What FULFILLING thing can I do this summer?

Question

I am a teenager and I want to have one EPIC SUMMER! However, unlike most of my peers, I don't want to sit around and watch TV all day. I want to do stuff that is memerable. Unfortunatly, I am not old enought to get a job, so that is not an option please help.

Answer 1

The summer when I was 13 I wrote down a fifty item list of things I wanted to do before I died. It was a fantastic summer!!! Though I only did ten things on the list!

I'm still working on it though... it has pushed me to dare to make my wildest dreams to come true and most of them have.

Everytime I read the list I remember the stuff I did... and so you can!!! Take pictures of you doing your dreams! Sky is the limit!

Answer 2

Make your summer's motto: Make a difference!

Find something that you are passionate about, like animals, the elderly, disabled and volunteer at a shelter, nursing home, etc.

Help an older neighbor all summer long with things like yard work, grocery shopping, etc.

Volunteer at Big Brothers and Sisters. Take a less fortunate child shopping for a cute outfit, to a pool or a theme park of their choice.

Read a novel (non-fiction) about a subject that interests you or you want to know more about.

Go visit a local historical sport in your town. Learn more about the place you call home and surprise your friends, teachers and parents alike.

Here's a fun one that I did the summer I turned 16. Purchase a pedometer and log how many miles you walk that summer, each day. Calculate at the end of the summer and look on a map to see where all you could have traveled to.

Go through your room, and house (with parents ok) and clear out all the things you don't need, use or want anymore. Coordinate a large yard sale. Give portions of sales to various charities you feel strongly about. Anything not sold but salvageable, section up and donate to places like Salvation Army and Goodwill.

Log on to the computer and go to Rachel Ray's website and look up the Yum-o project, having bake sales to raise money for hungry children around the United States.

Lastly whatever you decide to do or not do, video-cam it and make a documentary of your summer. Also take lots of picture and scrapbook it. So whenever someone asks you what you did that summer you can always look back and smile.

Hope this helps you out and was close to the idea of what you were asking for! have a great summer! Remember..make a difference

Answer 3

Where do you live? That will have a lot to do with how you spend your summer. I applaud the many recomendations that you do volunteer work, but that is not really the greatest way to spend your summer. During the school year you can dedicate a couple of days a week to a group that depends on volunteers. You need to do something you will look back on and think,"wow" We can't all be Baby in Dirty Dancing, but we can explore our potential. Are you athletic? Join a swin/merathon/golf/tennis team or be a caddy at the local golf course. Are you an artist? There are programs at the library, art schools, galleries. Daramatic? Join a drama group, even if you have to paint the scenery. Musical? Sign up for lessons, study groups. Like to read? Guest authors tour the country all the time. Try your local bookstore. The possibilities are endless. Look around and then Go For It.!
Have a great life!

Answer 4

Do your grandparents live nearby? If so, offer to visit them once a week or so, to help around the house and yard. As an alternative, are there grandparent types in your neighborhood you could befriend?

When I was about your age I did just that for several summers. Beside just helping them, I learned gardening, cooking, baking, and how to do all sorts of things from my grandma. Grandpa taught me how to make and repair things in the basement and around the house. Since they both liked doing arts and crafts things, they taught me how to do them as well. When he started his own business, grandpa even asked me to work with him. (Today I work in a related field, and I give full credit to grandpa for giving me a start.)

Although my grandparents are long gone, they live on in my memories from those summers. Many of the things I am able to do I first learned from my grandma and grandpa. The last time I was baking chocolate chip cookies, when they looked and smelled exactly like grandma's, I knew I had done everything just right. I was back in grandma's kitchen for a little while. Talk about a powerful memory.

DiorDior made a very good suggestion too, about volunteering. Giving of yourself to put a smile on someone else's face can give you a wonderful feeling and plenty of memories. Ask your school counselor, local volunteer center, or at church about opportunities for teens. Sometimes you have to be persistant and go back again and again, but it can be worth it.

What are some things that interest you? Go to the library and find some books so you can learn more about those things. Teach yourself how to do something you've never tried before.

Have a great summer!

Answer 5

Be a camp counselor. Volunteer to help the needy or get involved in some sort of community project like Habitat for Humanities.

Community colleges often have courses that you can take - sort of enrichment type courses - that are fun and challenging.

Join a club. Start a garden. Find something you enjoy doing and see if there is an outlet for it in your community.

Hope this is the sort of fulfillment you meant!

Have a great summer.

Answer 6

You can try volunteering. Work or tutor disadvantaged kids, or volunteer to walk small dogs or at an animal shelter.

Offer to help around the house or home for extra allowance.
Do the dishes, vacuum, help with yard work, mow the lawn, or learn how to.

Go out with your friends to a theme park or carnival.
Go to the mall, or to the park, and enjoy the weather!
Ask your parents to take you to a theme park where they have animals or aquatic wildlife. Go to the museum, art gallery, or a concert.
Have something big to do every week, so you can look forward to it.

Or you could clean your room, and donate stuff you don't want anymore to charity or have a garage sale.

Answer 7

have some goals set and try to reach them.


If you like animals, Volunteer at an animal shelter. they are always looking for teens (esp. ones who arent old enough to work) to volunteer to come and play with the animals.

Are you atheletic, maybe train for a triathalon. They have much shorter versions of triathalons for all ages. Just research on the internet.

Book worm? Maybe try and read some literary classics like Huck Finn, Pride and Prejudice, Animal Farm, The Great Gatsby ect. ect.

Go to water/ amusement park
Paint your room

Id agree, if you sit around all summer, it will fly by and by the time school comes around and people ask what u did over the summer and you have nothing but "watched tv" you'll feel like u wasted it.

Answer 8

even though you can not work doesn't mean you can't volunteer. if you volunteer at a local charity or food pantry this will make you look awesome when you do want to get a job. maybe you will meet other cool volunteers and have fun helping people. you could also join a community club or go to a summer recreation program. I know in my town they have free classes at the town library. one summer i took drawing and painting, im not artistic at all but i had fun and met cute boys from other local schools. and deffinatly do lots of stuff outside!

Answer 9

Go camping, traveling, skydiving (my fav), learn a language, learn something else that interrests you, take up a hobby, play a summer sport, go hiking, hang out with friends, challenge your fear of something (heights, the dark, creepy crawlies) You may not be too old to volunteer somewhere? Get into absolute fabulous shape so you can go back to school next year and everyone will be wondering what in the world you did. (that's if your not already in shape) Learn to drive (if you dont already know)

I lean towards the hobby section, trust me, you wont have so much leisure time when you get older... so enjoy it now.

Answer 10

have you thought about volunteering your time? there are tons of organizations that can use extra hands and i'm sure it would make you feel good to be helping people who are less fortunate than you. you could volunteer at a soup kitchen or even unloading food at a soup kitchen. or volunteer your time at a retirement home to spend time with some of the residents there.
good luck on having a meaningful summer, i wish i had been so motivated when i was your age... i chose t.v.