Jerusha’s summer and winter holidays

Nobody will deny that having holidays is always a great fun for students. Firstly, they have days off from monotonous intense studying. Secondly, it is variety and relaxation from everyday routine. Besides, spending holidays reasonably, students can widen their horizons. I am convinced that all students like holidays and always look forward to them, and so does Jerusha Abbott. It must be said that Jerusha had never before dreamed there was such a thing as holidays, because she was an orphan and had spent all her childhood behind the walls of the asylum. When a freshman, Jerusha had her first vocation, which was the Christmas one, and she spent it in the college together with a girl from Texas named Leonora. The vocation was rather monotonous: every day they just walked across the country and explored the neighborhood. Still Jerusha didn’t fool away her time, but read a lot of various books in order to enlarge one’s vocabulary and to widen one’s horizons. Besides, it should be mentioned that Jerusha got a money as a Christmas present from her trustee and spent them very reasonably on the things she really needed, among which there were five hundred sheets of manuscript paper and a dictionary of synonyms.

During her next holidays Jerusha was staying on the farm of Mr. and Mrs. Semple “Lock Willow” of very hospitable people: Mr. and Mrs. Semple. Certainly, she didn’t know what kind of a thing a farm was and had never been on one before. Therefore, everything there was new and enjoyable for her. Jerusha had long conversations with the owners of the farm, helped them to look after the animals, and just took prolonged walks to green meadows. On the whole she liked the farm, and she even once said: “One must be mad to live in a city when there’s an opportunity to live on a farm”.

Her next vocation Jerusha had at Sally’s place, after which she under the great impression, because it was the first time she had been staying with a real family. Jerusha liked Sally’s relatives, as they were very nice, and even sitting at the table she had the jolliest time. But the greatest fun for Jerusha was the opportunity to attend the true ball.

In a few months Jerusha was very lucky to go to New York. She and her friends were going to do some spring shopping and to visit the theatre. Jerusha was very excited, because she had been neither in a hotel, nor in the theatre before. Apart from that, she was amazed by the hugeness of New York, by its different people, busy streets and big shops.

I should also mention that Jerusha and Sally became such close friends, that once Sally invited her to spend a few weeks at their camp. Actually, Jerusha had been working very hard and needed some healthful recreation. The weather was fine and she had a wonderful unforgettable time.

So, as we can see, all Jerusha’s holidays were full of strong impressions and new discoveries. She met a lot of new people and made good friends with some of them. What is more, she became more sociable, confident, independent in her thoughts and learnt to see through people better.

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