In the summer we always go to our dacha in the countryside,just outside moscow. A dacha is a kind of wooden summer house. We have a small garden with some fruit trees, and we grow vegetables too. We eat our meals in the garden. The weatheris usually warm and sunny at that time of the year, but it sometimes rains. There is a lake near our dacha. My brothers like swimming and they often go there. The water is always freezing cold, so I never swim. I prefer to stay in the garden and read. Sometimes the whole family goes for a walk in the forest and we collect mushrooms for the evening meal. I do not usually cook, butI lovemaking mushroom soup. We really enjoy our summers in the dacha.