How Ukrainians Spend The Time

This survey revealed some average activities Ukrainian people spend time on. I’ve asked 25 people including 5 pensioners over 60 years old and 4 children about 12 years old. The vast majority of interviewees are under-aged students of the Tavrida National University.

The main time-taking part of the day is sleep. Sleep takes an average person about 8 hours a day, which is approximately the third part of all time. The second popular way of spending time is watching television. On average, it takes about 3 to 4 hours a day to watch favourite TV shows and series. As pensioners have more spare time than anyone else, most of them spend about 5 to 6 hours a day watching the soap operas and other programs.

It’s startling that the vast majority or interviewed students spend at least 1 hour a day reading for pleasure. Anyway, about 45% do not consider reading as an important part of their weekly activity. Surprisingly, 88% of children under the age of 12 read more than their older companions. Moreover, 95% of pensioners prefer newspapers to book.

99% of interviewees generally get up about 6 o’clock usually to have enough time to eat in the morning and wrap their bag for school or university. Being a great thrill, most pensioners get up early daily, including weekends, whereas 95% of younger generation’s representatives usually sleep until 10 a.m.

The vast majority, 90% stay up late daily because of studying or communicating with friends via social networks. Most of students, 98% don’t eat in the morning before university or school. Pensioners, all of a sudden, eat just 2 times a day instead of recommended norm of 3-to-5 ingestion.

According to the held survey, most people spend about 33% of their time sleeping, watching TV takes 23%. 20% of all time is studying (intellectual work), which includes reading as a broadening-horizons activity. About 15% of time takes leisure, which is different with most of the pensioners, whom it takes about 20-25%. The rest part of time, about 10%, is covered by different less time-taking things, such as eating and cooking, for instance.

My survey

My survey revealed that people in the age of 15 to 25 have enough free time. Sleeping, educational, leisure and sport activities take up more than half the day. People in this age group spend 8 hours sleeping, 4 hours for education, leisure and sport activities.

Watching TV is the leisure activity that occupies the most of the time (3 hours per day), accounting for about half of leisure time, on average, for age 15 and over. Socializing, such as hanging out with friends (going to the cafes, cinemas, theaters and grooming) is the next most common leisure activity, accounting for nearly three-quarters of an hour per day.

There are a little group of people who spend 2 hours of their time on joining some new hobbies such as: doing clothes, dancing, photography, making jewelry and gardening.

On an average day, nearly everyone age 15 and over engaged in some sort of leisure activity, such as watching TV, socializing, chatting on the phone, and girls like gossiping for many hours, shopping, listening to music and cooking. Time spends on reading for personal interest, playing games and using a computer for leisure is what our people do on a weekend.

Surprisingly, very few of my respondents feel that they waste their time. Some of them think that chatting on the phone and watching TV is the way to waste time. Also, some very hard-working students wants to waste one day of their limited life, they devoted it to relaxing and doing nothing, reading and walking.

We spend our time in mindless activities, especially on weekend and when we are tired or even exhausted.

How I really spend my time

Time, it seems, is what we're all short of these days. Now I want to tell you how I really spend my time. As you know I am a student and studying takes most of my time. 

I come home an average at 2 or 3 o’clock. Then I usually eat, but sometimes I can go to bed. Eating takes me about 20 minutes. Then I begin to do my homework. An average it takes me about 6-7 hours. But I try to make small breaks. At this time, I can listen to music, chatting on the phone with my family, with my boyfriend or drinking tea with my flatmate. 

To tell the truth I'm not happy with the way I use my time. Unfortunately, I don't have much spare time, because I try to study very hard.  I really like English and I want to teach little pupils, therefore I always find time for preparing lessons and doing my homework. But I want to spend less time doing it.

If I have a little bit more free time, I will make some sports because dream about perfect body.  Also I want to go out more with my boyfriend because he will leave soon and we won't meet for a long time.

I wanna spend more tome with my family, especially with my mother, because I understand how much I love her. I enjoy her company very much. One more thing, I dream about dancing too. I'm really into  it, and I'm going to use my spare time for it.

How I really spend my time

Time, it seems, is what we are all short of these days. The world is moving faster and faster. We spend time in vain, but we do not have time for the really important things. As for me I do not completely happy how I use my time. As you know I am a first year student at the Department of Foreign Languages, Tavrida National University. My common day starts with getting up at 6 a.m. My lectures begin at 8 a.m. and finish at 2 p.m. It takes me 20 minutes to return to the hostel. Cooking and eating dinner takes me an hour. Further I let myself to relax in a half an hour. At this time I prefer listen to music or to take a nap, because it makes me more fresh and energetic. Then I do my homework, it takes me about 6 hours. Frankly speaking, I think that it is too much, but sometimes I have to do my tasks even longer. That is why I go to bed near midnight or later. I try to spend my weekend with my family. But probably the only thing I can afford on the weekends is to sleep a bit longer, but generally I also spend a whole day doing homework. In future I would like to do my tasks quicker and spend more time doing exercise and hanging out with my friends.

How I spend my time!

In today’s fast-moving world we have a lot of to do, so in my opinion time is by far what we’re all really short of these days.

As for me I’m not always happy how I use my time, I think I could spend it better. Basically almost all my time I spend doing my homework, for the same reason I use the Internet a lot. I also spend my time doing housework such as cleaning  floors , washing dishes  and vacuuming carpets , but it isn’t my mother’s requirement I do it because I just  love when the house clean. It’s a pity that I have   little spare time, if I have some I try to spend it usefully. I do physical activities such as cycling, jogging, skating and playing volleyball. As now it’s getting colder and colder I spend less and less time for sport and it’s also quite hard for me to get up at 05.30 and do some exercise.

   Unfortunately, I don’t always have enough time for my hobbies dancing and reading.  Frankly speaking, the other thing on which I’d like to spend my time is hanging out with my friends. We see each other only at the weekends or even rare as some of us study in others cities.

All in all, I think I’m a lucky one as I have no time to do nothing.

How I Really Spend My Time

Everybody has ever thought about the way they spend their time and how they could spend it better. The results of the recent researches amazed me and I decided to count out the approximate amount of time-wasting activity I do daily. I was shocked.

As a student of one of the most demanding department of the Tavrida National University, studying takes the vast majority of my time. Firstly, I spend at least five hours attentions lectures; secondly, I come home and do homework for the next day. It isn't easy, but I try to cope with the amount of new information I get every single day.
I'm broad-minded person, so that I have loads of interests and hobbies. Getting to know new information is the most important thing in my life - moreover, it's the age of globalization, so you need to know more than ever before - that's why I keep reading books, no matter how little time I have. I am also into cross-stitching a lot, but nowadays, I haven't got a couple of spare minutes to make a single cross. One of my biggest hobby is singing. I'm a big fan of Lara Fabian and Mariah Carey, so I have a classic music taste, and I put myself a target to be close to the vocals they produce. I'm not a splendid singer, but I can sing and enjoy it at least. Singing takes me much time.
I spend about 2 hours a day communicating with my friends and relatives. I prefer to hang out on fresh air, but at the moment I spend outside less time than I used to. That's why I have to manage with taking to the remote friends via "Skype" or else.
Enlisted above facts are important daily activities and they take me about 17 hours including sleep. The rest 7 hours are taken by the so-called time-wasters. For instant, the most common time-waster in the city is public transport. You spend roughly an hour en route to the university and back home. Personally, the incapacity to allocate time efficiently and occupying the blanks of time with unimportant activities such as preparing one more cup of tea, sitting and doing nothing and so on...
Notwithstanding, I absolutely enjoy the way I spend my time, so I would change nothing, because this defines my personality and I like it.

How I spend my time

My today’s work day compared to my school’s work day hasn’t changed very much. Since I have been student my alarm goes off at twenty to six, and my day starts. Studying takes most of my time. I come home an average at 3 o’clock and begin to prepare my homework at 4 o’clock. Doing homework takes from 4 to 6 hours. I don’t do it all the time, but sometimes it really takes all of my time. O course I digress by texting with my friends, chatting on the phone and using the Internet. I go to bed at 11 o’clock. My work doesn’t suit me. It is very boring and unhappy. All days are very similar. The same situation I had at school, but nevertheless I find out some time for handing out with my friends then. Studying at the university is more difficult than at school. Of course I want to spend less time doing homework, but I understand that now studies is one of the main points in my life, and my future depends from my today’s pains and work. Socialising makes the life of anyone more interesting and happy. And for me it is very important too. Unfortunately I can’t meet my friends every day and spend a lot of time with them. My friends also very busy. At the weekend we all meet together and have a good long talk.