GOING ABROAD

I’m taking my family abroad this year. My wife and I and our two children are all going. My older brother is a farmer. He’s never been overseas and he has decided to go with us. First he will go on horseback from his farm to the bus station. He’ll take a bus to our house. From here, we’ll all go together.
We are going to go by train to New York, and then take a ship to Europe. When we arrive in Europe, we’re going to rent a car and drive wherever we want to go. Then we’ll return the car. We are planning to fly home.
It took us a long time to decide where to go, but I think we have planned a very interesting trip. At first we wanted to fly because it would be faster and would give us more time for sight-seeing but my brother was very anxious to take a boat trip. The children will enjoy that too.
We don’t know how many suitcases to take. We can take as many suitcases as we wish on the train and the ship. But when we travel by car and come home by plane, we will have a problem. We can only have forty four pounds for each person on the plane, and that isn’t very much. My wife will decide what we should take with us. She can get a lot of things into each suitcase. She puts all the heavy things in the suitcase first, and then puts the lighter things in. She puts the square things in the corners and the round things in the middle. She packs very well. My brother has no problem. He just carries one small suitcase wherever he goes, and always has everything he needs.
SHOPPING FOR CLOTHES


Bob and Don go to the same university. They both needed some new clothes for school and they decided to go shopping together in the new department store.
First, the two friends went to the men’s department to see the suits that were on sale. The salesman helped them find the right size and they each tried on several suits. Bob found a light gray suit right away and he bought it. Don couldn’t make up his mind which one to buy, but he finally selected a blue suit. The boyes also bought two pairs of pants because they were not too expensive.
Next, they went to the shoe department. The clerk measured their feet and brought each of them several pairs of shoes to try on. It didn’t take them very long to get their shoes. They didn’t really need socks, but these were on sale, too, and they decided to buy several pairs.
Don had to get some shirts and Bob wanted to get a sweater. While Don went to the shirt department, Bob went to buy his sweater. It only took Don a few minutes to select his shirts, and then he went to the sweater department to meet his friend. Bob tried on every sweater in his size, but none of them looked good on him. The salesman said that he would have some more sweaters in a few days, and Bob said he would come back then.
The boys intended to go to the movies before going home. But after they paid for all their new clothes, they had only enough money to ride home on the bus.