Jetlag

                The experience is unique enough to get its own entry. Seven hours of time difference or more takes its toll on everyone’s body when they go from university to home, and back. Traveling is never the same after you take a twelve or thirteen-hour flight with twin girls crying in the seat next to you the whole way. A short description of the jetlag that plagues all students studying far from home ensues.

                Headaches. You have never had one until you are up at 3 am, hungry since it is lunchtime back home, and wondering how you made it to your dorm room after so many layovers and connections. You start to ponder just how big a sacrifice you are undertaking for your education, and casually pass time until about 7 am when the dining hall opens and you can get some breakfast. This is when food nostalgia takes over, as your senses are used to a certain taste and you need time to acclimate to American food once again. So many things whirl in your head, bringing gifts for the people back home, a taste of home for your new friends, school, love life, traveling again, and it is still 7:10 am. Somehow, your day is still just beginning, and you need to make it through the next 12 hours before you can go to bed at an unreasonably early time for about three hours.

                Fast forward a week, and you are going to bed at 9 pm and sleeping six hours, but things are looking up. Eventually, you will regain some semblance of a normal sleep pattern but not before you sleep through half your classes the first fifth of the quarter. You will get comments about how tired you look, and you will ignore those comments. Otherwise, you will end up snapping at someone because the mush in your head that is trying to reform into a brain is not working right.

Mustapha Jechi - 1st year UG student; major: Mechanical Engineering

Comments

[Brandyjo21]

This sounds like a perfect story to share at the DU StoryCorps event coming up in May! Here is the information I'd like to share with you from my leadership academy friends:

DU StoryCorps: Making Connections Through Story Telling

Theme: “Fish Out of Water”
Como Pez Fuera del Agua, سمكة خارج الماء
如鱼离水 Un poisson hors de l'eau

Date: Tuesday, May 10th, 2016
Time: 4:30-6:30pm
Location: Margery Reed Hall, Reiman Theater

Join the DU Leadership Academy in launching the inaugural storytelling event for students, faculty and staff!
Do you have a story to share!? Come experience the Power of Storytelling to build community by cultivating empathy, compassion and awareness.

Prepare a five-minute true story about the time you were a “Fish Out of Water.” ...a time when you felt totally out of your element, whether you felt like an outsider, you were a foreigner traveling in a new country, a rookie on the new job, or in some other unfamiliar and uncomfortable situation.

Submit your story pitch via Qualtrics no later than midnight on April 27th.
https://udenver.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4ZuxPdosa0PV2v3

8 storytellers will be selected from story submissions to share their story on Tuesday, May 10th.

For more information, email carolyn.sommers@du.edu

Join us May 10th! To attend, RSVP is requested, though not required. Free and open to all.
https://udenver.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_428R9AtQycJymyx

[payroll software]

Give body much needed time to rest.
Sleep well and all will be alright.

[Martin]

Thank you so much for your work. I really appreciate it.

[Geospatial &Space Technology]

Appreciated.