2014-08-27

【Aiden in English】

        Today, I just acquired a broad new hobby. It's not like I haven't done it before, but just that today is the day I truly look into it. And so my new hobby is ...... Origami.

        It all started with an Origami class in GHCS Summer Camp, where I was taught how to make an inflatable paper ball. Not that I already knew how to. But then, I saw my friend Kevin make a paper dice without glue or tape. So I copied him. He wasn't stopping at anything. He folded the paper so fast that I wasn't processing anything either. But what did you know? I looked down and saw a cube forming in my hands too. And that's how Origami ended up on my hobby list.

        Previously, Origami seemed to be a boring challenge. After seeing what I could actually do with Origami, however, I found that it was much more than folding paper.

【红霞译文】

        今天我又新添了一个爱好，其实不是本人从来没有干过的事情，而是直到现在我才真正热衷起来，它就是……折纸。

        我之所以爱上折纸，完全因为宾州光华中文学校夏令营开设的折纸班，从学做吹气纸球那一刻开始，与我以前知道多少无关。当时，我眼见朋友凯文不用浆糊或胶带就能叠好一个纸骰子，于是我赶紧照猫画虎向他学习，他什么都叠得出来，折纸速度之快令我望尘莫及。但你知道吗？当我低下头来，同时看到了自己手中业已成形的立方体。就这样，折纸一跃荣登我业余爱好排名榜。

        在此之前，我一直以为折纸没劲﹔然而，自从真正鉴赏自己手工技艺之后，我发现折纸并非只是把纸片弯来叠去。