Last year I ruined my summer vacation by bringing along a modern convenience: the iPad. Instead of 1 nature, I checked my email. Instead of paddling a small boat, I followed my Twitter feed (特讯). Instead of reading great novels, I stuck to reading four 2 each morning. And that was the problem: I was behaving 3 I were still in the office. My body was on vacation but my head wasn't.
So this year I made up my mind to try something 4 : getting away from the Internet. I knew it wouldn't be easy, since I'm bad at self-control. But I was determined. I started by 5 the iPad to my wife. Then , a little bit of luck: the cell phone signal at our house was 6 than in the past, meaning that I couldn't cheat. I was forced to carry out my plan. Largely cut off from e-mail, Twitter and my favorite newspaper websites, I had few ways to connect to the world except for the radio and how much radio can one listen to, really? I had no 7 but to do what I had planned to all along: read books.
This experience has had a 8 ending. With determination and the strong support of my wife, I won in my vacation struggle 9 the Internet, I 10 realized that it was I, not the iPad, that was the problem.
I knew I had won when 11 passed a Starbucks and my wife asked if I wanted to stop to use the Wi-Fi. "I don't need it," I said. 12 , as we return to post-vacation life, a harder test begins: Can I 13 when I'm back at work? And I don't plan to 14 my convenience completely. But I hope to resist the temptation (诱惑) to check my e-mail every five minutes, which often leads to following my Twitter replies.
A vacation is supposed to help you reset your 15 to become more productive (高效的). Here I hope this one worked.
