She urges them to send her part of the family sewing to do outside of school hours.

She frequently walks down to Long Island sound, a mile and a half away, and says at one time: The sun was passing toward the western horizon, and all seemed calm and tranquil save the restless wash of the waves against the beach.
A gentle breeze from the water refreshed our tired bodies.

To one unaccustomed to such scenes it was like a glimpse into another world.

In the distance one could see the villages of Long Island, but I could think only of that village called home, and I longed every moment to be there.
Her school commenced May 23 and closed September 6, a term of fifteen weeks, for which she received $30, and she expresses her grief that, after having paid for necessary clothes and incidentals, she has only enough left to take her home.

She reaches Center Falls in time to assist in the final preparations for the wedding, on September 19, 1839, of her sister Guelma to Aaron McLean, a prosperous merchant at Battenville.
Susan's next school was in her home district at Center Falls, where she was very successful.