I have three good friends. We like sports very much. My favorite sport is basketball. I have three balls. I think playing basketball is interesting. Jim and Tim think it is boring to play basketball. Their favorite sport is soccer. They play soccer every afternoon. They have four balls. Mary is a nice girl. Her favorite sport is volleyball. She plays it very well. It’s relaxing for her to play volleyball. But she has only one ball. Sports are good for us.

My interest in cooking started when I was 11, partly thanks to my mother. She didn’t really like cooking and when she did cook, I didn’t like her food. Once I was watching something about cooking on TV and I thought I could do this, so I went to the bookstore and looked for the biggest cookbook I could find.

During a year, I had produced most of its recipes (食谱) and was ready for something more difficult. I wanted to create my own dishes (菜肴) and I started cooking for more people than just my family. To my surprise, my parents allowed me to build a test (实验) kitchen. I did much cooking to test my dishes in it and my skill improved quickly. Later, my mom and I set up a dinner club that had monthly activities inside my home. Now as a teen cook, I have also cooked in top-class restaurants around the country. I am not doing it for the money, but because I love cooking.

Now I know that when you stop caring if you’ll be famous or not, your dream will come to you.