Preparing For delays - address cards, books, card games, puzzles

 Do you have plans for delays? You might be delayed at a train or bus station or an airport. The time passes quicker, and you have less stress if you are prepared. For example with a book. 

Notebook and Diary

You can spend your time creating a diary in a notebook. Write numbers on the pages. List the numbers don the first page, the reverse, if necessary onto a second page. Or use the black inside cover, if it's blank. Note the journey  and sites to see in pencil on the way out. On the way back, tick the ones visited or write in pen. 

Caption your photos. Add names, dates, locations. Write on the edges of photos you have been given. Read leaflets, and entry tickets, and receipts from restaurants and hotels, to find dates and addresses, correct spellings

Learn Languages

Copy signs around the station or aiport. Copy words from brochures in your pockets, or free leaflets from tourism stands. Check maps on the internet.

Whilst delayed, you might make friends with others seating or standing nearby. After several hours together you may wish to exchange details of your phone number, business name or address. Have business cards in a handy pocket, always the same one. A place for everything and everything in its place. If you are running out of cards, ask them to photo graph your card and put your phone in their contacts list. Before leaving home, find your cards and check the address, phone number and email are up to date. You can delate neatly using Tippex, or cut off the bottom of the card, or score neatly with a ruler, or add lots of black hosontl oines so the crossing ou looks like part of a pattern.

If you have no cards, Cut your name off envelopes, letters addressed to you. 

Or print out your name and address multiple times on a cheet of A4 or A5 paper. You don't need to type it many times. Type it once and copy it once. then you have two. Copy that and from copyint twice you have four. Copy that a third time and you have 8, Copy that a fourth time and you have 16. 

To Cut A Neat Ege

Be sure to cut up neatly. You might like to make a faint pencil line. Cut with  guillotine or large scissors. If necessary, use a soft putty type eraser, or a rubber band, to rub away the pencil mark. Make sure you do not smudge any ink. 

Puzzles

You can buy books of puzzles.

 Or save your own.

 Or download optical illusions from Wikipedia. 

Or try to drawsomething similar. What's the secret? I would suggest 

1 Outline mountains and a river, or a tree, or a house with curtains. 

2 Then add faces. Or animals. 

3 Then link up with straight and cuvy darker lines to confuse the viewer.

 Keep a separate printout with the answers.

You can drwa other members of your family. Failing all else, draw yourself, using your obile to take a picture of yourself and copy it. You could try smiing, frowning, looking surprised, different expresssions.

Travel Tip

Pack notebooks, lined for keeping a diary, and unlined for drawing. Pack pencils and pens. Have a brightly coloured container in your larger tote bag so you can quickly get out and put back your diary or drawing materials.

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