How do you spend your spare time? There will be different answers to it. Most people in Poland (波兰) have their own ways of spending free time. Sometimes they just want to take a rest, but they try to do something more pleasant most of the time. They have many different hobbies, which help them to get away their everyday problems and spend their free time happily.

Many Polish (波兰的) people like traveling. They always look for new places that they have never been to and add new and exciting experiences to their journey. Some of them like to climb mountains, others like to go to a sea or a lake to swim, because these can make them get exercise and are good for their health.

    Many Polish people also like to do sports in their free time. They are usually crazy about football, and football is regarded as the Polish national sport. Many football fans may support a certain team, so they go to watch every match of the team they support, and they buy many things that have any relation with the team. Watching sport and doing it both are good ways to relax.

In addition, doctors say that doing sports is very good for health. Many people in town, especially young men, often go to the gym to attend the exercise classes to keep it.

    Besides these ways, Polish people have many other ways to spend their free time. And they really enjoy their free time.

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    Everyone has birthday. Ways of celebrating birthday are different.

In America, parents have a party for their birthday kid. The birthday kid can get lots of presents and eat birthday cake with friends. In Brazil, special candles are needed for birthday. In England, the birthday kid is lifted up and put down by his classmates happily. In Thailand, two tall candles are lighted the night before birthday.

    As we all know, it is getting popular to have cake on birthday in China. But parents usually cook a big dinner for the kid on birthday. The birthday kid eats long noodles and eggs. Long noodles mean long life and eggs bring good luck.

    People in different countries have different ways to celebrate birthday. It is important for us to celebrate birthday. Everyone grows one year older after his or her birthday. Relatives(亲人) and friends feel happy for his or her growing up.

    Shadow puppet play(皮影戏), also called “shadow play”, is a traditional Chinese art of storytelling. Dramas were played out in screen or walls for thousands of years to entertain(娱乐) and instruct. It was very popular in many parts of China during the Tang (618—907) and Song(960—1279) periods.

    Shadow puppets are made of hard leather(皮革). The leather is cut out in the shape of a person, an animal or an object. Each puppet is painted in bright colors and put on a stick. Different colors are used to show good and bad of persons in the drama. Some puppets have movable arms and legs. They're reflected(反射，映出) on the white screen through the light.

    During a shadow puppet play, the players stand behind a white screen with lights behind it

    The audience sit in front of the screen. The players hold the puppets very close to the screen so the audience can see the puppets' shadows clearly. Then they move the puppets around and do the voices of the different roles.

    Now with TV and films, shadow puppet plays are not as popular as before. But the basic principle(愿望) and ways of shadow performance played an important leading role in the invention of the modern movie and the development of the movies and cartoons. Nowadays, the

    Chinese shadow puppet plays have been collected by the museums of many countries in the world. It is the treasure in the world culture and art family.