A friend of yours has been out of station for a month and there was an important event/function held in the school while he/she was away. Write him/her a letter describing of the event/function, and your role in it, and why your friend was missed.

Dear Peter.

I hope your arm is recovering well and that you will soon be able to return to your normal activities. I was very scared to learn that you would have to be away for a while until your arm recovers, but I believe that you will succeed in making up for lost time as soon as you return.

I write this letter to inform you of our last activity, I found it very exciting and with high social value, although some of our colleagues found it bad and tiring. Well, we were taken to join an NGO and have a day cleaning the beach in our city. We arrived at the beach very early and the NGO leaders gave a short talk talking about the harm of garbage on our beach and why it was important to clean it and keep it clean.

Then we were separated into groups. Each group was responsible for one side of the beach. Our job, basically, was to remove any and all garbage we found. I was responsible for separating the garbage found in the selective collection categories.

You may not believe it, but in addition to numerous pet bottles and plastic utensils, we found tires, a sofa, shoes, tables and even a plastic tent completely buried, which was very difficult to remove from the sand.

Despite all the work and tiredness, it was very gratifying to know that we are contributing to a lesser environmental impact than we, human beings, are responsible for.

I was going to go back there next month and join the NGO in that service again. I hope that by then you are recovered and can join me.

Best regards

Alex Santanna.