Improve Your English: English in Everyday Life

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the outdoor cloth—, the outdoor store. It’s Recreational 
Equipment Incorporated, REI. So I started buying equip-
ment from there and in my home in Oregon—I lived 
there for the past eleven years—and we have a famous 
mountain there called Mount Hood. And so my friends 
and I—hearing friends who can 
sign
—I joined them and 
we went, uh, climbing. We would start at midnight and 
climb up the mountain in the snow overnight, and then 
the snow would freeze and so you can use your clamps on 
the backs, bottom of your shoes, and hike up the moun-
tain, and you’d think it’s not that bad—it’s only a mile or 
so—but it took me eight hours to get all the way to the 
top because it was so hard to breathe. But it was a great 
experience, and once we got to the top, I can’t explain the 
feeling. It was just a wonderful experience, a great feel-
ing and, just to stand at the top of the mountain and-and 
look out down below. But the wind was-was terrible up 
there. And then, after I looked around for a while, I had 
to get back down the mountain, and to get back down 
the mountain, I used an ice axe, a pick axe, and had to 
push, put that into the side of the mountain to be able to 
slide down and . . . Th
e next day, I had bruises all over me 
from sliding down the mountain, but it was a really great 
experience.
6. THE SOCCER LEAGUE
MAN:
If I can come across some free time, which, uh, I, uh, 
well, I-I like making time for myself and my family. Um, 
I like spending time with my kids, uh, and my wife, uh, 
but also, if I’m not doing that, I try to, I play a lot of soccer 
during the weekends and tennis during the weekdays.