I like collecting stamps. When I was only a baby, my
mother began to collect for me. Of course, she did not let me touch the stamps
until I was old enough not to spoil them. I remembered that it was on my
fifteenth birthday that she first put them into my hands. They were in four
thick books and since then I have added three more, so that now I have a bigger
collection than any of my friends. How do I get my stamps I
have never bought even one stamp from a shop. My father works in a big office.
Sometimes he brings me some stamps from many countries of the world. I have
friends both here and in other countries. They send me a lot of wonderful stamps
every year. Since I am working for my living, I do not have as
much time as before to spend on my stamps. But in the evening, I sometimes bring
out the books and enjoy the stamps in them. Each stamp has a story to tell me
about far countries and strange people. Stamp collection is a good way to learn
history, geography and languages. The writer’s mother collected stamps for him more than ten years.