Hobbies!

              Hobbies are designed to help refresh and rejuvenate people. They have the wonderful effect of restoring a energy and a love for life and release stress. Hobbies are our getaway, we can escape from the world for a few hours. With the different options their are out there, I have come to love several different hobbies. To be somewhat short I'll only name three...Swimming, reading, and drawing/writing. These three things are what keep me loving life (well, and reading the Book Of Mormon and Praying and going to church, too.) and happy.

               Swimming I've found I've had a passion for it since I was little. In fact I often refer to myself as "half fish." When I was four or five at one of my first swimming lessons,  my teacher had shown me how to do something in the water and I was so excited I literally pushed off my teachers belly. My dad told me I didn't even realize, and I think I thought she was the cement wall. hahah! I was recently on a swim team for almost two years, but unfortunately it closed down. while I was swimming constantly I was very fit and always had tons of energy! Swimming fills me with a sense of calm and I always feel relaxed and ready to tackle the day and all my homework. 

   

               Reading is also a joy for me, but not as productive. I often use it to enter another wold and forget about my life and all the homework I left behind. Still, I love to read, but I have to be careful not to start a book when I have homework, or I won't get anything done. What I love best about reading (when I'm not procrastinating homework) is that with it I can become someone else and feel their joy's and sorrows to experience different world and 'see' incredible creatures that don't exist in our world.

               Last of all I love to draw and write. This is a new talent I'm developing and with any talent it takes time. This summer I'm planning on talking lessons from my Grandma Berry. I want to get to the point where when I draw things they appear completely life-like. Writing is also a new skill I'm working on. This semester I took creative writing and at the begging of the class my teacher asked us if we wanted to practice different kinds of writing or just chapter book writing/novels. We all wanted to learn how to write novels and she told us, that from the beginning of the class we will each write our own novel and at the end of the year we would each have our books published! Hobbies are so fun, and you can have hundreds of different kinds. they make life even more enjoyable. Go find more!