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.

【紅霞譯文】

        今天我又新添了一個愛好，其實不是本人從來沒有幹過的事情，而是直到現在我才真正熱衷起來，它就是……摺紙。

        我之所以愛上摺紙，完全因為賓州光華中文學校夏令營開設的摺紙班，從學做吹氣紙球那一刻開始，與我以前知道多少無關。當時，我眼見朋友凱文不用漿糊或膠帶就能疊好一個紙骰子，於是我趕緊照貓畫虎向他學習，他什麼都疊得出來，折紙速度之快令我望塵莫及。但你知道嗎？當我低下頭來，同時看到了自己手中業已成形的立方體。就這樣，摺紙一躍榮登我業餘愛好排名榜。

        在此之前，我一直以為摺紙沒勁﹔然而，自從真正鑑賞自己手工技藝之後，我發現摺紙並非只是把紙片彎來疊去。