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Quiting Volleyball
For me, I am someone who plays volleyball because I feel like in certain ways I am obligated to playing. If I were to quit volleyball I would literally do nothing with my life. This sport is very much time consuming and without it, I'd probably be a fat potato that does not extracurricular activities or hobbies what so ever. Hopefully, by the end of this project, I am able to find other things that I am interested in than just volleyball. When deciding what I wanted to do for my project I had no idea what to do. It felt like I had no life outside of volleyball and school. Volleyball was my hobby, but it was not something that I truly enjoyed doing. After going into conference with Mrs. Lee to brainstorm the different topics that I could do for my Quality Project. She asked questions that were supposed to provoke ideas. She would ask me, "What do you care about?" or "What do you do in your free time?" I told her how I play volleyball and how I …show more content…
The second step that I took was asking 25 of my peers about what their own hobbies were and how they learned to enjoy their hobby. I also interviewed my parents and had a conversation about how I felt about volleyball and finding out what their own hobbies were and how they came to enjoy what they do. They are two very important figures in my life and being able to know how they came to love their hobby could possibly be the same seed that I can use to plant and find my own hobby the way that they did. The third step that I took was researching the different steps I could take and where I could start when finding a hobby. The last step was reading a book with different hobby ideas and finding ones that I thought would interest me. I then made a list and from there narrowed down my options and settled on my own hobby that I am going to do in my free

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