PEOPLES HOBBIES AND INTERESTS AT SLAS
BY TARO IKEDA
Students at Shanghai Livingston American School
(SLAS) have a variety of different hobbies and interests.
At this school, all students have different classes so they
could experience or explore new hobbies and interests.
In addition, there are students from all over the world
so students can learn new ideas and concepts from
them.
Sung Jun Kwon, a 11th grade student at SLAS said, “My
top 3 hobbies are to play music with my piano and bass,
and to take pictures.” Sung Jun is in a band with his
friends and performs in a concert once every 3 months.
He also added, “I became interested my hobbies when
I was about 8 years old, and music sounded familiar to
me. That’s why I started playing instruments.”
In this world there are different kinds of hobbies and
interests. There are collections, competitions, and
observation hobbies. For indoor collections, people
may collect action figures. These are action or character
figures, made of plastic or other materials and often
based on characters from a film, comic book, video
games, or television programs. A casual indoor hobby
for people is to cook food. Cooking is not just simply
making something we can eat, it is an art! The cooking
technology and care of preparing food for consumption
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is where the art lays. Interest in something that people
like to do is usually how a hobby develops. For example,
someone may watch volleyball practice and then join
the team to get better at it. This is an interest because
you liked the sport while watching it.
“My top 3 hobbies include playing musical instruments,
collecting sneakers, and cooking different foods,” said
Mr. Darrell Desales, the cooking teacher at SLAS. He also
added, “As for playing instruments, I usually practice at
home then I perform in front of an audience. I usually
check online for the latest trends and wait for the release
at stores. For cooking, I do it every day not because it is
my work but it is my passion. Sharing my knowledge
with my students is the reason why I love cooking the
most.”
Students at SLAS display interests in a wide range of
topics and themes. By having all kinds of hobbies, people
can exchange ideas with other people they meet. Thus,
finding new hobbies and interests can help us now and
later when we apply for college.