An appropriate English expression is to "keep your chin up!" This means to remain positive and cheerful during hard times. Keep your chin up, your head high, look ahead and keep on going with a smile! Don't give up. This expression is commonly used as an encouragement to keep going.

If you have a friend today who is feeling down, tell them to "chin up" and fight through the bad days!

And lastly, to my followers from all around the world, you're always welcome here at The English Student! Learning is about sharing, listening and being open to ideas. We may not always agree, but we respect each other. Thanks for always doing that with me. Much love to you all and remember to keep your chin up!

The journey of Mr and Mrs Robinson's travel involves seven phrasal verbs:

For many months, Mr and Mrs Robinson have wanted to get away.
Get away - Leave for a trip

After deciding they're going to take a trip to the city of Marseille, they pack up everything they'll need: sweaters, jackets, hats, shoes, camera, toiletries.
Pack up - To get everything you'll need and put them in a bag or suitcase

They get to the airport on time and the plane takes off.
Take off - When a plan leaves a destination and flies off

They land at the airport in Marseille and wait for a cab to pick them up and drop them off at the Hotel Petite.
Pick up - Get someone from a location to take them somewhere else
Drop off - Take a person to a place and leave them there

When they arrive at the hotel, the bell boy takes their luggage and guides them to the entrance of the hotel where they are required to check in. After spending five days in Marseille, Mr and Mrs Robinson are happy and rejuvenated, ready to head back home. They check out of the hotel.
Check in - Show your ID and register at a hotel to get a room and key
Check out - Let the hotel know you are ending the stay and leaving

I hope Mr and Mrs Robinson had a great trip and I hope you've found this diagram of travel phrasal verbs to be somewhat helpful, especially if you'll be traveling in the next few weeks!

Are you going somewhere during the holidays? Please share with us your travel story!

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Artist Mickey Bach also has a lot of wonderful and funny drawings showing some different phobias. Take a look at them below. His collection of Word a Day was popular in the 1940s. You can see a collection of them on this website.

If you've been following my Instagram or my blog posting from last time, you probably remember that I was heading to Oregon and also Olympic National Park. Our trip was beautiful, especially being surrounded by so much greenery. The weather, however, was another story - cold and windy. It was definitely not beach weather.

Olympic National Park was stunning and breathtaking (take a peek at a previous lesson on "breathtaking" here). As we got to the top of the mountain I was suddenly overwhelmed by this fear of falling off the mountain. I could not look down and my legs suddenly felt very weak. I quickly took a few pictures and ran back to the car. I've never been afraid of heights, so this was pretty strange to me.  A few days later, I was in an elevator alone and all of a sudden it stopped on the 14th floor. All the lights started flickering for a few seconds and would not move! I tried pressing every single button and it would not respond. My cell phone also had no signal in the elevator. You can imagine that after my experience on the mountain, this really made me panic as all I could think about was the elevator falling all the way down! Luckily, after a few minutes, it started working again. I walked out, breathed a sigh of relief and vowed to never take an elevator again. But of course, this would not be possible as I I need to use the elevator to get home every day.

Someone who is afraid of heights is known as having acrophobia (pronounced as: ak-ruh-FO-bee-uh). For some who suffer from extreme acrophobia, it could cause shortness of breath, panic attacks, rapid breathing, nausea, vomiting, sweating, dizziness. It's definitely not a pleasant condition to have. They also avoid any activity that involves heights such as,  flying, going on a Ferris wheel, skydiving, using an elevator, or even  something simple like climbing a ladder.

Let's break down the word.

Acro- is a prefix (added to the beginning of a word) from the Greek term "acron" meaning height or high point . You may know "-phobia" as a common suffix (added to the end of a word) meaning fear. It's from the Greek work "phobos." There are lots of words in the English language ending with "-phobia" depending what your fear is. For example, the word "clinophobia" is a fear of going to bed. There's basically a phobia for everything you can think of.

Tomorrow I'll present a few more interesting phobias and words with this suffix, so don't forget to check back!

Do you have a phobia of any kind?

Summer has finally arrived! I hope you're all enjoying it so far! Some of you may live in a place where it's warm all year round, so summers may not seem like a big deal to you. But to those living in a place like Seattle, we always lack vitamin D. Even spring time could be rainy, gloomy, and windy. So summer is kind of a big deal here! To celebrate the nice weather, we'll be heading off to a beach in Oregon tomorrow.  The weather there will be a little cooler than it is here, but at least there's no sign of rain! We'll also be driving through Olympic National Park which I know will be beautiful. Any of you been there before?

As I was doing some packing yesterday, I started placing everything I'll need on my bed. Right away I felt inspired to draw all these essential things that one may need for the summer time. You may also be thinking about your summer. Did I miss out any other essentials?

If you're following The English Student on Instagram, you may be able to follow our short road trip with our little dog Maggie.

Are you going or planning on going anywhere fun this summer?

The other night I had a hard time falling asleep so I started watching the show Seinfeld. It was an episode where one of the characters, George couldn't keep a secret. He kept trying hard to maintain an expressionless face so that Jerry, his friend wouldn't know he was keeping something from him. Jerry could sense something was going on and says, "so that's your poker face?" George says, "no, that's my regular face!" It was obvious it was not his regular face as he had a poker face.  You can see this video on the bottom of this post.

A poker face is a face that has no emotion so that no one can tell what you are thinking or feeling. It is, as I mentioned above, "expressionless." If you're familiar with poker, you'll know that it's very important as a good poker player to maintain a blank expression so that you won't reveal too much to your opponents.

You may have also heard of poker face from Lady Gaga. One of her hit songs is called .......Poker Face! Part of the lyric is, "He can't read my poker face.....p p p poker face.....p p p poker face." I won't elaborate on the meaning of the song but she is basically hiding her true feelings and concealing her true emotions. She has a p..p..p..poker face! Also Lady Gaga was extremely hard to draw, but I hope you get the point!

My husband is extremely good at telling jokes or a funny story with a poker face. Me? Not so much! I start laughing even before I utter a word. Then everyone just starts laughing at me for laughing! Are you good at maintaining a poker face?