My Dear Alicia,

Today has been a hard working day. We visited the Royal National Institute for the Blind, an association whose aim is to help blind people. We tried special apparatus for blind people like the walking stick or smelling pens, and tip Braille writing machines. A man gave us a lecture and we recorded everything, but then the teacher ran out of battery and sent me to her house to get a fresh one.

In the afternoon we all went to Spitbank Fort: a kind of round fortress surrounded by water, like a small island. We went by bus to the pier, and then took a boat. I did not like this visit very much. There weren't many things to see, except for the sea and the bright sun.

When we returned it was quite early, so some friends and I, including the teachers, went to the city centre and I went shopping. This is the first time in my life I see so many gift shops selling useless things all together. But I can promise they are quite nice. It's the kind of shop you'd like, full of strange and silly things that you only like at the first moment, but then, when you have so many of them, you don't know where to keep them and you finally hate them. Maybe it is the shop itself what you like most.

I'll buy you something from there..=)

See you. Take care,

Lidia