Elder Hostel

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Where were the speaker's parents born?
In Europe
In Arizona
In New Jersey
In Canada
What is an elder hostel?
A type of Indian Reservation
A combination of a holiday camp and a school
A place for people who want to relax and do nothing
A community for retired people
What did the speaker likely do after leaving the Indian Reservation?
Go to an elder hostel
Visit her daughter
Go on vacation
Take a new class
What is the speaker mainly talking about?
A vacation
A place
Her family
Her life

Hi, my name is Selma.
I am a first born American.
My parents were both born in Europe.
After college I got married, and I have two children.
I have a daughter who lives near by, and I have a daughter who lives over two thousand miles away, in a state called Arizona.
My husband and I visit her once a year on vacation.
I have two grandchildren, a boy of fourteen who is still in school, and a granddaughter of twenty-four, who is working.
For vacations, my husband and I also go to elder hostel.
This is a wonderful combination of a- an adult camp, and an adult school.
There're all over the world, and they are also all over the United States.
We go to the elder hostel for one week, where we are given our, our housing and our courses and classes.
We meet the most wonderful interesting people, and they come from every place.
One of our elder hostels included visiting an Indian reservation.
The Indian reservation was in northern Arizona.

In the future, my husband and I hope that we will be able to, do many more elder hostels all over the country.