Nothing Lasts Forever… :)

I opened my eyes but something was wrong all I could see was in black and white, I remember that I hit my head at one point but I didn’t wake up at the same place. I hit my head in my room but I woke up already standing up in the kitchen, what had happened? I looked around the house to see if anyone was home, but there was no sign of life ANYWHERE. But suddenly I found myself lying on the sofa downstairs, I was like in two places. So this is how it feels when someone gets hit in the head and they become unconscious… all the sudden my brother comes in the door with his friend thank god, finally someone and I shout “ Hey! Can u hear me? I’m right here!” But it was as if he couldn’t hear me. So I went right in front of him as he tried to go up the stairs, but no he just went right though me and so did his friends like if I was invisible or something. What was I going to do now? I had hit my head and one of me was visible and laying on the couch and the other one of me was invisible, could see in black and white, and no one could hear me at all. After a while my parents came, checked on me to see if I had waken up yet but I hadn’t so they went to their room to call the doctor. As that was going on my brother came to see me with his friends and it was funny because I could see and hear what he was saying to me. Then I laid down on the other couch to see if I would ever wake up again as me, as the real me, the one on the couch unconscious. WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT… will I wake up and everything would be great but no one would believe that I could see what everyone was doing and saying. Or will I never wake up and have to live a world in black and white FOREVER…..

This is my SAM animation!

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January 28^th 2010

Ana Latorre

“Make sure you don’t forget to do all your chores Eva!” the lord shouted at me after doing 10 hours of work. “ As you will!” I shouted back in a refined way, as I ran for my life. Prithee come in, it’s indeed hard being a peasant. All I eat is bread and more bread. Life is bad as a peasant but I guess I can change that, I am not like a serf who, once born a serf is always a serf. As you can see I work in a small manor ruled by a small lord. This is my home, a two room cottage made out of mud plastered branches and straw. Other houses like that one over yon where my good friend lives is made of stone and wood with a roof of thatch. I don’t have that many things in here, only a table and a chest to keep my clothes in. Oh and of course we sleep on piles of straw on the ground. The privy I would wish to not even speak about.

That’s not the only horrible thing about being a peasant for the rest of your life.  Another hardship is the clothing. Woman like me have to actually make our own cloth, and it takes hours. As you can see my shoes are also made of cloth and leather belike we have to make them our selves. We the peasants have to be careful these days because a lot of serfs and peasants have died over the years when winter comes because of the really thin clothing we have or because we don’t have enough warm blankets or fuel for the fire. It is horrible, last year my very best friend died because of the cold weather, it was a sad time for all of us.

That’s not the only way that people pass away, I have also lost many friends because of childbirth. Some learned man has said that approximately twenty percent of women die during childbirth, and five percent of infants die during delivery, and of course ten to twelve percent of the babies die in there first month of living. If we are lucky enough for a child and mother to survive, the child is usually bathed in lukewarm water and then wrapped in warm cotton or wool fabric. If they face any difficulty during the birth, then God’s bones, they  wouldn’t survive because in this small manor we don’t have a lot of medical equipment or medications.

Another difficult thing that is hard as a peasant is marriage, girls can get married as young as twelve and boys can get married as young as fourteen. The hardest part is that your parents have to choose for you, if you don’t like him but he likes you then you still have to marry him. God’s teeth, if I didn’t like the man my parents chose, I would run away for a year and a day and gain my freedom.  Life isn’t all hard work though as there are also holidays and festivals that even serfs and peasants like myself can go to and they are wondrous well. We dance, sing songs, and generally have a good time. Also we celebrate the birth and baptism of a new child, marriages of family members, and other important events. Therefore serfs and peasants have both a good and a bad life, some parts are difficult and some parts are fun but every serf wants to not do the dirty work. So I guess that’s basically my life these days. I have no more time to stand here chatting, I must see to my chores, I shall see thee anon!

Words I Used and There Meanings:

Wondrous well- Very good

Belike- Perhaps

Privy- Bathroom

Prithee- Please

I shall see thee anon- See you soon

Indeed- Really

Yon- there or those

When I started to do this project i learn that we had to learn how to not make ANY air bubbles because if we did when we put it in the oven thing it would explode. I also learned to put little rolls of clay and then score them and put slip on them so they would stick together better. I did change my plans because at first i was going to make a fairy but i found out that was going to be really hard so i changed it to a skull and then i turned out differently then i thought it was going to turn out. But i liked it. I feel good about my finished sculpture because I like the pattern and the color i put on it. This was an amazing experience, i hope we could do this again sometime.

My heavy boots crumched across the frozen snow. I panicked as my foot started to shake, it was shivering and before I knew it my foot had fallen into the cool ice water.  I was so scared. I couldn’t get up. If I made one little movement the rest of my left leg would fall in and after that my hole body. I dint know what to do no one was around to save me. “HELPP! I shouted with all my strength, the ice cracked, I couldn’t feel my foot anymore. I thought I saw a shadow of someone or a tree move. “Excuse me can you help me? I’m stuck” but all I heard was silence and the sound of wind passing though my hair as a tear came down my face. How can anything else go wrong my foot was  in the ice cold water and there was no one around, all I saw was snow and ice. All the sudden I move a little trying to get my foot out. ”CRACKK!” my hole leg had fallen in. Now I was in pain. “Crunch Crunch Crunch” there was someone coming to the rescue, it was an old man that had heard me screaming. He coulnt get any closer so me because then we would both fall in. What was he going to do…

TO BE CONTINUED !!!

At the end he got me out by getting a strong stick and bringing me to the snow. D

Some say that Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year. Whatever! Last Christmas I got a book. I mean COME ON who wants a book for Christmas. Two days later it was my birthday, December 27^th and guess what I got a calendar. Another thing that kids LOVE to get for Christmas. So I look up to my mom and say “I love getting books and calendars for my birthday and Christmas.” “I know honey!” she answers…. Like if she didn’t get my awesome sarcasm. “AHhhHHHhHH!” “ I bet all my friends got like a… a… I don’t know just something cooler” …. I look out the window and see that my neighbor Cassie got a dog for Christmas. Is she serious, she get a cute little puppy dog and I get an old sticky book?

So it was December 24^th one day until Christmas …. WHAT WILL I GET THIS TIME?????

1.) How would you feel if your home were destroyed by an earthquake or volcano?

Well first of all i would defiantly feel bad and sad, because like i won’t have a place to live and everything is broken or burnt. I would also not know were to go after that because everything is broken and maybe alot of the things that belonged to me got burnt.

2.) why is it important that the dynamis nature ( plate tectonics ) of the Earth be respected?

I think it’s important because if we didn’t respect planet Earth then the Earth would die and everyone would be dead. Because of all the pollution we put out and how we though things on the ground and stuff. If we don’t respect the Earth at all then it would be the end of  the world soon….. TAKE CARE OF EARTH!

The case of the missing DOUBLE CHEESE BIG MAC…

This kid Bob at our school really really likes McDonalds and one day there was a big accident… his double chesse big mac got lost and he swore he didn’t eat it. It was a mystery to be solved, or else you would yet in huge trouble with BIG BOB. Everyday he came to school and reminded everyone that if anyone would touch his double cheese big mac they would be in huge pain. So everyone was scared of him, even teachers. When he walked down the hallways everyone ran off to there classrooms, it was like living in a nightmare of horror… But now his big mac was missing. No one ever went to the bathroom or the library in case Bob was there, he has been in a bad mood these past few days. The next day I really had to go to the bathroom so I sneaked out of the classroom and there he was staring with his big mean dark eyes.

Then he said hello … I was scared but I answered back because it looked like the big unstoppable BOB was about to cry. The he said I was so sad because I found out that I ate my double cheese mac.

After that I was just like … “ok?” and ran like a crazy person…

WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT???

In the middle of the night, a frightening howl woke me up. I was wondering who or WHAT made that noise so I walk down stairs and tried to look for something or maybe my if my dog was awake but no he was fast asleep in his little blue blanket. I started to get scared, I was all alone, my parents were out for a party and my brother was at a sleep over. “Looks like its only you and me Bob” I whispered into my dogs ear as he fallowed me around the house. I tried to listen again and “AAUUUUU” oh no there it is again but this time I hearted the noise coming from the kitchen where my little kitten was. I dashed as fast as possible to see if Billie was ok. I tip toed into the kitchen thinking I was going to see some big bad wolf and red riding hood fighting in MY kitchen but NO it was just my stupid cat with his new stupid howling toy… STUPID CAT! You scared me!