1st Letter
Dear Mike:
Hi, how are you? I’m writing you this letter to tell you how things are going on here at these times. There’s so much to tell, that I don’t even have an idea from where to begin, but I guess I’ve got to “introduce” you to my life first.
I live in New York, although I was born in Alabama. My family decided to move on here cause it was too hard for my dad to find a job in Alabama.
Well, the little town where I live is called “Green Valley” and it’s about one hour by car to the centre of NY. My neighbor is called Brian “Syn” Elwin Haner Jr, and he’s been my best friend since always, so are our families. Just imagine, our families decided to move on here and leave everything behind in Alabama; that proves loyalty don’t you think? My house isn’t so big; we are five in my family though, my older sister and my young brother. We have four rooms, one for my dad and mom, another one for my sister, one for Laura (our colored servant) and the last one for my brother and me. I need more space so we’re going to make another room with my family and Syn’s family is going to help too.
Things seem to be apart from the rest of the world here in my town. It’s like I’ve seen al this people looking for a job and some of them trying to survive in the street, but here it just looks so normal and peaceful. Although we aren’t rich, we aren’t poor either, so I feel myself lucky for living in this place. In fact, many of my friends think the same way I do. The place is beautiful and almost all of the families here have got new cars and servants.
Hope you’re fine and let’s keep in touch!
Your friend, Lucas
2nd Letter
Hi Mike:
How’s everything there? Hey do you remember I told you Syn’s family and mine were going to build a new room for me? Well we did so, and we spent such a good time building it! And it looks so cool, I’m just proud of it. I love doing this kind of things, you know, the building stuff, and so does my family, specially my young brother. The other day we went to mount “Zachary James” near our town with Syn’s family. We made a fire in the night and sang some Yankees songs; we also took a radio with us, so that we could listen to music all the day. Aren’t these things amazing? Just love carrying the music! Jennifer (Syn’s twin sister) was reading an Agatha Christie book, she lent me the book for a coupe of hours, and I loved the book (I like very much reading, may be genetic, my mother loves reading too), Agatha is really a good writer. When we came back home Syn and I began playing guitar. That’s our passion. Blues is our favorite genre in music, it expresses so well the guitarists felling.
I haven’t told you jet how my fathers pay all of our stuff. Well my father’s an architect; specialist in big structures (that explains why he thought that NY was a better chance for looking jobs) and my mom is a doctor. As I already told you we aren’t either poor or rich, but my fathers are professionals from recognized universities, that’s why they’ve got quite a little bit more chances to find a job at this times.
I’m trying to earn money someway as I want a new guitar but I don’t want to ask to my family for money, cause I know this aren’t good times to do it, but I really want the guitar, so I’ll find a way to get a new one or to earn money.
Hoping everything’s ok there,
Your friend, Lucas
3rd Letter (Check This One)
Dear Mike:
Hey! Guess what? I got a 10 at school. Isn’t that cool? Syn didn’t do so well though, he just got a 5. Anyway, he’s quite intelligent, so he’ll have no problem on increasing his marks.
Zoey (kind of my best friend after Syn) came to my house yesterday. Also Anthony and Paul came by the day. It’s so funny when we’re all together after school. Days ago we accorded to earn money someway so that we could by a Forbes Magazine in 3-D. They are quite expensive, so neither of us could’ve ever bought one by ourselves.
Most of the times when I meet with my friends (and this time was not the exception), we use to read comics. Probably we’ve already read about one hundred! Not kidding, it’s just amazing when we read them, you know why? Cause after reading them, we go out to a wasteland (only if we are at Zoë’s place, otherwise we go somewhere at the street or a lone place) and act the whole chapter. I know it may sound strange for you, but it’s like turning into a superhero! Just try it once it’s just amazing.
Being at school is kind of boring, but there are some things we have to know. You know, independence, WW1, the last decade and everything. We are about forty (may be fifty) at my class. So you may imagine how the poor teacher is all the class. Sometimes it’s just so noisy that it’s impossible to hear the teacher, and she just stands there and hits the draft slate against the blackboard and tries to make us listen to the class.
I usually sit next to Zoë, and at the front Kirk and Paul. Left side: Kurt and Dave. Right side: Hayley and Eddie. And at the back: Anthony and Syn. All of them are my best friends, it’s cool when we are all together doing all of this acting stuff, makes it look so real.
The school isn’t so big, two floors and not much teachers. But, the students are about five hundred. God, that’s a lot isn’t it? James Hetfield, headmaster and founder of the school, told us some time ago that we’ll have to share classes with another grade. Well, actually now we’re like one class. We have been so much time together that I think we all have this felling of unity and respect for another.
Your friend, Lucas
4th Letter
Hi Mike:
Things are not good at this days, this crisis we’re having is making everyone loose their jobs. My mom just got fired from the hospital were she was working, now there are only twenty doctors in the hospital, and as a lot of people are in the street they’re very susceptible to many diseases so hospitals are full. The problem is that hospitals don’t have enough money cause the state can’t give them what they need to receive big amounts of people, so to receive them all they need to save money, the problem, the only way of saving money is firing people, and firing them makes everything slower… people’s going crazy. Although my dad’s got quite a secure job, so we can still live here, anyway Syn’s family offered their help in case we needed.
United Kingdom and France are fighting as usual… what’s wrong with this European people? People there are quite confused, in UK the conservatives won the elections a couple of years ago, Stanley Baldwin was the leader. Everything’s saying that he’s going to come as the winner again for the elections next year. Franklin D. Roosevelt just got this “New Deal” stuff, with what he thinks may help all of this depression in our country. Spain is in a huge internal conflict by now, all of this civil war is affecting them a lot, and it seems that many people is going to keep dying. I can’t forget telling you that the some people at the UK are fighting for the Irish Free State. I don’t want to be negative but don’t you think something big is coming? Oh, and how could I forget… you know that nowadays things are not going well between white and blacks, white people think they’re superior by any stupid reason, I don’t think that way, but there’s a lot of people that does.
Anyway I won’t keep telling you all the negative stuff occurring nowadays. There’re also good things happening. Such as the radio! How could we possibly now everything happening at our country without a radio? And more important than that! How could we listen to music everywhere we want to? Also Hayley told me the other day that a man called Paul Tutmarc is creating a “bass guitar”. Don’t now exactly what it is but you know, got my ideas as everyone else.
Well my friend, hope you and your family is fine,
Your friend, Lucas
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