«Jenny was looking out the window. The day was rainy and she didn't feel like going out.»
"Just my luck," Jenny thought. "Why am I always so unlucky? ...»
«... I planned this holiday well beforehand and I thought it would be fantastic but everything has gone wrong again."»
«A year before her holiday in the Turkish resort had been spoilt because of a traffic accident.»
«On the second day after her arrival she had gone on an excursion to a nearby town.»
«The bus driver had been very careless and they had crashed into a tree. Jenny had had to spend a few days in hospital. On any holiday she seemed to have nothing but bad luck.»
Many thousands of years before Christopher Columbus’ ships landed in the Bahamas, a different group of people discovered America: the nomadic ancestors of modern Native Americans who hiked over a “land bridge” from Asia to what is now Alaska more than 12,000 years ago. In fact, by the time European adventurers arrived in the 15th century A.D., scholars estimate that more than 50 million people were already living in the Americas. Of these, some 10 million lived in the area that would become the United States. As time passed, these migrants and their descendants pushed south and east, adapting as they went. In order to keep track of these diverse groups, anthropologists and geographers have divided them into “culture areas,” or rough groupings of contiguous peoples who shared similar habitats and characteristics. Most scholars break North America—excluding present-day Mexico—into 10 separate culture areas: the Arctic, the Subarctic, the Northeast, the Southeast, the Plains, the Southwest, the Great Basin, California, the Northwest Coast and the Plateau
