Grateful #20 - other people's cool hobbies.

Nitro and electric remote control car driving from the parking lot of the Civic Center in downtown Atlanta.  It's pretty much awesome. 

My friend shared one of her hobbies with me today, which in itself is something I am grateful for - my hobbies are not very shareable like that.  I can't write with people, and I can't play tennis with friends if they don't know how to play well.  But driving remote control cars - that is something that anyone can do together. 

I love learning new things - most of the time new knowledge comes from things I've read or things I've heard.  Being a kinesthetic learner, however, makes learning certain things much easier for me - like being able to use the remote control to feel how the cars pick up speed, traction, take turns, and skid out.  I was able to determine at what point I needed to start turning in order to not flip the car, and I was able to get the other car free from the staircase by driving mine at it to knock it loose.  I learned all of those things today.  I did listen to my friend tell me about how the engine works and how the temperature has to stay somewhere near 180 degrees, but that stuff doesn't really make sense to me as much - I learn better and more thoroughly by actually doing something.  I am grateful for being able to learn something completely new - not from a book, a newscast, a story online, a youtube video, or from someone telling me.  I learned how to do something new today by actually doing it.