Hobby is a favourite occupation of a person in his free time. I have many friends. They are very different and they have different kinds of hobbies. One of my friends, for example, likes to knit very much. In the evening she sits on the sofa andknits a beautiful pullover or a sweater. She also knits for her little sister, her mother and her friends. Another friend of mine spends all her time sewing things: skirts, blouses, dresses. She makes it nicely and she always looks good. One of my friends likes to make everything with his own hands. He can repair an iron, a radio-set or a taperecorder. I think it’s a very good hobby. Many children and grown-ups are very fond of collecting. Some people collect old coins, others collect postcards. As for me, my hobby is collecting stamps. Now I have 5 albums full of stamps, it is more than one thousand stamps. I like to sit at a table in the evening and arrange new stamps in the albums, or write in the names of the countries, or just look through them. Each stamp has a story to tell about distant countries and new people. I see pictures of people, birds and animals which I have never seen before. Kings and presidents pass before my eyes and I can follow the history of the whole nations. My hobby is not only wonderful but very useful, too.