John Cooke's Journal

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10/12/1621/

  This place is horrible to live in. The New England coast is cold. We can barley plant anything. I'm sure that if we didn't send fish, wood, and so on to England we would die! A couple days ago we met a tall Indian named "Samoset."

  Later he came with many more Indians and a man with great power "Massasoit."There was a man who knew very well English we named"Squanto." Right now he's being taken to England. Earlier today "John Carver" our governor took Massasoit to his home to make a peace treaty.

  Squanto was a very useful tool of god. He taught us how to plant corn and to fish. It's a shame that he has to leave to England.

10/20/1621/

  After our bountiful harvest we invited the Indians for a great feast that will last for who knows how long. We're going to call it the 1621 Harvest Celebration. I hope we have harvest's like this all the time.

 

10/24/1621/

  We had elected "William Bradford new governor. For a strange reason John Carver died mysteriously. He made a record of people who arrived on the next ship "Fortune." The rest of my family came on that ship. I was very happy.    

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1/2/1630/

  Today is horrible. A bunch of Puritans copied our idea and came to New England. I bet I can't throw a stone without hitting a puritan .  The puritans think that they're always right. They hate Quakers. I think they should still respect the people of different fate even if they are dead wrong. But John Winthrop said to us all "We must consider that we shall be as a city on a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us." For a reason I have no idea why they brought a charter from King Charles.

 

1/3/1630/

The charter is giving us a bunch of new rules making life here so much harder. For reasons I don't know they look down on us. I think it's because they want to change the churches. I wonder why they pretend they're perfect?  I mean we did run away from England but look at what they did.

1/4/1630/

  I gotta say there must be hundreds of puritans here. Although complaining doesn't get me anywhere. At least it's better than having people who expect you to go to their church. It's alright that the puritans are reminding me it could be worse.

 Well the light is leaving I should retire.

  

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11/6/1620

 I'm going to have to leave Holland with my father and go to the New World. I'll miss my friends, mother, and sisters. Although I do have a good feeling about a new place to live. My father says in our new home we can practice our own religion. The church of England is so stubborn with other religions we had to go to Holland, and now we're going to the New world. The crew of the ship is going to follow the map of one of the first people to come. "John Smith." The map looks pretty old but promising.
 
 Dad says that we will be happier in the new land and I hope that he is right. I already miss my home in Leiden, Holland and the ship had just left the dock. My old home is soon to become a fading memory as the sight of it fades in the mist. Right now this trip clearly isn't worth it.    
  
 My living space is aggravatingly small.  I can't even go on the dock and breath air that isn't soaked in seawater.  I feel so trapped down here with the ever rotting stench of the sea. My father has just told me that there are 100 other people on the ship! I'm surprised that 102 people can fit on this ship.
    
 I did also learn that there are some interesting people here. I met a man with the same name as me called John Alden. He is related to the master of the ship Christopher Jones. The other john is the cooper of the ship. I had also met Mary Chilton and she told me that her father was hit in the head with a rock and is in desperate need of medical attention.She says that a year ago she, her sister, and father were caught in an anti armination riot and then and there was where her dad got hit. She's about my age also. The last person I met was Francis Eaton. All his siblings were killed except for his brother when a disease was spread throughout his home. He works as a home carpenter. He has a son named Samuel and a wife named Sarah. That's all the people I met today, and I think that the sun has about left.

      

Columbus log Chp. 16

Columbus log Chp. 16

 Captains log October 9th
 This was a hard day the men I sail with wanted to stop sailing. It almost put an end to my dream. I would have to say good bye to the sea air, the seagulls, and the waves. I had to tell those people they could kill me if we didn't see land in three days.

  
  Captains log October 12th
 I had figured that I would die that day I would say goodbye to my adventure and life. I was sad until I heard someone shouting "Tierra" which in English means land! I was saved. I named the new land we stopped on "San Salvador" as a gift to god because it means holy savior. Later that day I learned something odd. I wasn't in China! I figured I must be in an island in the indies.

 

  Captains log October 13th
 It's strange here how the Indians don't understand Arabic, but I will not complain. It doesn't bother me that much. The Indians here are very nice they gave us these wonderful birds and amazing cotton thread. All they wanted in return was beads. The Indians then took me to a place where they wear gold! They have a very strange custom of setting fire to herbs and putting them in their mouths. It is a very odd habit of the people.    

Seth's Paleolithic Snapshot

Seth's Paleolithic Snapshot

 

  I can  only  imagine  being  a  person  crossing  Beringia.  I  bet  my  family  would  be  exited  not  to  see ice  everywhere.
  There  would  be  a  clear  river  at  my  side  and   many  flowers   and  plants  in  every  direction.  There    would  be  an  incredibly  warm   sun  in  the  sky  without  a  cloud  to  be  seen.  There  would  be  many animals.  Probably  five  I  could  see  right  away.  I  could  tell  that  every  night  we  would  probably  have enough  for  a  feast. 

Backpacking Memories

 On my class's backpacking trip I saw some amazing sites. Here's two of them. On the backpacking trip a really cool site was the campsite maybe half of the thrill was seeing a rest stop after six miles. But the rest of it was seeing the campsite from this hillside I was standing on. The reed leaves and branches were trying to block the view, but I still got a really good look at it. There was a stream there too. with rocks where we were camping on one side and the forest where we were on the other. I was also kind of surprised how we were going to camp on rocks. That scene was nice because if I turned my head a little It almost looked like that stream, rocks, and forest would go on forever.
 Another great site was at the other end of the trail. It was a bridge leading to the parking lot where all the cars that took us were. The thing that connected the trail and parking lot was a wooden bridge that was high over a deep trench. It was like one you would see in the infantry except it had too many plants in it. It also didn't have any war supplies in it. I might have just been happy to see it because I was carrying a maybe five pound backpack for six and a half miles, but it was still a good site.     

Behind The Misfits

Behind The Misfits

 
  James Howe wrote the book The Misfits in 2001, and now in 2009 you can still remember it now though. This book will take place in Paintbrush Falls, New York from the view of seventh grader Bobby Goodspeed. Inthis book you will find a lot of comedy, romance, and a lot of drama. This book is a really nice fiction.
  This book's main characters are Bobby Goodspeed a chunky nice kid, Skeezie Tookis an X convict, Joe Brown is their gay friend, and Addie Carle the smart and tall girl. The four friends call themselves the gang of five even though there are only four of them. The Gang of five's first problem is when addie doesn't want to do the pledge of allegiance in their teacher Ms. Wyman's class because she thinks that not everyone gets freedom. So addie decides to bring it up in the gangs "forum" at the candy kitchen. Their forum ends with them asking a cool kid from a different race to help them run for class president. Bobby likes a girl in his art class, but thinks that she likes his friend joe. Bobby also has a problem at his work in Awkworth and Ames clothing store. I won't go any further than that because I want you to read the book.
 This book can really entertain. Mainly because of the kids being so different yet so similar. In this book something is always happening. Another thing that really entertains is the romance with some of the kids. A lot of them will get a seventh grade love in this book. the author stuffed a lot of hope inthe kids that are in this book, it was suprising whether or not the kids hope came through for them. James Howe certainly painted a picture in this book. It was great how they created freedom in there unforgiving school.
 This book was really good because of all the conflict and problem solving. I hope that a lot of people will read this book. To find out the spectacular end to the book. If you don't want to read it let me tell you this to influence you to do it. Will their party win the election? Will bobby get the girl? Will the misfits stop being misfits?.......Are you reading yet?