn’t that bad for me and can even be considered leisure once in awhile if I am really into it, on a Friday night though it is definitely not a leisure experience. I was extrinsically motivated to study because I felt guilty because I had not done much studying all week. I was also having a hard time concentrating on the material because it was a Friday night and I kept thinking of other exiting things I could be doing instead. I ended up getting into and then renting a movie with a friend. Saturday started with work. I had to pick some things up at work and set up my promotion that was that night at O’regans Irish Pub. The promotion was very relaxed, the only thing that didn’t go well was that the bar was lacking people. At 6:45 we picked a name out of a box and it happened to be one of my friends who won. My pretty good chances seeing as there was only about 25 people in the bar and 15 of them were my friends. At 6:45 PM one of my friends won the promotion which means that he got to bring 3 other friends and to take a limo to the Habs game against Anaheim. I also got to go in the Limo and to the game with them. This was definitely a time where I experienced leisure at work. I am not quite sure if that is a form of leisure education. Two guys who won had never been to a game before and never been in a limo before. This was a new leisure experience for them. They did not have to worry about any structural constraints like money or time; they did not have to worry about interpersonal constraints because they went with friends. Don’t know if winning a contest can be considered leisure education though. I am doing the same promotion tomorrow at Irish Embassy and I am pretty exited for it.