My Favorite Activity Basketball - Personal Essay

My favorite activity is playing basketball. I started playing when I was in elementary school. I began playing it because all the other boys in my neighborhood enjoyed it.

Now I play basketball twice a week. It is good for me both physically and mentally. Physically, it helps me maintain my strength and endurance and keep my weight down. Mentally, it provides me with an interesting challenge and is a good way to relieve any frustrations which I have from school. I really love basketball.

I am a junior in high school now. I like all my subjects, but I especially like history. When I study history, I feel like I am studying many different subjects, not just history. That's why it's my favorite subject.

I study history every day. I study it three different ways. First, I study it in class. Second, I study my textbooks at home. My third and favorite way to study history is by reading historical novels. Studying history these ways has proved very beneficial to me. I am the best history student in my class!

August is my favorite month. Why is it my favorite month? It is my favorite because August 23 is my birthday! Every year on that day I get presents, cake, and lots of smiles and congratulations. I always have a great time.

I enjoy the presents, cake, smiles, and congratulations, but if I could spend my birthday any way I wanted, I would do something very different. Before you blow out the candles on your birthday cake, you are supposed to make a wish. I wish that I could get into a time machine on every birthday and relive the best moments of my life. Wouldn't that be a wonderful way to spend a birthday?