Lesson 22
Tell Us About Your Hobbies
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JOHN: What I like most, I suppose, is the fact that it's so unusual. I mean, when I tell people what I do,they just look at me usually as if I'm mad.Maybe I am, anyway what I do is this. I get up about a quarter past six every morning. I leave my wife in bed because she's not as mad as me - and I put my trunks on under under tracksuit and drive down to the park with my clothes in a case. It only takes about five minutes .because there's no traffic of course at that time in the morning. So, when I get there I leave the car in the car park and run round a bit.I usually run for about ten minutes till I'm nice and warm, then comes the interesting bit. I run over to the car,get my case and then over to the pool. I take my tracksuit off and -in I jump. It's pretty cold I can tell you especially in the middle of winter-but I do a coupte of quick lengths and then I climb out, get changed and drive home, I just get back in time for breakfast - and I normally feel I've earned it too. JACK: Well, it's very detailed work you see, but I find it very relaxing. It's strange I suppose that something like this where you have to concentrate a lot can be relaxing ing, but you see in my job I'm always making decisions and telling people what to do but I never actuplly see what I've done. This is completely different. You see, here I'm actually making something myself. I start with a kite, usually it's got all the basic materials in it. Then you have to cut out all the shapes from the wood and stick them together. When you've made the frame, the wings and the fuselage, that is, you cover them with special paper and paint. Of course if it's going to fly properly, everything has to be properly balanced, you know.. I must say really though. I think I enjoy actaually making them more than flying them. JANE: Well in a sense I suppose I do it to save money. I mean things are so incredibly .expensive in the shops nowadays days, aren't they? But that's not the only reason really No, the beautiful thing is that you can make what you want when you want-and in material you've chosen. I mean you don't have to depend on some paris designer to say what is fashionable. If you like an idea you see then of course you can copy it , but it gives you much more independence to do it yourself. I mean obviously it takes time , but I enjoy it , and with a sewing machine it doesn't take all that long to make even quite complicated things. And then finally you know that you've got something really unique. Especially if it's something you've designed yourself.
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