Dear friend, how long have you and I not seen! I received your letter a week ago, it made me very happy. Now there was a free minute, I decided to answer you.
This summer I spend in the country with my parents and younger sister. We travel to the city very rarely. But I am not drawn there. The cottage is very good. The weather is great, very hot. Every day, the whole family goes to the river to swim and sunbathe. We spend a lot of time on the beach. In such weather, there are all summer residents. Mom bought me and my sister an inflatable mattress, and I still have flippers. In them I can swim very fast. Once I even wanted to swim from one shore to another, but dad did not allow me. Next year I will definitely do it.
My sister and I have one thing to do. On Wednesdays we always go fishing together. The night before, my sister is surely preparing for us food that we need to take with us. And I dig worms and take fish food with me. We get up fishing very early. On the street at this time of the day it is still damp and cool, so you have to dress warmer. Going back we are already taking off our windbreakers.
Jack London became my favourite writer from his first books I'd read. First of all I got interested in Jack London as a personality. His life story struck me not less than his works. What a man! He was strong and talented. He lived a life of adventures and hardships, so he knew what he was writing about. In his novel Martin Iden he describes his biography. What a hard life he lived!
Jack London was born in San Francisco in 1876. From his childhood he suffered greatly. He changed a lot of jobs: selling out newspapers, working at the factory. He hated that kind of job, which exhausted people and made them suffer physically and morally.
Young Jack had no opportunity to go to school, so he studied privately reading much at night.