time

I chose to talk about time, and the way time affects our culture differently. In America we always are on a "time table." We need to be everywhere on time. In many other cultures this does not exist. Time effects us differently in different situations. My example that I am going use is when I went to ISU a couple weeks ago to visit a friend. She was on a very different "time table" than my friend Katie and I were on. She finished class around 4pm and then we went back to her dorm to hang. Then a couple hours late we decided to eat dinner. This is different than at home because when you're home your parents make dinner and you eat whenever it is ready. Since college students can eat whenever they want, whatever they want, this is probably where the freshman 15 comes from. Also when nighttime came along, we didn't start to get ready until 9. Usually at home we're out because we have to be home by curfew, but in college you don't have a curfew. That was definitely different for us. Also since we didn't leave til around 10 we didn't come back to the dorms til way late, which is something we could NEVER do if we were at home. Being at college is almost like being in another country becuase everything functions so differently.

(by the way sorry this was sooo late Sal!)