After Summer Vacation

Jane:

Hi, Mike! How are you? Nice to see you again!

Mike:

Hi, Jane! Good morning, Anne!

Jane:

Here we are, back at the Institute.

Mike:

How are you, Anne? Better, I hope.

Anne:

Much better, thank you.

Mike:

I haven’t seen you since the end of the last term, and it was obvious then, you were not at your best.

Anne:

Oh, that was ages ago I’m fine now. The only trouble is I couldn’t take my exams, so now I’ve got to make them up. Until I do I won’t feel like a second year student.

Mike:

That was bad luck.

Jane:

Oh, don’t worry about her, Mike. She’s a bright girl. She’ll catch up before you know it.

Mike:

I’m sure of it. How did you, girls, spend your summer vacations?

Anne:

Mine was wonderful. After I got over my illness, my parents took me to a resort in the Crimea. We had a lot of fun there-swimming boating and sunbathing.

Jane:

Doing everything people enjoy in the South, right?

Anne:

You bet.

Jane:

I envy you. I didn’t get the chance to go anywhere this summer.

Mike:

That’s too bad! What did you do, just stayed in town all summer?

Jane:

No, we moved to the country. But my parents – (they’re geologists, remember?) they had to go on an expedition and I was left to keep house and take care of my younger brothers.

Anne:

You must have had your hands full.

Jane:

You’d better believe it – cooking, cleaning, keeping an eye on my brothers.

Mike:

It wasn’t much of a vacation, was it?

Anne:

What about you Mike? You haven’t said anything about it.

Mike:

I couldn’t get a word in edge-wise. You two are such chatter boxes.

Anne:

Spare us, please. I know you had a good time. I can tell it from your face.

Jane:

Brown, isn’t he, Ann? So you had a nice rest in the South too, did you?

Mike:

Nothing of the sort. I made a tour of the North Caucasus, and then lived in a holiday camp near Elbrus.

Anne:

Really? How Great!

Mike:

I had a wonderful time there. In fact, we lived in tents, and spent a lot of time walking, climbing and enjoying the sights of snow-capped mountains.

Jane:

Tell us more.

Mike:

I wish I could, but I’ve got to run.

Anne:

Yes, I hear the bell now. Bye, Mike.

Mike:

See you later, girls.