OUR INTERESTS - class project

COOKING

Hrisi

Cooking

I started cooking when I was ten years old. I don’t cook alone - I cook with my mom. My mother taught me how to cook. She taught me how to make spaghetti, because that is my favorite food.

Spaghetti Bolognese - traditional recipe

You need the following ingredients:

- 1 medium onion

- 1 carrot

- garlic

- oregano

- tomato sauce

- beef

- oil

- cheese

- 1 teaspoon of salt

You have to chop the onion and the carrot. Mix the onion, carrot, salt and beef with tomato sauce. You have to add the minced garlic too. Cook until the meat is brown. It will take a few minutes. After that you have to boil the spaghetti and add sauce. In the end you have to add cheese, oregano and basil.

Mila Nasteva

Cooking

Around 2 years ago I made my first omelette. It was shaped like a seashell. I like to make omelettes for myself or my mother when we don’t have any food in the fridge. Omelettes can be a great after-school snack, so here is how to make one.

Omelette with vegetables and fried sausages

You will need:

3 or 4 eggs
Half a red onion
1 sweet green pepper
1 or 2 carrots
Green salad
3 normal-sized sausages
Oil
1 bowl
1 pan with non-sticky surface
1 spatula
1 spoon
1 cutting board
1 knife
Seasoning (optional)

How to make it:

Grab your eggs and crack them in the bowl. Take your cutting board and your knife and get them ready. Wash your onion and pepper, then cut them in small pieces. Put them in the bowl with the eggs (if you want, don’t put all of it).

Mix the vegetables with the eggs, then add some seasoning in the mix and let it sit for a bit. Put some oil in the pan and heat it up. Carefully put the mix in the pan and flip it from time to time. When it’s done, you can put it on a plate. Throw the sausages in the pan and put some sauce (soy sauce for example) and wait a couple of minutes, flipping from time to time. When they are done, put them on the plate with the omelette. Wash the carrots and the salad and cut them if you want. Put them on the plate and there you go! That’s how you make a delicious omelette!

Food

I started cooking with my grandma when I was little. She taught me everything. I really enjoy cooking with her. Sometimes I cook with my dad.

You should try this recipe for chicken breasts. First you have to buy the things that you need for the recipe. You will need about 400 g. of chicken breasts, soy sauce, honey and butter. First, cut it into small pieces. Get a frying pan, put it on the stove and put butter in it. Put the meat in the frying pan. Wait until the meat starts looking white and then add the soy sauce and the honey. It will be ready in 10-20 minutes. When it is, you just put it on a plate and enjoy it.

Martin

Sports

My interest - football, my hero - Dries Mertens

I really like football. I play at school, about twice a week. I relax when I play it and when I watch it. My favorite team is Napoli and my favorite player is Dries Mertens. I like the team because of the type of players that play in it. What I like about Mertens is his football technique and the heart he has when he plays. His celebration when he scores is also very original and fun and every Napoli fan likes it. Mertens comes from Belgium and he is 34 years old. In his free time he gives pizzas to homeless people and visits children with cancer in hospitals. He also likes animals and takes care of sick dogs. I can say he is a person who will always help you.

Konstantin

I love to play sports in the summer. One of my favourites is tennis. I’m really good at it because I have played it every single summer for around 7-8 years. I think it’s a really interesting sport and more people should try it.

I also like riding a bike. I learned to ride a bike when I was 6. Usually me, my mom and dad cycle from our home to Borisov’s garden or to mall Paradise. It’s really fun.

Lora

I think doing sport is really good for our health.

I really like running and riding a bike. Every day after school I go outside and run around 6 kilometers. At weekends me and my friends sometimes go outside with our bikes and ride about 9 kilometers.

In the summer me and my family take part in a bike tour which is 180 kilometers long. We start in Bulgaria, then we ride to Greece and finally to Turkey, then back to Bulgaria. After that we usually take a really long break to relax.

I really enjoy skiing too. In the winter I go skiing around 13 times per season. It is so fun when I am with my friends and we are skiing together, because I can spend time with them, laugh at their jokes, play board or electronic games when we are at the hotel and have a great time together.

Matey S

Sport

I love doing sports and my favourite sport is fencing. I’ve been doing it for around 5 years and I’m really enjoying it.

You can do fencing with three weapons and they’re epee, saber and rapier. I’m doing it with an epee and I think it is the best because when you’re doing it with a saber it hurts more and it is too fast. Because of that it is hard to see the touch. When someone is with a rapier you don’t have many options where to make a touch. You can make it just on the body, but with epee you can make touch everywhere: the body, the legs, the arms, and even the mask.

I love fencing because thanks to it I met new friends and went to different countries just for a competition. Of course you need specific equipment and it is not cheap but that is not a problem, because the coach can give you something that you don’t have.

Did you know that fencing was invented in the 14th or 15th century? This is around 600 years ago!

I’m actually going to take part in a National championship at the Bulgarian seaside. It starts on a Tuesday and finishes on a Sunday. It is going to be near the sea but we won’t have time to swim in it.

I have really high hopes for it, so I’m very excited.

Matey Yordanov

Sports

I love doing sports. It's also a healthy lifestyle. My favorite sport is football.

When I’m at school the boys don’t want me to play, because I’m a girl. When I was little we wanted to find a football club for girls, but we couldn’t, so I went to a boy’s football club. I was the only girl and the boys didn’t really play well with me.

Finally we found a NSA football club only for girls. I’m in the best team now! The trainer is great and so are the players!

I go there once a week, usually during the weekend. We are really happy with what we found.

I also go swimming twice a week. I love that, because it refreshes my brain and it's useful especially if I’ve got a test after swimming, so that I stop thinking about school for one hour. It really does help me to relax, but still I think I prefer football.

What is your favorite sport? Where and when do you do it?
Lucy

Sports

Hi, I'm Martin and I really like playing basketball. I started playing it with my mom when I was 7 years old. I play it mostly at school like 3 times a week. I like it because you can play it with your friends. It’s a little hard too. You have to try it. It’s easier to play on a basketball court. I think basketball is the most popular sport.

Martin

Hello, my name is Yana. I always have a lot of energy and I have to use it for something, so I do a lot of sports. In real life there are so many sports, maybe thousands, but actually I’m good at five of them. I’m a dancer, skater, swimmer, bike rider and football player. I don’t ride a bike really often, because sometimes it is too boring - you can only sit and ride, of course you can do tricks too, but my bike isn’t made for this. Skating is so fun in other ways. Doing tricks on a skateboard is really cool. But I won’t talk about skating, because it is not my favorite sport, maybe my second favourite. I can say a lot of things about swimming too because I swim about 3 times a week, but again it’s not my favorite. Football is a really fun game. There are a lot of people and usually a lot of bad things like injuries happen. That’s the reason I don't play this sport often.

It’s actually really sad that in school we can play only basketball and volleyball, because a lot of students don’t like these sports. Me neither. I can't do anything about this, but I just wanted to say that not every sport is my cup of tea.

I think that now you know what I will talk about. Dancing. My favorite thing in the whole world.

When I was 7, I went to a dance class. It was fun and easy for me, so I decided to dance. It was a dance sport class. I was having dance classes 4 times a week for 2 hours. And then three years later I went to another dance class. It was a hip hop class. For two years I did dance sport and hip hop. Then I stopped going to dance sport classes. And now I've been a hip hop dancer for 4 years.

Dancing is something that not everybody can understand. It’s something really special that makes you feel different. You can dance whatever you want to. There are a lot of styles that you can choose from. Locking, popping, vogue, waacking, house, hip hop and bboy. There are a lot of other styles like MJ (Michael Jackson), but they aren’t that important. I can say a lot about every style, so I will tell you something about them. My favorite styles are popping and house. Popping is the “Robo style” - you may think it’s easy, but it’s not. To do it well and correctly you have to train for about 5 years,

so your muscles will be able to pop right. There are a lot of slow motions too and a lot of waves (my favorite). House is such a cool style, but it’s one of the hardest. To be really good at it, you have to train for about 10 years. But people who can’t dance can’t imagine how hard it really is because it looks pretty easy. Locking is the funky style. You should always smile when you are doing it. You have to be really fast and do a lot of rolls. Vogue is a women's style, but it started because of the black gay boys. I know that it sounds really strange, but for me this style is hard and I don’t really like it. Waacking is another women’s style with too many hand movements - it’s one of the hardest. Hip hop is actually easier and I think you know how it looks, so I don’t have to describe it. Bboy is so cool. So hard, but so cool. There are a lot of somersaults.

It’s time to talk about freestyle. Freestyle isn’t a style like the others - it’s a bit different. You can dance whatever you want to. The only thing you should be focusing on is being in sync with the music. If you are out of sync, you aren’t dancing. Actually, you have music, but no steps. A lot of people must think that this is really easy, but it’s not. The best dancers in freestyle can catch all of the moments in any song. They usually practise for more than 10 years. Sometimes the music isn’t your type, but you still have to dance to it (if you are in a battle).

My best friends are dancers. All of them. We are always together (except for school because we go to different schools.) - like every Saturday and Sunday. We spend most of the time dancing, laughing and eating. It’s so good when you are with people that like the same thing as you. My best friend is Ali and she is one of the best. She lives close to me and we meet each other every day, usually for 5 hours. So I can say that with dancing you can make a lot of friends and meet friendly, fun people.

If you want to dance, you can try it. I know that not everybody will understand how cool it is and how free you can feel, but everybody can give it a chance. I really hope that you will try and maybe you will enjoy it.

Yana

Movies

My favourite movie is Free guy. The film is really interesting. The story of this movie is about a man who thinks he is in real life but he is actually in a video game. He does the same thing every day. In real life where they’re still creating the video game, the company is wondering why that man is in the game, can do anything he wants and why you cannot control him in the video game. Then the man finds out about his life, that he is not in real life and all that stuff that surrounds him is actually not real. What happens next is really interesting but you should watch the film so you can actually find out by yourself. In the main role is Ryan Reynolds who plays the free guy that I wrote about. I really recommend this movie and if you go to the cinema to watch it there, it is even better.

Lora

Movies

I love watching movies when I’m back from school and when my little brother goes to bed.

You can watch movies when you have finished work or school. It’s a great way to relax.

Some of my favorite movies are:

Nanny Mc Phee

It’s about these children who don't behave at all and their father finally finds Nanny Mc Phee who is a very good nanny. She teaches the children a lot of things).

Mary Poppins

This movie is similar to Nanny Mc Phee. The difference is that Mary Popins has a magic hand bag.

Harry Potter

The Harry Potter movies are about this boy who is a wizard with no parents and ends up in Hogwarts. There he meets two friends, Hermione and Ron.

Petya na moyata Petya

It’s about this 18-year-old girl who tries to do what Petya Dubarova did when she was her age.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

It's about a poor boy who hears about this chocolate factory but he could only enter if he had a golden ticket from a chocolate bar, but in the whole world there are only 5 tickets.

The BFG (The Big Friendly Giant)

It's about this girl who is an orphan and meets a friendly giant.

Cruella is about a girl with white and black hair who has trouble at school but when she grows up, she becomes a fashion designer.

There are also movies that aren’t really relaxing for most people, like horror movies or action movies. I don’t think they're good at helping you to relax, because lots of people get very stressed and sometimes they can't go to bed. Some of those movies are - Anabel, IT and Green Land.

Do you like watching movies? What kind are they? When do you prefer watching them? And do you prefer watching them alone or with company?

Lucy

Movies

I love watching movies. I can watch films my whole life. Usually I watch them alone. But I also like to watch films with my dad because he always makes the film funny with his jokes. I don’t like horror movies, because when I watch horror movies I can’t sleep for one month.

My favorite film is Spider-man: Far from Home - a story about how Peter Parker (Spider-man) is fighting a villian who pretends he is a superhero. My favourite character is MJ (Spider-man’s girlfriend) and maybe it’s strange but my favourite scene is when MJ and Peter kissed on the bridge. I think it's a very interesting movie and everyone should watch it.

I also like Clueless - the story is about a girl, Cher, and her life; Beauty and the Beast (a story about how one girl that goes to the beast’s castle where everything is alive and falls in love with him) and Iron Man 1 (a story about how a billionaire becomes a hero).

Iva

ART and TECHNOLOGY

Many people use technology and I’m one of them. I use it for everything.

If I want to draw something and I don’t know how, I just look on the internet and I find it. There are many modern tablets that you can draw on and I think that is easier and faster. If I can’t do my homework, I don’t search in a book, but I check the internet. There are many sites that can help with anything. There are many more kinds of technology, but the internet is an awesome example.

You can play games on a tablet, on a phone, on a PC, on different consoles like PS, Xbox and switch. I usually play games on my phone, my tablet or my PS. There are many different platforms that you can play on and I like that they are all amazing. Sometimes the game can help you with something. When I’m playing games I’m practicing my English because there aren’t many games in Bulgarian. The games make your imagination more creative.

Did you know that these days programming is one of the best jobs? When I grow up maybe I will be a programmer.

Many people think technology is bad because it only hurts our brains and eyes and we don’t focus on school, but I think that it is one of the best things in the world.

Matey Yordanov

In my free time I like to dance classical ballet or play the piano. I practise for 2 hours every day. I go to classes twice a week.

I enjoy these hobbies because I have fun.

When I was 3 years old, my family and I went to see an opera. During the intermission in the lobby, I started dancing and many people stood around me to watch me dancing.

A woman asked my grandmother where I went to ballet class and she said I didn't go to any ballet classes. In response, the woman told her that I was a natural talent.

After this incident, my mother enrolled me in a classical ballet class at the Aleko Konstantinov Community Centre under the direction of Katerina Angelova.

Then we found out that there were piano lessons and I asked to be enrolled. My piano teacher's name is Sofia Pishmanova.

Do you have hobbies that you like to do in your free time? If so, who are they? Why do you like them?

Rada

My hobby

My hobby is drawing. I've been drawing since I was a kid, and I really like it. Now when I’m 12, I draw when I have time and drawing really relaxes me. I draw a lot of things, and most of them I take from pinterest, because there are a lot of ideas out there. I draw buildings, sunsets, bodies, dragons, people. And when I draw, I like to listen to music. I love to draw with a pen and when I have a class that is not very important I draw in my notebook.

Krisi

My hobbies

Three of my favorite hobbies are: playing video games with friends, drawing and making videos for YouTube. Let’s start with why these are my favorites. The reasons are because they keep me calm or help me express my creativity. My favorite game is Minecraft. I don’t play it as much since school but when I am on holiday I play it a lot. I play it mostly with my school friends but sometimes with online people. I enjoy playing it because I express my creativity by building houses and doing many other things like: PvP, or mining for cool stuff. Drawing is another way to express my art skills, it's really fun drawing doodles or even sometimes art that you don’t spend so much time on, also another thing I love drawing is fanart and still life drawings. I usually draw my favorite content creators and flowers. I started drawing when I was very young. I learned by myself and from watching how others draw - this gave me more ideas for what I should focus on. And we have reached my final and coolest hobby for last, making and animating videos! This is one of my favorite hobbies just because I can show to the world how I feel or I just follow trends that are popular. I decided to start because I wanted to become a famous YouTuber like the people I am watching as my idols. I stay safe on the platform by not showing my face, where I live and this kind of stuff. All of this brings me so much joy and lots of fun experiences!

Lily

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