Hobbies

Hobbies are activities, which we do in our free time. There are so many types of hobbies one can choose for his or her own. Some hobbies are rather expensive, some are dangerous, some are very romantic, some are very time-consuming.

Typical men’s hobbies: sport, stamps, watching football, ice hockey, motorbikes, cars, computers, Internet…

Typical women’s hobbies: knitting, sawing, and going to galleries, theatres, cooking… …but now men and women have often same hobbies.

The most common hobbies in our country are these:

Collecting hobbies

We can collect a lot of kinds of thing – usually people collect the stamps, postcards or badges, some people collect unusual things as old cars, plain models, old motorbikes or other interesting things, which could be very expensive.

Art hobbies

Going to the theatre, concert, opera; play some instrument (the most popular instrument is guitar); painting, writing, sculpturing, poetry, photography. There are many clubs – e.g. amateur dramatics, singing, dancing…

Sports, games

Everybody do some sport activity – sport is healthy, keep us fit and keep our condition. Many students are members of a sports club – athletics, basketball, volleyball, swimming, handball and judo.

Family hobbies

For example travelling, mushrooming, many families have their cottages and people spend lots of time there (tending to their gardens – they grow fresh and healthy fruit and vegetables, nice flowers – cutting grass and repairing the old house).

The other rather popular hobby is watching TV or a video, play computer or video games, but it is not so useful for your eyes and your mind. Many people here like to spend their leisure time reading books, magazines and newspapers. Some people prefer music to reading. Going out can be very expensive now.

My own hobbies

One of my best hobby was always sport. When I was about eitht, I started with skating. Later I begin skiing and it is still one of my best hobby, but now there aren´t good conditions for doing it. During basic school I have known collective games and from that time I went with my friends play footbal, floorbal, basketbal or voleybal. Now I have so little free time. I cannot devote as much time to sports as I used to. Now I sometimes play floorbal, foofbal or volleyball, especially during our Physical Training Lessons. From time to time I go to the local swimming pool. My other hobbies are listening music and playing guitar.

Many students would like to make use of their hobbies in their future jobs, e.g. working with a computer etc. but it is not so easy. Hobbies are very important for everybody. A man would be very poor without a hobby and would not be satisfied.