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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, geographyand 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.
(Sở thích trong thời gian rảnh
Nói về sở thích của bạn trong thời gian miễn phí.
Sở thích của tôi là thu gom tem. Khi tôi vẫn chỉ là một đứa trẻ, mẹ tôi bắt đầu
thu thập cho tôi. Tất nhiên, cô không cho tôi chạm vào tem cho đến khi tôi đã đủ