Dear Mr.Briggs,
Excuse us for not answering you so long. This is Tatiana Lasareva writing,the teacher who has not gone to the USA. Thank you very much for coming to our school and speaking to teachers and students. The students are fond of you and your life style. They enjoyed listening to you at the meeting in the reading-room. They say, that it is sometimes difficult to understand Americans (due to pronunciation and intonation), but they understood perfectly well what you were saying. I explained to them that you are a teacher and know how to address the audience and how to explain in other words if people do not understand.

All the guys admire your courage to travel alone round the world by bicycle.  At your presentation they learned
many new things about the world, the peoples of different counties and their lifestyles. Some facts you told them were a real discovery to some of them, for example, global issues.  They could not even fancy that one can go round the world on a bicycle and carry out the ideas of peace, friendship and tolerance. It is very important now, since we are at the theshold of the third millenium and the future belongs to the children.  It depends on them if our fragile planet will exist in future. We think that you succeeded in convincing the teennages to live in peace, friendship and tolerance with all nations.

Meeting  you  was  one  more  open  door and window for our students to see the  world.

Thank you again for coming and sharing your ideas with us. We feel that Americans  are open-hearted and concerned.  The students who have recently returned from the USA say, that Americans are also very hospitable and polite.  So thank you for sharing your life with us. 

How do you feel after the ride?  Did  everything go well?

Best regards,
Tatiana Lazareva.