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Friday, January 26, 2007
Thirteen Facts and Tips about Jet Lag
- Jet
lag is a temporary disruption of the body's normal biological rhythms
after high-speed air travel through several time zones.
- Symptoms
besides exhaustion and insomnia include disorientation, swollen hands and
feet, headaches, nausea and lightheadedness.
- The
older you are, the more intensely you feel the effects of jet lag. I’m feeling rather old right now.
- The
effects of jet lag are worse when flying west to east than east to
west. Guess which direction we
flew.
- Don’t
depart exhausted. I did because our
Thursday flight was cancelled and I did not sleep well that night.
- Drink
lots of water on the plane. I drank coke. Huge mistake. Did you know that you can go to the back
of the plane and get something to drink at any time? You don’t have to wait for the flight
attendants to come to you. You
might get fussed at if the fasten seat belt sign is on.
- Set
your watch to your new destination.
I did this and it does help mentally but not physically.
- Sleep
on the plane as soon as possible. I
only slept for the last 20 minutes of our third flight.
- Choose
a window seat if you want to sleep.
That way people will not have to jump over you when they want to
get out and you won’t be bumped by every person passing by.
- Walk
around when you can. Do light
stretching exercises while seated. Of course, if you choose a window seat,
you may also have to do some jumping.
- When
you reach your destination, start eating and sleeping according to the new
time zone. Yeah right. If I could sleep according to the new
time zone, I wouldn’t have jet lag, would I?
- Get as
much light as possible. Natural
sunlight is best. We did take a
short walk our first couple of days here.
Now it’s cloudy and rainy.
- Time
heals all wounds, including jet lag.
It takes at least one day for every time zone crossed to recover
from jet lag. I slept through the night last night for the first time in a
week. We only crossed 8 time zones
so I hope I’ll be back to normal soon!
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Thursday, January 11, 2007
Books on our Read Aloud List
I have not kept a record in the past of our Read Alouds but that is something I want to do this year. Currently we are reading #1. Here is a list of books I would like to read this year, not necessarily in order. - The Tales of Winnie-the-Pooh
- Flag of our Fathers
- The Secret Garden
- A Little Princess
- The Jungle Book
- Tom Sawyer
- The Yearling
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
- Gulliver’s Travels
- Mathematicians are People, Too
- King Arthur and the Round Table
- Number the Stars
- Trumpeter of Krakow
Please tell me your favorites!
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Thursday, January 11, 2007
Hello
Hello! This is Karen W from Homeschool blogger. I thought I would try blogging here! We leave for Romania next Thursday so I know I'll be busy the next few days. Too busy to blog? Probably not! If you have no clue as to why we are going to Romania, you can read my other blog or just stick around here and I'll fill you in on all the details. We don't live a normal life but then again, who was it that said, "Normal is just a setting on my dryer."?
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