My hobby is making
shoes. I've always liked designing things. I remember drawing clothes and
shoes when I was eight, and I made my first skirt aged nine. At eleven, I
started making shoes, and I now spend my free time doing that.
I
became interested in making shoes when my cousin told me about an online
shoe-making course that he was doing. I immediately wanted to do one too. Mum
booked(为……预约) me on
a four-day course at the I Can Make Shoes school in London to see if I
liked it, and then I did a ten-day course there in the summer holidays.
I loved the courses. On
the longer one, I made four pairs of shoes! I couldn't believe it. The
teachers were excellent. That's what was best about the classes. They
made us work really hard but they wanted all their students to have fun, too.
I've made about 15 pairs
of shoes now. At the moment I'm making a pair of training shoes using an old
pair of jeans, but I've used all kinds of different things before, from old
leather (皮革)handbags to old cotton
dresses!
Making shoes has changed
my plans for the future. I know now that I want to be a designer, but not a
shoe designer. I've decided I'll do home design. I've designed lots of shoes
and also some clothes, so I'd like to try something new.
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