My dear Bennie,
I received your letter a day before I left. You sure saved my life - our life - that time! Otherwise, I don't know how I would get to Kirkland Lake ! But here I am back at the Lake Shore, contract mucking. There's good money in this job, but it is all bull-work and I am just about fed up with it. However, I am "in line" for two descent jobs: one as a sampler, the other one being work on flotation in the mill. I guess I'll get one of them, anyway (that's all I can handle).
We have arrived in Kirkland Lake on the evening of the 24th - dead broke so that we had to hunt up our acquaintances to borrow enough to pay for the gas down to Montreal - as my friend had to go there on business. He has a job assured to him at the Lake Shore Mill, and is coming up here in about ten days time.
How are things with your mother and you? When are leaving for Farmington falls? This has been an early summer hasn't it? That's why we have been lucky to get up to Kirkland Lake in the car, though ther has been some pretty rotten spots. Luckily, the government has horse-teams patrolling these places, pulling through optimistic motorists.
I have gotten my results from Queens - and they are terrible. I have managed to fail in every "doubtful" subject. The "Faculty however feels" that owing to my time table being all messed up and the course being especially difficult for me, I should be allowed to write supplements on all of them in the fall. But I do not think I'll do it. I feel as though I haven't been enough grounding in the subjects that I have been taking. General 5 without General 1 (by the way, I passed this) Surveying 3 and 5 - failed in both, without Surveying 1. So that, as the Dean told me in the fall, I better take 3 years over it instead of two. It is all very annoying, but it's no use howling about it. It's mostly my fault - I didn't study well enough.
Well, Bennie, I must quit. I'll write to you again soon. Please give my love to your mother.
Your Friend
Guigui
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