I want to switch houses for a full 24 hours for one school night at sometime through the first quarter. My plan is to switch houses with peter scarpato one night to see what life is like in someone elses shoes to further my understanding about other peoples lives.
Q1
This experience has been extremely eye opening. As some of my classmates may know peter loves to exaggerate. Through experience I have found out that most of these stories are true. Peters parents make him get up early and do task consisting of weeding, dishes, sorting the recycling, laundry, cleaning his room and homework on the weekends. I do one or two of these things at my house but it was surly an increase of work from my regular schedule. Peter’s parents are definitely harder on him than my parents are on me. My mom also does something that I took for granite all my life. My mom makes breakfast for me every morning, however peters parents do not. Breakfast at home is a life save, especially when I am running late for school. Peter definitely lives a harder life than I do in terms of physical work. Our lives are harder in different ways. Peter’s parents make him do more work. My parents make me do more in terms of athletics. I have athletic commitments almost everyday, sometimes 2 a day. The weirdest part of the whole experience was trying to fall asleep in someone else’s bed. Something about falling asleep in the same sport that someone else does every night didn’t feel right. It felt empty. The easiest way to describe how I felt about sleeping in peters bed was that it felt like peters bed knew that I was not him. The second weirdest part of the experience was waking up. It was startling, waking up in a place where you are familiar with, but not waking up there was interesting. It was odd and hard to explain.
