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 .

Question: What may have been your reason for staying behind ?
Answer: 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 .