Alec

== "Thump"! Yaaaaaaaaa! I hate this journey on this boat. By the way my name is Alexander. I was coming to this new world because of my religion. We were not allowed to practice our religion back at England. So a group of us, about 102, came in this merchant ship named the Mayflower. It was a rough journey. My brother Lucas died of scurvey. He died in his sleep. ==

 
==When I got off the Mayflower. My friends and I, Samuel and Daniel, just looked around at the strange new place. I had a feeling of excitement but also a feeling of fear because I did not know what was going to happpen in this strange place. ==


==Shortly after that, we started to unload all of the things off the ship. I took my riffle, my blacksmithing equipment, and my clothes and found a spot where we started building our settlment. Before I started to build.... I found a spot to bury my dead brother, Lucas. Lance, my mother and my father, my close friends attended the burial. It was sad to see my brother being buried in this unknown place. Many of the men including me started to build the palisade for our settlment. The older boys and some of the women started to build the houses for the settlment. After that, the men hunted waterfowl for supper. The next few days it was getting cold. I had forgot that Novmber was nearing to an end and that Decmber was about to begin. I was visiting the sementary usually. Besides that, my freinds and I kept on working on the settlement. My hands were covered with blisters from hauling wood with my bare hands. Many times I would have to go to the spring to nub my hands with the cold water. Many children were whinning becuase they had nothing to do ecept to work and my gosh it was Loud!I was exasted from all the hard work I did. == =="Horray," I said. We had just finished building the settlement. It took about a week to finish building the settlement. I live with my <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">older brother Lance. He is 37 years old. My parents are still alive but they live on the other side of the settlment. I vist them often. I was so glad when winter was over. While I was hunting with my friends in early spring, a strange man appeared. His skin was tannish. We backed away a little bit. Then he spoke what sounded like a bit of English. ==

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==<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I said, "We are Pilgrims and we come from a land called England and we are struggling for survival." I also said, ==

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==<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The strange person said, "My name is Squanto. I live close to this place and you said that you need food. Well there is this plant that is easy to grow. Come over here and I will show it to you." I was happy that this man named Squanto was going to show us a new food that we could eat. When he showed us this plant, I was surprised at what it looked like. It had a long green stem with a green bundle at the top. When you tore it apart a yellow, bumpy food appears on the top of the long green stem. We showed this food to our leader Govener Willam Bradford. He was pleased with this new food. He told us to get the seeds of this crop. We quickly started to plant this crop. ==

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==<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Our leader told us that we were going to have a feast of thanks to our God for a successful harvest and the Wampanoag people were coming to the feast too!!! I was happy that they were coming to the feast. Without them we would be proply dead. Before the day the Wampanoag people came, Samuel and I went hunting.We were walking through the woods and then I saw a male deer and boy did it look strong and fierce. So I took aim at the deer and............. __BAM__. A shot right in the head. Samuel was impressed with my shot. I ran right up to my kill and Samuel and I carried the deer back to the women who cooked the deer. After we did that Samuel and I went back to blacksmithing shop only to find Lance and Daniel there wating for me (Lance is also a blacksmith).He told me that he needed me to fix his axe and I said okay. When I fineshed it, I told him that he owed me 10 coins. He said okay and pulled out 10 coins from his pockect and gave them to me. ==

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==<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">"Here comes the Wampanoag people," one man said. I quickly went to the entrance of the settlment. I could see in the distance.....the Wampanoag! Then I ran back to my cabin to change into my nice clothes. Lance and I went outside to greet the Wampanoag people. Then Samuel, Daniel, Lance, some of the Wampanoag hunters, and I went hunting. We had a succesful hunt. I shot 2 rabbits. Then we brought all the meat to the women who were going to cook the meat and food. Then a few hours later we all began to feast. Govener Willam Bradford offered me a invatation to sit a the high table! I gladly said yes to the invitation. I had to fix many things for Braford and he owed me, so I guess that he invited me to the high table because he thought it would cover his debt to me but no he still owed me a few coins. I sure ate a lot. I entered the shooting competition. There were many men at the competition but the real competition was between me and Samuel. We both won in 2 competitions. At the end of the day I was exhausted. I went to my house and as I was laying down on my bed I remembered when we first came to this place and how much work we put in to building this settlement and some people died for our religion. I felt proud for what I accomplished and how I wish that the people that died in this journey that they might see what we accomplished.==

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