How I really spend my time

Time - this is what we often lack. Not all people are able to plan out their time properly.
As for me, most of my time I devote to studying and homeworks. My day starts at 6 am. Classes start at 8, sometimes later and end at 1 or 2 p.m. After a hard day at the university I need a little rest. I like to lie down on the couch listening to music, watch some series or chatting to my parents or friends on the phone. After a rest, I start doing my homework. This usually takes until midnight.
At the weekend I want to spend more time with my family. The day always goes differently, and in the evenings we usually watch some family film. On occasion, my friend pays a visit to me, because on the weekdays neither she nor I have time to meet.
Sometimes I'm not happy with the way I allocate my time, but I try to fix it and become more organized.

How we spend our time

My task was to conduct a survey about peoples` usual activities and find out what amount of time it takes. Results are the following:

 Sleeping. This takes most of the time. On average working people wake up at 6 a.m. and go to bed at 11 p.m. Students wake up at the same time and fall asleep a little later, about 12 p.m. On weekends everybody sleeps till 10-11 a.m and stay up to 12 p.m.

Work and studies. Toiling masses commonly start their working day at 9 a.m., have their lunch from 1 to 2 p.m and finish at 6 p.m. Students have to be present at the institute at 8 a.m and till 2 p.m their time is dedicated to acquiring new knowledge. Afterwards they usually come home and spend few hours making home-tasks.

Housework. Work about the house never ends. It may take from 2 to 4 hours a day, depending on the size of your flat or house and quantity of people and animals living there. Women work about the house everyday, and men barely help them.

Hobbies. This is very essential part of life. This may be active one – like sports, and may be calm one – like arts, books etc. Majority of my relatives adore sports and dedicate about 4 hours a week to fitness room.

Meals.  At least 3 hours a day are dedicated to cooking and about 2 hours a day are busy with the process of eating 

Leisure. Great deal of people who surround me belong to students. They like to spend their time in the cinema – about once – twice a week. Adults prefer visiting theaters. Once –twice in a month. TV is also in favor. People spend the evening near TVset, watching shows and films – this takes about 2 hours a day.

Phone. Everybody in modern society has a mobile phone. Usually people spend about 1-2 hours talking phone.

Internet. This is like a drug for people from 10 to 30-40 years old. Majority of us spend 4-5 hours a day in the web.

What do we do with our time?

My survey revealed that in Ukraine today as well as in the UK, people spend a third of their day sleeping and eating. It may seem much but it is only 8 hours - the time which a person ought to spend just sleeping. Working or studying, sleeping and surfing the Internet take up much more than half of the day.
On average the Ukrainians spend about 17 hours per week watching TV. However they are using more and more Internet – approximately 20 hours. Not surprisingly, older people use the Internet and watch TV less than the youth do. For example, only one out of four people aged 60 and over says he can use a computer while all the examined teenagers say they use computer every day.
During the week, 72% of adults are up by 7 am. 68% of students stay at university or at school at least till 3 pm and then come back home, do their leisure time activities and their homework. Adults spend much more time working that the youth studying. Two thirds of the examined people come back home later than 6 pm.
People generally eat between 6.30 and 7 am, at 1 pm and between 6 and 9 pm. By midnight, 90% of adults are asleep, while a quarter of teenagers prefer surfing the Internet or hanging out with their friends at that time.
At the weekend people get up later (65% after 9 am) and go to bed later. Small difference was revealed between adults and children. Adults spend twice as much time alone as children do.