Tequanza Pruitt
3/14/13
Enc 1100

Life without Television

When my family’s only television set went to the repair shop the other day, my parents, my sister, and I thought we would have a terrible week. How could we get through the long evenings in such a quiet house? What would it be like without all the shows to keep us company? We soon realized, though, that living without television for a while was a stroke of good fortune. It became easy for each of us to enjoy some activities alone, to complete some postponed chores, and spend rewarding time with each other and friends. First of all, with no television to compete for our time, we found plenty of hours for personal interests. We all read more that week than we had read during the six months before. I personally started a habit to go the library to check out book to read for some hours for I could kill sometime every day. Next, I read newspaper everyday not just reading some sports articles, but actually enjoying editorials and opinion articles. We each also enjoyed some hobbies we had ignored for ages. My father’s old activity for worker returned, and my mother spent some time practicing some old cooking recipes. We love to play some kickball because I family had grown up play this sport every week we go to a park to play kickball that what my family love to do cause this the sports we don’t be fight over dumb thing and arguing over silly thing. In addition, my sister and I both stopped procrastinating with our homework. We both planned a homework schedule. Instead of watching television for the whole afternoon, as we used to do, my sister and I spent two hours every day doing homework in advance. Afterwards, I deciding that we have a homework group section for everybody to understand that homework because I teacher don’t go over the homework in more detail so we go over the homework we spent time doing the homework for everybody know how to do it. Second, we did chores that had been hanging over our heads for too long. There were many jobs around the house that had needed attention for some time. My father somehow managed to replace seven light bulbs from and