THE TRAIN JOURNEY0 You know I was going down to London to stay with my friend 00 Alice dur

THE TRAIN JOURNEY

0 You know I was going down to London to stay with my friend

00 Alice during the holidays. Well, the train journey did turned out

to be a bit of a disaster! I went to a party the night before I had left,

and I woke up quite late enough, so I had to catch the train that

left round about midday. At first, I enjoyed the journey as there was

another student sitting opposite of me and we started talking.

Anyway, when she got out of the train at Oxford, I decided to read

my book but, because I hadn't had much sleep on the night before,

I soon fell asleep. I must have to slept for over an hour, because

I was woke up when all the doors started banging and I realised

that everyone was getting out because we were once in London.

I jumped up and managed to get myself and my luggage out in

a couple of seconds, and breathed a huge sigh of relief. It

was only when I had arrived at Alice's house that I have realised I

had dropped my address book down when I was getting out of

the train. It's a good thing I can properly remember your address,

otherwise I wouldn't have been able to write it to you, would I？

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