Improve Your English: English in Everyday Life

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Th
e farthest I’ve fl own would probably be from New 
Jersey to Maine. It’s 
not terribly far
. But I’ve-I’ve fl own 
from New Jersey to the Maryland area, uh, to Virginia, 
but I think the farthest would be to Maine, so just a cou-
ple of hours, two to three hours.

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8. OUTDOORS IN NEW ZEALAND
Well, um, compared to here, you see, I have a little boy 
myself now and he’s eight years old, so I remember my 
own childhood at the age of eight very often because 
you relive it. You know, if you’ve never had a child before 
and you get to reexperience everything of your own. 
Th
e diff erence was, I think, in New Zealand, you can’t 
understate how much the outdoors plays a role in life. 
Uh, as, and-and the United States is an outdoors country, 
too, but New Zealand is fi lled with, um, with beautiful 
things and a temperate climate, and New Zealanders by 
culture love sport, obsessively, uh, I would say. Y’know, 
you think it’s-it’s obsessive here; i-it’s not, comparatively. 
And so, people, and that’s why you get some of these 
very unusual sports being developed there, like people 
jumping off bridges and, uh, and bouncing and 
bungee 
jumping
and throwing themselves against things, you 
know, all that. It comes from a love of doing things like 
that. And so, uh, childhood there, um, memories of-of-
of being involved in the outdoors and-and, uh, and play-
ing, but mostly making your own entertainment. Um, it’s 
not a structured environment. People forge their own, 
uh, their own games, their own ideas. When you go for 
the summer holidays, you’re usually off on an adventure 
somewhere, you know. It’s, uh, yeah, that, so those-those 
spring to mind.
9. WALLYBALL