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Now, teenagers all over the world are different. You can't classify them, group them or impound them in narrow stereotypes. They lead different lives, in different manners all over the world. And so, we thought it would be an interesting experiment to contrast and compare an average day in the lives of some very different people around the world.
We had students track a typical day in their lives. Here's what we got. But first we have a typical day for a teen- any teen- around the world
By Kuhuk Bhushan, India
Rrrrrrrrrring!!!!!!!! Let me sleep, for heavens sake!!!!!!!! (shuts alarm; sleeps for another 15 minutes) "Get up, you're getting late for school!" Aw, mom, its only (checks the time) WHAT? Already? (gets up, rushes to the bathroom and has a quick bath) "Hurry up or you'll miss the bus." (gobbles down breakfast, rushes to the bus stop, sees the bus turning round the corner) Oh God, I'm dead meat! (goes back home and asks dad to give a lift till the school, has to listen to a long sermon on the importance of punctuality throughout the car journey) Yes, dad..no, dad..Im sorry, dad, it wont happen again..yes, dad...no dad (reaches school just in time to hear the third and final bell go off) Yay! Just what I wanted. (has to take three rounds of the football field without stopping) Did.(gasps).they..(pants).have to(groans) make the field. (breathes deeply) so HUGE????? (reaches classroom 10 minutes later) "Class, today we're going to start trigonometry." (a chorus of groans in the background) Don't tell me I forgot my notebook at home. Come on now.Yes maam, I'm just taking it out. (fumbles frantically though the bag, is made to stand outside the class for not bringing the Maths notebook, the bell indicating the end of the period rings after a while) Finally! (rest of the day goes without more mishaps) Mom, I'm home. "Here honey, have your lunch." Rice and vegetables again? How does anybody eat this stuff? "Eat the food quickly without any more grumbling or else.. " (finishes food and goes to the room) Ah, peace at last. (lazes around for a while 'til instructed to do the days homework) Lets see, I have a whole Maths exercise to do, a Geography report to complete, and ...(sits down to do the work) Whew! Finally, Im done! (shouts) Mom, I'm going out to play. (comes back when it gets dark, watches television, plays computer games, gets bored by all of it) Dinner? It's nine already? (has dinner, goes to sleep later) Rrrrrrrrrring!!!!!!!! Let me sleep, for heavens sake!!
7:45am - Woken up by Mum. It's the holidays, let me sleep in! But I have to take my brother and sister to school 'coz they haven't finished
yet and Mum's going out to get tickets to the Good Charlotte concert for me.
8:00am - Breakfast out on our new deck. Yum.
8:20am - Set off to take the siblings to school. It's not that far, but we have to walk.
9:15am - Arrive home and realize I have nothing to do for the rest of the day. So I call up my friend Emily and ask her to come over. She
says sure, but she can't get there until the afternoon.
9:30am - Jump on the internet, check emails, chat to people, read my message boards, etc.
11:00am - Get bored with the internet. Grab a book and read out on our deck.
12:30pm - Shoot a few hoops out the front with our new basketball net.
12:45pm - My boyfriend calls and we have a good chat.
1:30pm - Get bored and jump on the internet again. Spend most of my time on a chat website talking to interesting people.
2:30pm - Crank up the music on my PC and shoot some hoops around outside. I steal my brother's scooter and scoot around the street on
that for a while.
3:45pm - Emily arrives (finally!) with her bass guitar. We grab something to eat and go up to my room to jam (I have an electric
guitar) We're both not really that good but we managed to both get the tabs to American Idiot by Green Day right. It sounded pretty cool.
5:10pm - Me and Em help Mum put up the Christmas lights out on the deck and muck around outside on the trampoline.
6:30pm - Eat dinner out on the deck. We have bacon and eggs which is technically supposed to be for breakfast but it's good for dinner too.
6:50pm - Finished dinner and sat out on the deck admiring our brilliant job of the Christmas lights. We talk for quite a while.
7:45pm - My friend Ryan from over the back fence comes to visit. The three of us hang out on the deck. Emily brings down her bass but
doesn't play much because she couldn't be bothered bringing down the amp.
9:00pm - Emily is picked up by her dad and sister. Me and Ryan continue talking. He got a new phone the other day so we were taking
movies of my dog Ruby with it.
10:30pm - Ryan goes home and I go and have a shower.
11:00pm - I'm in bed reading The Masters of Reality: The Gathering by Traci Harding. It's the 3rd book of a trilogy and it's about the size
of Encyclopedia Britannica. Really good book, thought.
11:30pm - Lights out on a great day!
Ways of life in India, by Aishwarya Jha Mathur
11.00 a.m. I'm woken up by my 'Huh'? 'Snorf'? What? It's 11 already?!
11.30 a.m. - I eat my breakfast, while watching tv. Drat the cable operators-every freakin' cartoon is in Hindi! What happened to freedom of television? (Okay, so it isn't in the Constitution yet, but I'm sure it will be soon
12.00 noon. -Mountains of homework to tackle, I'd rather go on the computer... Oops, I reckoned without my brother
12.30 p.m. - Well, I suppose I better go and take a shower, this certainly isn't going anywhere.
1.00 p.m. Sigh - I don't - Sigh - I don't have any more excuses, so I better get down Seriously, I'm measuring the heights of peaks sticking out from the piles.
2.00 p.m. - Now that was a good hour's work! I think I've done enough for the time being and I'm famished. Time for a spot of lunch!
2.30 p.m. - Ah, the joys of a leisurely, fulfilling lunch of butter chicken lachha paratha. No, I'm not done yet!
2.45 p.m. - Time for my favourite activity- <evil laugh>
4.30 p.m.- ' My pockets are empty and I've fulfilled my quota for the next two years, but it was worth it.
5.00 p.m.- My maths tutor arrives ... 'Sir, are you sure For right now?'
7.00 p.m. - Two hours of geometry I'm left with my head whirling between lines, angles and Steady, there! A glass of water, please!
7.30 p.m.-Finally! The computer's free! My preciousss...I put on my 'Do Not Disturb' expression and drown my sorrows in the Internet. Blog therapy, I call it.
8.00 p.m. -My friend calls up for the fourth time today and, for my own good, I talk to her
8.30 p.m. -She's still venting her spleen. The things I do in the name of friendship...
9.00 p.m.- All right, she hangs We're meeting tomorrow and I'm treating her to a movie to take her mind off her problems. Finally, I can proceed with my e-mail and chat!
9.30 p.m. -Oops! Mummy's calling me for dinner. 9.30 p.m.
9.45 p.m. -Well, I suppose dinner isn't so bad-chicken curry and rice. 9.45 p.m.
10.00 p.m. - Koffee With Karan! Who're his guests tonight?
11.00 p.m. - That was an interesting Sigh...now I can curl up with 'Stravaganza' and plunge into the adventures of Lucien and Arianna.
12.00 a.m.- Yawn! I can't keep my eyes open any longer. Good night! Zzzzz....
After reading these, we have decided that life is not all that different in the Typical Day of an average teenager!!! Friends, food, music, our computers, homework, family and time to relax are all important to us teenagers no matter where we live