【推荐2】Hello! My name is Lingling. I come from China. I’m twelve. I have some new classmates. And I want to tell you something about them.

【推荐2】My hobby is collecting old mobile phones. Even people I don’t know send me their old phones these days when they find out about my strange hobby. It all started when I was eight. I saw my parents using their mobiles all the time and I kept asking them if I could have one. My dad told the guy next door about this and one day he came round with a ten-year-old phone he no longer used. Everyone at school thought it was great when I took it there the next day, even though it didn’t actually work!

Everyone has a reason for collecting things. For some, it’s because whatever they’re collecting maybe worth lots of money in the future. Others love having something that could be shown in a museum somewhere. That’s certainly what attracts(吸引) me to it. I often wonder what’s inside them, as they’re so much heavier than modern phones.

Some people find my hobby a bit strange. I used to tell everyone about it, but some people just didn’t know what to say, so they ended up feeling uncomfortable, which I’d rather avoid. I can completely understand—not everybody keeps over 150 old mobile phones in their bedroom! Most people find the fact it’s unusual really interesting, and I’m proud to have such an unusual hobby.

My mum and dad put up some shelves to keep my collection on. Although there’s probably space for a few more, and there are still some particular(特定的) phones I’d like to find, I may give up collecting them before long. My dad recently gave me the coins he collected when he was my age and they look amazing. It’s a far more expensive hobby but I really love having a go at it. I’ve spent more or less nothing on my phone collection so I’ve managed to save up quite a bit. We’ll see!