A few months later, he wrote home to his mother, quite distraught:
Dear Mother,
Australia is a terrible place! Oh, how I hate it here and wish to be back home!
The people are crazy, yelling at me all the time in a language I cannot understand. My neighbor on one side never stops screaming, and the couple across the hall are fighting constantly. Just yesterday, my upstairs neighbor threw himself out of the third story window and died...
It is just terrible here, and I miss you. But I am following your advice and keeping to myself, and practicing my pipes four hours a day...
Love, Scotty
LOLs!