| HOBBIES |
| Well, aside from some sports (which is the subject of the next section...and a very short one at that...hint hint), I like a lot of things, and I barely know where to start. |
| I like trivia, that is, learning those odd tidbits of "useless" information. I've seen a lot of quiz shows in my time, and I really like playing Trivial Pursuit, even though I'm pretty bad at it! I also love the board game Scrabble. The English language can be pretty strange and complicated; how good are you at using it??? |
| One thing I do love is the outdoors; you might expect this of me given that I am from Vancouver. I love hiking one of the hundreds of trails in North and West Vancouver, doing something known as the Grouse Grind (a hike basically UP Grouse Mountain), and camping trips with friends...even with strangers whom, as my experience has shown me, become great friends by the end of the camp...camping has the ability to bond people together...I guess it's because you're with them 24/7. But if anything, camping fulfills a void in a society that is, today, getting far too fast-paced for its worth. Camping allows you to escape from the stresses of, well, literally, "reality", and contemplate on the more interesting and often more important issues in your life. I hope everyone gets the opportunity to spend time in outdoors |
| I also really like music. When it comes to listening, I like almost anything except rap and heavy metal. It's sometimes odd how my Winamp will go from one type of music to another completely different genre between nearly every song. As for playing instruments, I play the piano and flute; I would also very much like to learn to play the guitar. I don't take piano lessons anymore (though I did for a very long time). I thinking playing the piano purely for pleasure, and on my own terms, has made me love the instrument that much more. I'm still going to learn the guitar though. I hope. |
| One thing that I love to do is to explore...this sort of goes hand in hand with my love for the outdoors, but I am not afraid to extend that to urban settings. I have discovered countless places that I either have never been to or haven't been to since I was a little child, all in Vancouver, my hometown...and I've done it using only a bus pass and my feet. I've even had a chance to do this sort of thing in Durham, the town that Duke is located in. You learn so much more when you explore any place by foot. I love travelling with my family (to wherever we choose to go), and often for me, the goal of sightseeing is not merely to see all the things that *everyone else* goes to see, but to explore all those places that fewer people bother to go to. It's almost *always* more rewarding that way. |
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| So these are some of my hobbies...I hope that you are inspired by some of them, to at least try some of them for yourself. If I could say just one thing, it'd be this: Be yourself! Adopt a new hobby and learn to love it. You might even get good at it. |
| (Left) Camping and hiking might be grubby, but it's often a great challenge and usually super fun. (August 2002) |
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