I stayed behind to write in my journal and sit on the porch with the daughter . We begin to communicate by looking at words in her English translation book . We decided that the others on the walk will be wet when they return as they have no raincoats or umbrellas and it has started to rain very hard . Lloyd , Jonathan , Albert and Raymond are working on changes to the software on the computer Raymond is using .
What may have been your reason for staying behind ?
- I wanted to record my family 's progress with learning English .
 - I wanted to record my thoughts .
 - I wanted to relax alone on the porch .
 - I had to work on changes for the software .


I wanted to record my thoughts .