Rest and Recreation

Benefits of vacation

There are many benefits that taking a vacation bring.  These include:

• Better Physical Health
• More productivity
• Closer family relationships
• Newer perspectives
• Increased mental power
• Lower chance of burn out
• Improved mental health

How to get those same benefits each week - Sabbath

“Then He said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. So the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath”” (Mark 27-28).
“Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy” (Exodus 20:8).
“Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work…” (Exodus 20:9-10).

Sabbath means rest.
The Sabbath is a day to take time away from the world.  It's a time to spend with your family, worshiping our Creator.  It is the day in which we step back and enjoy the world that God has made for us.  God rested on the seventh day, after he created the world and the things in it.  He took time out to enjoy it.  Likewise, God wants us to take time and enjoy the world as He made it.

Benefits of Sabbath

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Additional info/resources

What is the Sabbath? Host Hal Holbrook takes you on an eye-opening journey through history to explore the seventh-day Sabbath. Discover how Sunday observance eventually trumped Saturday Sabbath-keeping in the early church, why this controversy is barely known, and the amazing unknown history behind this divine day! - See more at: http://www.sabbathtruth.com/free-resources/seventh-day-video-series

Sabbath Truth
http://www.sabbathtruth.com/free-resources/article-library/id/911/sabbath-is-a-day-of-rest-and-worship

English Journal questions: 

• What was your favorite vacation? 
• What was your most relaxing vacation? 
• How to do rest and recharge during the week? 
• How do you re-create yourself?

Vocabulary words:
Recreation - activity done for enjoyment when one is not working.
Sabbath -  A day of rest, fellowship and worship, the 7th day of the week.
Exile - the state of being barred from one's native country.

Keeping an English Journal

A great way to learn and improve your skills in English is to keep an English journal.  This can be any notebook.  In it, you should try to only write in English.  Write a little bit about your day every day and about your thoughts on your skills in English.  Create goals for yourself.  Writing your thoughts in the language you are learning is a wonderful way in which you can improve your skills.

Examples of things that you can write about in your English Journal include:

• What did you do today?
• What new words have you learned? (use those words in your writing).
• What are you thinking about?
• What is the best thing that happened today?
• What are you some places you would like to go?
• What are your goals and dreams?
• What do you want to improve in life?

We will be using the idea of the English Journal in our Friday Night Club.  We will give you ideas on things that you can write about.  This is an optional activity, but it is one that you may find helps you a lot.

To improve your language skills, try to write at least a small entry once a day in your journal.  It can be anything from a couple of sentences to as much as you want to say.  The more you do this, the more you will see your skills getting better.  Writing is a very important skill to have and it is a valuable skill as well.

So, if you get a chance, find a journal, or even staple together a few pieces of paper, and begin writing your thoughts in English.

We will be posting information about the topics that we talk about at Friday Night Club before each class.  We will have some things that you can write about on the website here.  Feel free to write your ideas down and share them in class.