My Hobby: basketball

I have many hobbies, and basketball is one of the hobbies I have. Basketball is sport that requires personal skill, team work and speed. Basketball is a great sport, I enjoy every time when I crossover the opponent, and then I score. Team work is one of the important key for play basketball. Good basketball team always doing some great team work. It is wonderful when we do some fake move to make the opponent jump, and then we will pass the ball to our teammate. I like play basketball outside with my friend, we always have a good time together. Basketball makes me feel great and satisfy.

I usually play ping pong before, but ping pong is a game that you can only play with one person or you can play two on two. My uncle is the one who inspired me plays basketball. He likes basketball very much, even though he can’t play well. He always invites people to play basketball with him every weekend. Basketball makes us more trust each other and make our friendship become stronger.

Basketball is like my friend. Without basketball, I will lose a lot of fun in my life. Playing basketball is like studying for the test, if you don't play hard, your may lose the game. Basketball mean a lot to me, I feel ease and relax when I playing basketball with my friend. There are not limit for basketball game, you can do anything you can to win the game except fault. Sometime, we lose game, we will discuss our weakness together, because we all believe the next time we can play better.

My hobby

My hobby is read the books and when I get some time I like to read any kind, of books and I like to read about the magazines, too.
Inspired of this is my mother because when I start reading she was the one who help me to read and she teaches me the (ABC) because my mother likes me to be the best and she always read me some books .This hobby builds me because now can read anything that I want and it’s a good relationship with my mother.

I get out this hobby when I go to the library I like to pick up the books and I like to read and that influence my life because now my English is improving and that’s my hobby and I like to read so many books and my mother always told me as long you read you are going to be a good reader.

My favorite book to read is of mice and Men.

My best book that I read was when I was in high school and that book named is Of Mice and men and it talks about the great Depression in 1930s to 19470s and its really nice book and it has a lot of stories and I like that book a lot sometimes it makes you to cry and sometimes it makes you to laugh and at that book it talks about how expensive was everything and there’s to men’s who want to own their own farm and that time everyone was farmer.

A wise man once said be the seed of change in this world, and when asked how could someone be the seed of change he said the greatest thing a mankind could do is get knowledge the only way you can get knowledge is by reading. So I believe that am the seed of change and by the day am growing to be a big plant full of knowledge.

My hobby

My favorite hobby is playing soccer. I was playing soccer since I was 6 years old. I always try to play soccer whenever I get time. Soccer is like my best friend. I enjoy every minute of it. My father inspired me playing soccer. He was a soccer player when he was young. I remember when he used to take me his games when I was little boy. He always told me that soccer is a healthy and fun sport. My dad says “Soccer will never walk you alone”.

When I am playing soccer I feel happy and unstoppable. I can run like a horse and mingle with the stars. That is the reason that make me easy to play better and faster. I play with team Elman. Sometimes we go out of states to challenge with other teams. I like to win every game, even if it is friendly games. I take it serious. This hobby means everything to me. I have been playing all my life. Soccer is something that I want pass through my kids.

Snapshot three

this is the kind of cookies i backed.

My favorite hobby has always been baking. I come from a generation of where all the women were and are great cooks/bakers. I started developing my love for baking when I was 12years old. I always liked making things my way I wanted to make every food the way it was pictured in my head, and I technically couldn’t do that with cooking because no matter how different someone cooks only the taste will be different but not the image. After finding out this I decided to try baking and that when I fell in love with it, the first thing I ever backed was cookies and they were in the shape of soccer balls because that was my favorite sport back then.

I remember that day like it was yesterday: my mother wasn’t home and I was bored so I went to the kitchen and started looking for ingredients for my invention, at the time I didn’t know what I wanted to bake but I knew I wanted to make something that would impress my parents . So I started going through my mom’s baking book and I didn’t find anything interesting so I decided to go on and make some cookies.

I got a bowl putted some flour in there and after that I added whatever that caught my eye that I thought smelled good or tasted sweet and before I knew it I had a bowl full of mixture that almost turned the flour color to purple. I grabbed a pan and cut the flour in to circle shapes and drew little lines through them to make them look like a soccer ball. Once they got out of the oven they were hard and very sweet and rough. I sat down laughing and I felt proud of what I did, later on that evening when m parents got home I showed them what I made and laughed very loud and my dad told me that those were the best cookies he ever ate. Since that day I’ve been baking, I like baking for many reasons but my biggest two reasons are, one I release my imagination and create whatever I want and the second one being I sell my cookies and cup cakes on summer and a lot of people buy them so that makes me feel good about myself. The time I make my best cookies are when am sad or angry because at that time I bake a lot and it helps me feel better.

Snap shot three.

My hobby is reading, specifically crime mystery books. No one really inspired me reading, I just knew by age of 10 that I like and spend most of my time reading. There are times when I used to think reading was more of an opposition than a hobby to me because I used to read on the bus, in doctor waiting area and while I eat. I even remember times when I used to get in trouble for reading because I would forget to do my homework or worse yet, wouldn’t study for my tests. But as I got older and as much as l love reading I start making time for it, so it won’t interfere with my other plans.

I love to read. It’s a hobby that relaxes me and encourages me to think. It takes me to places I have never been or will be. Reading is much a part of my life that I couldn’t quit even if tried. When I’m reading I see the world differently, that make me understand things more fully. I think reading became my hobby because every book I had to read has something to offer or learn from it. Reading the book Three Cups of Tea kindled my interstate in helping the once in need.

I read almost any mystery book I can get my hands on, but my favorite book of all is The Lovely Bones. It is a book about a teenage girl who has been murdered and raped by her neighbor. After she got killed, she is quickly taking to heaven where she watches how her death affects those around her. I also watched the movie but I didn’t like it as much as liked the book, because in the movie they left out most important parts of the story. You can say that is the reason why I don’t like reading the book first and then watching the movie. I like this book because it thought me that life is very short, so we should make the most of it.

Snapshot Three

(The Ohio State Bowling team in front of the arch)

Bowling is a sport where you roll a ball down the lane and you aim it for the ten pins. The ball comes in all different weights. I enjoy bowling so much that I started bowling for my high school bowling team then after I graduated I decided to try-out for The Ohio State bowling team.

I really don’t have anyone that inspired me to bowl. I thought that bowling was a fun sport and I thought it would help build my arm up for softball and it sure as heck did. When you bowl you have to have a steady arm and you cannot turn your wrist or the ball will not go the way you want it to. My coach in high school only changed a few things but when I got into college bowling the coach had to re teach me things that my high school coach had never taught me. This builds relationships between the players and the coach and each of the players.

What I get out of this hobby is a stronger friendship with other bowlers and also a place where I can take my anger out in a civil way. Throughout this year I have become closer with my teammates and made many good friends. Some of the people I bowl with I have bowled them when I was in high school.

There is this girl that is on the team that I have become very close with and we usually hang out all the time and talk constantly. When I first met her I thought she was the most annoying most know-it-all person I have ever met before then once the season started and we got to know each other more we became close friends and our families have even become closer friends.

Homework for Monday

Students, please read chapter 17 in Three Cups of Tea for Monday, and work with your partners to do research on your Presentation Project.

See you on Monday, and I'll give you back your drafts of Essay One then, and you can turn in Snapshot Three.

All best,

Mike Lohre