[HPforGrownups] Re: British food.

[Jenett]

No: HPFGUIDX 31366

At 10:08 AM +0000 12/12/01, hulintay wrote:
>Therefore, I agree with the comment that "40-90 minutes of walking
>every day", although the students wouldn't be walking all the time.
>In other books, there are frequent mentions of the students hurrying
>to their next class because they were late, etc. Of course, this is
>ridiculous considering that Hogwarts is a school after all, and
>spending 1-2 hours travelling is absurd...

See, I don't consider it particularly absurd, because like I said, I 
*did* that for two years. It's no more absurd (and actually, I think 
less) than the fact I now spend at least an hour a day driving my 
commute to and from work. (It's never less than 50 minutes round 
trip, and depending on traffic and weather, sometimes much longer.) 
It was certainly a lot *healthier* for me to be doing that much 
walking.

(And, actually, though it was somewhat less well defined, I was often 
doing about the same amount of time walking from place to place in 
college, due to having friends who lived on the other side of campus, 
and preferring to eat meals with them in their dorm quite often. The 
dorms I lived in my last 3 years in college were about 10 minutes 
walk from the library, and about 15 from the dorm most of my friends 
lived in. Again, do that roundtrip journey just twice a day, and 
you're getting a respectable amount of exercise.)

And this was all in New England, so a number of months, not only was 
the walking happening, but it was happening in snow, ice, or 
precipitation. I'm not saying anyone was universally *cheerful* about 
it all the time, but we coped. And honestly, except when I was having 
asthma problems (I was diagnosed in college), I generally quite liked 
the walking - it gave me a chance to decompress between classes, to 
get a breath of fresh air so my brain would function better when I 
got into class again, and so on.

I found my first high school (conventional US one-building model, no 
going outside, no long distances) actually a lot harder to deal with, 
because there was very little time between classes, and you didn't 
really get much of a chance to change mental gears while walking.

-Jenett
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