Copied from a dateless letter, In August, 2004. -Ed.

*First Page.
*Family; Read this page, then the last page, then give all 3 pages to Allison, Who is to read the pre-page, then this first, then the last. Got that?

Dear Family (& Alison, & anyone else who want's to read this.)

O.K. Here's the way it is: it's Friday morning (7:10) and I'm on the bus, and I don't know what to write about. So I'm going to babble at you, Allison. * Have I told you that the busses here suck? they're not pretty. & everybody speaks french, and almost everybody smokes. And do you know what colour they call the midle trafic light? (Between green and red?) Orange! That's just insanity. Have you said my "Blah Blah Blah" to any of your friends yet? No. I guess not. You haven't got this letter yet. Oh.

Can you believe that someone here is so crazy that they like my handwritting? Isn't that just insanity? We need more rain here. We certainly haven't gotten enough rain for it to be a respectable sort of spring.

I want to live in a house full of living plants. It would be Hexagonal or octagonal, with basicly a covered courtyard in the middle. One thing I would put in there is one of those pigmy connifers from China, or some sort of tree like that which will never grow over 10 feet tall. That would be great, because I could build a wooden... bench around it. And I'd use it as a christmal tree every year. Hmm... What I want, is a patch of forest, inside. There couldn't be any realy big trees though, sticking out of the roof, because branches could fall off it and break the plexiglass roof I'd have over the whole solarium. I wouldn't want to have to water all those plants, So I'd have gutters collecting all the water falling on the roof, and dirrect it inside. I wouldn't want a dirrect hole though, because then it would be freezing inside. You just have to have a "U" in the pipe taking the water in, so that there'll allways be some water between inside and Outside. If the water ever evaporated from the "U", the toilet float would go down, and just like in a toilet, the "U" would fill up with water. I'm not sure how the sprinkling system would work, but it would all just run off the flow of the water; No electricity. To keep people from trodding on the undergrowth, I'd have wooden walkways through out it all. You'd whack 2x4s into the ground, put longer 2x4s between them, and just planks on the top. Uh-Oh. Things won't go very well if it rains all over your christmass tree, lights, decorations and preasants. That would suck. Maby you could have the sprinkler system, (which would be more just a dribble system,) mounted on the bottom of the walkways. that way everything underneith them would get wet, (all the roots,) But the preasests, electric lights, decorations and People (all above the walks,) would stay dry. That would work. If you had a lot of flowers in there though, you'd want them to get pollinated, but you wouldn't want all the bugs of the outside world coming into your house. SO, you start keeping bees. But you probably wouldn't have enough flowers to keep them alive. So, you make a bee house in your wall, with entrances outside & inside. To get fresh air, you could have some of the roof windows open up, with screens beneith them. It would be sort of like a green house, but not quite as much light. It would still be warm though, so you could have figs and cherry tomatoes growing there. And any cats you'd own would think it's great. With the right kind of SHORT trees in there, you could even keep an Igwana. (If cats don't eat Iguanas.) If you were rich, you could also put in a little stream/pond and keep frogs or something. A good shape for it would be a geodesic dome. That would look nice. That would be a great place to have a dinning room. The T.V. , (Big screen,) would be on a rotating table in the wall. This way, it could be turned to be watched from the Living room, (durring day,) the kitchen, (while you're cooking dinner,) and the green space, (while you're eating dinner.) You could even have your sewer beneith the green space. Mabey... Maybe not. It would seem pretty weird, Having 3 walls on the kitchen, and the other side just... a bunch of trees, flowers, plants and stuff. You'd have to make sure that there wasn't much wind blowing through the house, because it wouldn't be too good to have leaves and dirt blowing into your kitchen. I guess that you could, instead, have a wall there, or just a bunch of screen, like in screen doors. That would look realy weird. I've got to say that that would be a pretty cool living room. If you had the T.V. to one side. That would be so weird though. Having couches, and a sterio, and all that stuff in there, when it's raining; you'd have rain all above you, on the plexiglass, and everything benieth your feet would be getting soaked, and you're right in the midle, in your easy-chair, watching T.V. That would be so weird! It's pouring rain all around and under you, and you turn on your sterio. It would be great for sleep-overs though: Foamies and sleeping bags, and a 1 foot high rail on the side of the

* This is the last page, So it's suggested that it be read last.

Walkways. That would be realy neat. It would be realy strangely like a camp-out in some ways though, with all that nature around you. I think that I'd want to keep the stuff in there to a minimum though; just some lawn chairs, and maby remote controlls for the stereo, which would have speakers mounted on the extremities of the green room. What would be the neatest of course, would be to have a big fruit tree in the middle, which wouldn't grow any taller, but was one of those trees that went out, so that you could eat beneith it's boughs. (And for dessert, reach up and pick a fruit!) ((Yeah Right!)) That would be a neat house though. Realy green. To keep gunk from clogging up the dribble system, you could have a grate, especialy if it's steep, then the crud would just pass over it, while water would go through. I think that such a watering system would be low maintenence. And if you dump your compost under the green place, all your plants should stay nice & healthy. You might have to clear up the twigs & leaves every now and then, but maby not; No one ever does that to a forest floor, so why should you have to do it?

Now it is evening & I'm on a bumpy metro. I still have no idea what to write about, and the ink in my pen is starting to act weird. Maby it will behave better now. Indeed it does, though this subway car still makes my writting realy messy. Allison; I hope you don't mind, but I have even less Idea what to write my family, so I'm going to tell them to read this. They didn't read the first page however, (O.K.? Don't read the first page you guys!) as they wouldn't understand everything written in it. So, What will I write now?

There's people near me on this car who keep switching between french & English, so I think that I can understand what they're saying, and then I don't. Now I'm on a jiggly bus. I have west-side story music going through my head. "Tonight, tonight..." I'll eat some rice tonight. There's a place in bus. Somewhere a place in bus. Pull the bell and He'll take you there. Show your pass and you're half way there. Some day. Some rout. Some where. "When I will go back to B.C."-"When he will shut up and leave me."-"Every one there gives me big smile."-"Laughing at your hair all the while."-"Everything's green in Victoria, No one is mean in Victoria, There's so much clean in Victoria, and Candy Queen in Victoria." Ching-da-da Ching-da-da, Ching-da Ching-da Ching-da (repeat.)

Oooh... I want to finish this letter so I can get it mailed. Allison; What sort of Cool & Exiting things are you doing in Math? Did you know that your brother Leaf is in the engeneering program at UVic? (Probably.) Isn't that neat? I still remember both of us being in Mr. Galloway's Grade 10 Math class. Ask him if he's done any fun integrals lately. (Pretty please.) Now it is Sunday, May... 10th or so.

Mother's day. That's when now is. I just phoned Home, woke my mom up, then realized that it's 7:00 AM there. I have an apple in my pocket. Some old lady on this bus said "It's supposed to be warm, It's supposed to be spring." Heather: it is Summer there, right? it's probably been Sumer since the middle of April. Oh right; Family: If you want to read more of my writting, (for what could only be an insane reason,) Go to the studio to read my "letters to the general population." There may be an excess of paragraphs about ballet shoes and technique, and floor barre, and variations, but hey, tough. Buy a helmet! (hee hee hee.) Thil will be the last page I write to all you people, because I want to save more room in the envelope for some Pictures. Look at the pictures to get used to my hair.

For my birthday, I don't want the wire puzzle called "Black Widdow."; I've "Been there, done that." I think the names of the others I have mastered are "Fantastic 5","The... Anomaly?", and which ever one is still there, with the arrow. I have done "Alcatraz", which almost everyone finds impossible, and I still don't see the exitment/Use of the Rubix cube. I'm sure that there are still some Origami books which are impossibly hard. (Prehistoric Origami is mediocre.) Or a realy nicely done up list of integrals and trigonometric identities. Or just a sumory of all the knowledge to be learned in 1st and 2nd year Calculus. Or a "Ring of Imortals," (Ha!) I haven't seen "Schrodinger's Kittens" around anywhere. Did I tell you that last week I got $50 from Spectrum for the highest mark in the math department? Oh, and by the way, I'm getting married, (in 30 or so years, when I meet the right person.) Sorry, that probably wasn't very good humor, but if the 2 halfs were on different pages, it would have tremendous shock value. I've done this page, so now I'll mail this letter.

Bye Y'all. Matthew the prince of Germany. [in addge de la Rose.]