School Journeys, страница 61 - гдз по английскому языку 5 класс книга для чтения Верещагина, Афанасьева

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7 School Journeys

More and more schools now arrange holiday trips abroad. Many parents have not money or the time to take their children abroad for family holiday, and so a school journey is a good chance of travelling abroad for the first time. And it is fun to go with your school friends. One of London schoolgirls, a thirteen-year-old Christina, describes here some of her impressions when she went on a sixteen-day cruise last July to Stockholm, St Petersburg, Helsinki and Copenhagen. “Two days before our cruise started I had already packed my suitcase. I was sure I had not forgotten anything. I could hardly sleep the night before, but at last the morning came. Just before I left the house, I received a card from my cousin wishing me a good trip. Then I took my little suitcase and went with my mother to the school where we had to meet the rest of our party.”

The coaches which were to take us to the station1 were already waiting at the school. Mr Richardson and the other teachers who were coming with us — Miss Scully, Miss Key and Mr Edwards — were checking our names on lists and handing out labels for our luggage.

When we got to our ship S.S. Devonia, everyone looked at her with excitement. We couldn’t wait to get on board.

The first day on the ship was very interesting. Everyone wanted to explore the ship. It was quite big and had a marvellous swimming pool. Later we were allowed to go on the bridge and see the captain’s quarters. But only the boys could go to the engine room.

Every morning we had lectures or films about the next port that we were to visit. We also had two lessons in the morning (History and Geography) and in the afternoon we played deck games or went swimming. Nearly every night there was dancing. We had to go to bed at ten and get up at eight. We were woken every morning by loud music. At first we hated it, but we had to get used to it.”

There were many shore excursions at the four ports which the ship visited. Christina described the things she liked — or disliked — in her diary. Here are a few of her comments.

“What I liked about Stockholm were their modern roads.” “… Three days were spent in St Petersburg. Russian schoolchildren came on board the ship, and I was impressed by how good their English was. The only thing I didn’t like in Russia was the taste of the ice cream!”

The next port of call was Helsinki. “I loved the cobbled streets and the fish market where they were selling fish straight from the fishing boats.”

In Copenhagen, Christina noticed in particular the green copper on roofs and statues, “It was very unusual. And of course we took hundreds of photographs of Copenhagen’s little mermaid.”

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