1 . The part of the school trip that none of the teenagers were looking forward to had arrived. We sat waiting on the bus fearing how ________ the evening would be. “Couldn’t they have ________ some more interesting ways for the evening?” we thought. After we ________ the museum, however, my original ________ were contradicted.

We found the museum was really ________ even though it contained nothing but children’s exhibits. My friends and I ________ decided to take advantage of the museum exhibits open to ________. We walked from room to room and ________ like the children that it was intended for. We ________ in superhero costumes that were way too small, served each other ________ ice cream in a toy ice cream shop and ________ other games. We had a great time.

After those few hours spent acting like a six- year- old, I ________ that all of the stress of the coming week of school was ________. And I was left with one of the best feelings in the world: the feeling of ________. What I learned was that sometimes the best ________ for stress and a busy life is as simple as playing. I believe in childhood and the ________ of play because some of my fondest ________ have come from doing childish things   ________ to the activities in the museum.

Now, any time I feel ________, I go and play with my friends and younger neighbors. Childhood feeling and games never fail to ________ even the worst of days.

2 . On Christmas of 2017, I was born again. We like to spend our Christmas holidays somewhere warm abroad, and that year we_________Uganda. Nature, wildlife, and sunny days were a_________when it was so_________and dark in Europe. Life was beautiful, and we had a rental car and a busy schedule ahead to explore the country.

This is where this short travel story turns into one of my most_________travel experiences. At Murchinson Falls National Park, we had a car accident. I lost _________of the car, and it rolled over, destroying windows, chassis(底盘),and the engine. But we were alive! My right arm was_________injured, but we_________to walk to our lodge(旅馆), not far inside the_________. In the lodge, I was_________to learn that there was a pretty decent American hospital in Masindi that was just a one-hour drive away. Moreover, one of the lodge’s guests was a nurse who__________the wound while we were waiting for the taxi. The hospital took care of us and after a couple of injections and stitches(缝合), I was__________to head to our new hotel in Masindi; however, my wound required daily__________and more injections, so we were__________to stay in town for a few days.

The town’s highlights were the market and our__________visit to the hospital, so we__________looking for the small things,__________with the medical staff and the people in the market, and learning more about their customs.

We learned to slow down. When we were allowed to__________, we took a road trip through the country to see something else. We did not care about our travel bucket__________anymore - we were__________, and we wanted to enjoy Uganda’s unique nature and its people. In the end, our Uganda trip was not about the places that we saw, but the people that we met. It was travel for__________VS sightseeing.