> Friday morning I'm pointing the truck toward Portland. Does anybody know anything about Portland? National Geographic lists 12 states with a place called Portland, but this one is in Indiana. I've never been there before.
> Howard

Hello Howard

Sometimes I wish England was as big as America. I am stuck in a small town in East Anglia PLUS- the rain is coming down and it's supposed to be SUMMER. Are all you guys from America or can anyone sympathize with me for being in Rainy Rainy Colchester?

I am also incredibly tired because I went to France yesterday and to see the Bayeux Tapestry with my History class and spent over 18 hours travelling and only 3 actually DOING anything. My friend and I had ham sandwiches in a French resteraunt and watched the Tour de France...wait for it....IN FRENCH. Very exciting. And I began to remember my French as I went along which was good too. I stopped doing it last year because I dropped it when I finshed my GCSE exams. I got an A for french by the way. Just thought I'd tell you that.

We also met a group of people from Pennsylvania (if that's how it's spelt) They were lovely and if any of them are on this wonderful message board, I hope you had a lovely day and I'm sorry it was raining. I hope your salad was nice too, it looked really good.

Anyway, I'm going to go now. My bus goes back home from college in about two hours so I'm off to take some books back to the library and hide from my History teach because I'm not going to his lesson- I'm too tired.

Bye Bye folks- my summer holiday officially starts here. I'm off home to sleep. Love from Lizzie xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx