Improve Your English: English in Everyday Life

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funny fact about him is he’s on a 
curling
team, which 
many people don’t know about, but he actually plays it 
and it’s very fun to watch, but not a lot of people know 
about it. Uh, then, my, the middle boy Jim is, he lives in 
Arlington, Virginia, actually, and he works for, uh, Wells 
Fargo and he does, sort of, he has this 
hybrid
position 
where he does banking stuff , but he watches the legisla-
tive agenda on 
the Hill
, and he sort of does the liaison 
between the banking aspect of that and the legislation. 
Um, and then the youngest, Patrick, is in Florida, and he 
is a wine consultant, um, at a Total Wine—it’s a com-
pany—and he, so people come to him and say, “I’m mak-
ing whatever for dinner, what kind of wine would you 
recommend?” And so he does that kind of education, so. 
He’s in Florida now. I forgot
 ’cause
he moved recently. I 
had him back in Minnesota still ’cause he just graduated 
from college. I 
gotta
remember that he’s a 
full-fl edged 
adult now.
6. FAMILY IN NEW ZEALAND
MAN:
He was, he was a photographer and had to, uh, 
travel a lot in his work. And, uh, and, my, I have a sister, 
and she has a-a large family of-of four children now and, 
uh, as a matter of fact, every year, I would travel, um, or 
my family would travel—I have a little family: I-I have a 
wife and son—we would travel to, uh, to New Zealand 
just about every year to see them, and, uh, usually it was 
in the wintertime because summer holidays here is the 
winter there, you see, it’s the opposite way 
’round
so we 
would end up in the kind of bleak season. Um, but, uh, 
but my sister and I, uh, y-you know, swap each other’s, 
uh, children’s interests and, um, my fam—, my mother 
and father now are very elderly, and they’re, my mother is 

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