While visiting France, we decide to do some shopping.

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Not far the hotel there was a shop with all kinds

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of clothing hang up. When we went into the shop,

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a woman came up and asked that she could help us,

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so we said that we would like to look around on our

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own. She looked at us rather strange. Not having

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found anything we needed, we thanked the woman

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and was left. Suddenly my husband started to laugh,

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pointing to the small sign in English, which read:

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“DRY-CLEANING SHOP. As you are a smoker, please

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don't smoke here.”

　　Do you ever wish you were more optimistic, someone who always

expected to be successful? Have someone around who always

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worries about the worst isn't really a lot of funswe all know

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someone who sees a single cloud in a sunny day and says,“It looks

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like rain.” But if you catch yourself thinking such things, it's

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important to do something against them.

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　　You can change your view of the life, according to psychologists.

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It only takes little effort, and you will find more rewarding as a

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Result. Optimism, they say, is part about selfrespect and confidence

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and it's a more positive way of looking at life. Optimists are more

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likely to start new projects and are generally prepared to take risks.

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　　Many years ago, an Englishman was traveling to Italy. On his

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way, he stopped in a small town in Southern Switzerland. The Englishman

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traveled in a carriage inside that there was a carriage watch. This

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was earliest kind of watch. A native shop assistant happened to see

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the watch. He wondered what it was and asked the Englishman for it.

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“It is a carriage watch,”said the man.“This machine says the time but now

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it isn't working. “At once the shop assistants offered try to repair it. So

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the traveler handed to him the watch. The assistant was a very wise man.

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So it was not surprised that he managed to repair it. He even remembered

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how it made. As soon as the traveler had gone on his journey,

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he made a watch exactly the same type.

　　I am writing to thank you for your great hospitality.

I have a good flight home and my parents and sisters

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were waiting for the airport to meet me. There was so

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many news to tell them that we stayed up talking until

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long after a midnight. They were. interested to see my

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photograph, especially the one of you and your family.

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I learned a lot of English while staying with you.

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I am planning to write you regularly like a way of

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practising. It would be real helpful if you could, correct

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my mistakes. But I do hope you'll visit us next year.

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I'm sure we would always get very well with each other.

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I am looking forward to your good news.

　　Sandy is seventeen year old. And she is very busy. She never

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has enough time for that she wants to do. Like many other girls

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about her age, she spends hours on the telephone, talks to her

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friends. She often goes out on the weekends, and she looks after

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children for other families to get some money. But, of course,

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during the school years she herself has a lot homework to do.

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During the football season, Sandy is more busier than usual. She

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and other pretty girls are cheer leaders. They jump up and down

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together, cheering when the team have played well. When the team

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is not playing so well, the girls try their best encourage the players.

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The cheers are usually not long. But it takes a long time to

practise shouting them together.