Rachel Biel, around 12 years old.
My Aunt Marian kept many of the letters my mother, Donna Biel, wrote to her. This is one that I wrote to her family when I was 12 years old. She returned the letters in 2010. Most are recorded here. They were not entered in chronological order, so the best way to view them is by year, found in the index on the sidebar.
Dear Uncle Frank, Auntie Marian, Lisa, Eric, and Juliana,
Hope you had a Merry Christmas. We had a pretty nice one though Christmas Eve was more excited. We opened our presents that night and went out for supper.
Thanks for the stamps, Uncle Frank. I sure appreciated them. I didn't have hardly any of them. I hope you like the "1 cruzeiro" that I enclosed. Seven of them make 1 DOLLAR.
Sorry to hear you (Lisa) and Eric had chickenpox. I hat it when I was 4 years old. I'm also sorry to hear you both will be wearing glasses, but many people look prettier in them.
For Christmas, Helen got an Egipcian game called CARCARA. We had it the last time we were in the States. It sure is fun! Mom and Dad are playing it right now- scoring: Dad-1, Mom-0. I got a dart board and nine darts, we sure have fun with it. I gave Dad a little flashlight which you could adjust 4 types of screwdrivers on to it. He sure was happy with it.
I'm happy to hear that more books are coming even though you shouldn't have gone to the bother and work of doing it all. My little library is finally starting to grow. It has some real nice romance books by Grace Livingston Hill. Lately, I read an excellent book by Corrie Ten Boom. It's called the "hiding Place". She hides Jews in this little place in her house in Holland and than gets caught for it and goes to a concentration camp. You really should read it.
Lisa, Helen really misses you. All the time she talks about is "When we get to the States, Lisa, Polly and I will do this, this and this." She really misses you.
I can hardly believe we're going to the States in one year and at Christmas! I always wonder if it is fun to ice skate. We still have our roller skates, but I wonder if it is the same.
Now I have 1350 stamps. Most of them are from Brasil. I've 200 Brazilian ones and 151 American ones.
This last few weeks we went to two special films: Jesus Christ Superstar and Godspell. Have you watched any of them? I liked Godspell a lot better than Jesus C.S.S. Mary fell in love with Jesus in J.C.S.S In Godspell the disciples were dressed as clowns and Jesus had a huge blonde afro. He also had on a Super Tea-shirt on and overalls. Some things in it were just a riot.
Well, I guess I'd better end now. With Great Love,
Rachel Biel
PS. Oh, yeah, I forgot to tell you that I'll start school (Both B. and A.) on March 1st.
PPSS Dad's planning to take us (Charlie and I) on a bike hike. We each get to choose a few friends to go along. We'll stay out about 3 or 4 days. My bones are aching to go (and so am I).
Tchau
See you, I mean.
Write you later, alligators.
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