No one is more determined on that than I am.

Dear Mother, this is such a dull letter but you must forgive me.

I was never so homesick and bored in my life.
It will be better when I go out tomorrow in my green tent and leave this beastly hole.

I like the tent life, and the horses and being clean.

I've really starved here for four days and haven't had a clean thing on me.