Hobbies: The Old & New

To find out more about students are doing with all their time during this time, we interviewed another student about what's been keeping him busy.

Part 1 - Old Hobbies

Q: We heard you’ve been camping lately, could you tell us about that?

A: I mean for me camping is something that I do really often, well I used to do really often since I’m a part of boy scouts and my troop goes out camping once a month or so. But after junior year hit, I didn’t really have the time to go camping. I think the last time I went was September or so. That was just like a really long time and I was missing the feeling of going camping, so I wanted to do that in my own backyard during this week. It’s something I’ve done before — over summer. It’s been a week in my backyard, I stopped yesterday cause school is starting again.

Q: What did your family think?

A: They were fine with it since I had already done it before. In boy scouts, we have this summer camp thing every year my troop does. It’s this week-long camping thing in the summer. My parents just treated that like I was just on a summer camp, camping in my backyard. They asked if I want to cook in my backyard with a stove, but that’s too much work.

Part 2 - New Hobbies

Q: What have you been up to since school closed?

A: Well I guess it’s been really nice since when at school there wasn’t a lot of time to relax and just focus on myself cause I was super stressed and really busy with school and volleyball. So after quarantine, I’ve been exercising every day, working out with the volleyball team and on my own. It’s really relaxing since I don’t need to fit that in with my schoolwork too; since during the school year, it’s been a struggle balancing my school work with athletics. There’s too much of both, but now that the school year has been slowed down a lot, I’ve been able to focus on exercising every day. Also, I’ve started learning how to play the ukelele and it’s something I’ve wanted to do for a really long time, but I’ve never got the chance to because of how busy school was and because of how overwhelmed I was by everything going on in my life. Now I’ve been able to take the time to focus on my own hobbies and stuff I want to do for a really long time. During this break, I’ve been able to clean my room since my room’s been really really messy, and it’s really nice cause now there’s nothing on the ground.

Q: How do you work out with your team?

A: We do it on zoom, cause we have a trainer coach, a coach that plans all our workouts and he just works out with us three times a week. At first, it was because our coach wanted us to stay fit in case we went back to school and our season continued, but I think our season’s done and we’re still doing it.