Hobby in free time
Tell about your hobby in free time.
My hobby is stamp colleting. When I was still only a baby,
my mother began to collect for me. Of course, she did not
let me touch the stamps until I was old enough not to spoil
them. I remember that it was on my fifteenth birthday that
she first put them into my hands. They were in four fat
books, but since that time I have added three more, so
that now I have a bigger collection than any of my friends.
How do I get my stamps? I have never bought a single
one from a shop -- so my collection has really cost me
nothing. My father, who works in a big office, sometimes
brings me home stamps from many countries of the world.
And I have friends both here and in other lands who send
me stamps in return for ones which I send to them.
Now that I am working for my living, I do not have as much
time as before to spend on my stamps. But in the
evenings, what can be better than to sit down at a table
with my precious books, arranging new stamps in them,
writing in the names of countries, or, if I am too tired, only
looking through the stamps already in the books? Each
stamp has a story to tell me of far countries and strange
peoples. I see pictures of men and women, birds and
animals that I have never seen. Kings and presidents pass
before my eyes, and I can follow the history of nations -- I
can see Hitler's Germany spreading over Europe and then
suddenly breaking into pieces; Pakistan is born before my
eyes; countries rise and countries fall - and the whole time
I remain comfortably in my armchair at home.
But my stamp collection does not make me think only of
the past. Just as my mother collected for me, so I, too, am
collecting for my future child. What better way will there be
of interesting him in history, geography and languages,
and of making these subjects live for him instead of being
only things in school books? If I pass my hobby on to him,
he will bless me for it as I have blessed my mother for her
wise action.
