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Beat the back to school blues
Oh! My God, It’s the last week of holidays. It’s such a bad feeling, it’s something so weighty, even a quick run through the garden sprinkler or a dip into chocolate won’t lift your spirits. It’s like a year’s worth of Monday mornings have been flung at you. I know most of us must be having jitters about going back to school. As though you’ve woken up to find the school principal on one side of you and the tough kid who planted a firecracker under your chair on the other side. The back-to-school feeling is so disgusting, you feel like jumping into a deep freezing pond. Sometimes there’s a heating in your brain that you can’t run from, a turbulence in your tummy that even the hardiest belch won’t shift.
And all your mum can do is scream, “Come inside and try your new uniform and your new daggy school shoes.”
Ah! those daggy shoes. They look so stupid, everyone is going to roar with laughter at you. And last but not least you won’t even have any friends once they get a load of how ridiculously idiotic you look.
Great! At last you’ve got the ultimate screaming horrors — the back-to-school blues. That sounds familiar! (Of course, they are familiar coz you hear those screams every year, haunting you every hour). It’s the wretched feeling that oooooozes out of you like sap from a doomed tree in a forest fire. The feeling that hijacks your sweet, cute and happy smile, plunging you into a pool of misery.
The misery usually comes the week before you’re due back at school. It builds like a wave gaining momentum day by day until it finally breaks, hurling you and your embarrassing uniform and those daggy school cases through the school gates. But that week before you return to the world of the classroom full of misery, needn’t be a doomsday. It’s important to maintain the happy vibe and make the last week of holidays fun, in order to begin school once again with the right attitude. So check out some fun recipes.
Cardboard box fun
Go to your local shops and ask the shopkeepers if they have any spare cardboard boxes (tip: the best boxes come from shops selling refrigerators, washing machines, etc.). Having stopped off to buy heavy duty tape, you are now ready to build a cardboard wonderland in your own backyard (but please don’t spoil your mum’s favourite plants and flowers, otherwise you know what will happen or should I explain? I don’t think it needs any explanation). Linking the boxes together with the tape, you can make a giant tunnel or a freaky dark cave. Cut through the walls of each box so you have one continuous cardboard corridor (get your older siblings or even mum or dad to help you with the cutting). To make your tunnel or cave even more interesting you can draw pictures on the walls or even line them with old branches and leaves (wow! It’ll look so great and real that even a bear would sleep in there). You can even make a cave or a tunnel home by putting small cushions and bed sheet as seating arrangement and you can place a lamp on one side to light up the cave and tunnel. It’ll be fun. You can even cut out some windows.
Inner tubes
Now head towards your local tyre retailer and ask them if they have any old inner tubes. Tubes from tractors and big trucks are the best. Pump these up and they become giant donuts of fun. You can call at least five of your friends for a jumping competition. The more the merrier, there’s more bounce per ounce but please be careful where you jump. Don’t plunge off a cliff, and look out for that feeeeeeeeence!
Backyard fete
Now that you have your bouncy inner tubes and your cardboard wonderland, why not throw a fete for all your friends? You can charge them for a bounce or a run through the wonderland. Any money you make, you could donate to a charity and help kids who aren’t having as much fun as you. To make your fete more interesting, make some juice, bake some cakes and biscuits and sell these too. (You can request your dearest mum to help you with that, with some buttering of course.)
Garage sale
A great way to make a bit of cash and please mum and dad at the same time is to hold a garage sale. Parents are pleased when you help them get rid of all that clutter that’s been growing like an ugly monster in the garage or the backyard. But make sure you only sell what your family wants to get rid of.
You don’t want your big brother threatening to kill you coz you flogged his surfboard. And viola! There’s your scary sister screaming right on to your head “Where’s my George Michael and Bros albums?”
Change your hairstyle
Okay! so your mum has been doing your hair for what feels like centuries. Now it’s time for you to cut loose and wear your hair just how you feel comfortable. Make sure you don’t use scissors otherwise you’ll be left with hardly any hair on your head.
So these are some fun recipes. Do try them. I am sure it’ll return your sweet and cute smile. I hope that the last week of holidays will be a lot of fun for all. Bye for now.
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