The activities were The Mayflower 2, The Wampanoag Home site, and the 1627 Pilgrim Village I found all of them interesting and a fun. Out of the three activates I liked the Mayflower 2 the least and I liked the Wampanoag Home site and the Pilgrim Village the same.

What surprised me was how small the Mayflower 2 is. I knew it was going to be small but not that small they must really have been packed. On the Mayflower 2 we got there we met a Pilgrim who talked to us and then we went down stairs where we met a 15-year-old girl who the Carvers were taking care of. We asked her questions and she answered then we listened to a guy talking and left.

At the Wampanoag homesite there are a bunch of things going on there was a fire where they were making a canoe. Then up the hill there were four Native Americans one of them a baby they were around a fire and you could ask them questions. Half way down the hill there was a house where a person was talking about Native American culture and there was a game you could play. On the bottom of the hill there was a house that they were making and you could look into it and in the center was their garden.

At the Pilgrim village the actors were excellent. There were tons of houses inside a lot of them were people who were acting as 1627 people and they talked like they were in 1627. We meet Edward Winslow’s wife, William Bradford’s wife, and William Brewster’s oldest son and some other people. At the top of a hill were you would enter and exit the colony there was a big house where on the bottom there was basically nothing but on the top there were about 8 canons. I think it was the look out building because you could see over the whole town and it would be good for defending the colony.

At the night we were there we did activities after dinner there were four different activates. The four were activates were writing with a quill pen, getting dressed up in pilgrim clothes, playing with Pilgrim toys, and what they called C.S.I. Plymouth. In the quill writing activity you would write your name in quill pen and try to spell it in different ways or make a symbol for your name because some people could not write. In the one were you dressed up as a pilgrim they choose one boy, one girl, and then ether a boy or a girl they dressed the boy up as a grown man the girl as a lady and ether a boy or a girl as a baby. In the one where you would play with pilgrim toys you would go into a room with a bunch of Pilgrim toys and play with them. The last one is C.S.I. Plymouth you would be split into four different groups and there would be two houses side by side we got questions and we would look around and inside the houses and we would have to answer the questions. I enjoyed all of the activates and they were fun and you could learn from them.

The dinner we ate was a Pilgrim dinner. Personally I didn’t like the dinner but some kids did. In the dinner there was turkey pottage, bread, grapes and cheese, carrots in vinaigrette, and for dessert pear pie. The only things I liked was the bread and the pear pie a little, the food just wasn’t that good.

I enjoyed the trip I thought that it was interesting and fun. I learned a lot and I would recommend it to some one thinking about going.

So you get the point that they made William do basically all the work.

In his free time, which he barely ever got, he worked as a paperboy. He got $5 a week, which he was saving up to buy a soccer ball.

On his last day of school he went to work, and after he got paid he had enough money to buy the soccer ball. He sprinted as fast as he could the whole way to the store. He picked out the one he liked, bought it, and went to the park to play with it.

William had watched the travel team practice many times and picked up a lot of skills from them. This made him a good ball player and now he could actually practice those moves with his ball. He still watched their practices, but now he brought his ball. So if the coach told the team to do a move William tried to do it. He eventually started to master the moves.

One day when the team was having a practice and William was there trying to learn the moves, the coach saw him and asked if he wanted to play on the team.

William said, “Yes except my parents make me do all the work and it might be hard to get to some of the practices and games.”

“Well, maybe you could try to get all the work done if you might miss a game or a practice, but you probably will have to.”

So he accepted.

That night William got the idea that he could work as the paperboy until he had enough money to buy the equipment. Then he would quit, but wouldn’t tell his parents. When he was going out he would tell them he was going to his job as the paperboy, but really he was going to soccer practice. He did this because he knew that his parents would never let him be on the soccer team.

So for weeks and weeks William went to the practices. Finally, it was time for the season to start.

First game: “30 seconds. William gets the ball. With the game tied he beats a defender, dribbles up, and shoots, with 5 seconds he scores.”

At their next practice their coach told them that their next game was an away game. After that practice William told his coach about his situation and how his parents would never drive him to his away games. If they found out that William was on the soccer team, they’d take him off the team. William’s coach came up with a plan that he would drive William to the games in his car.

Second game: “10 seconds left. William’s team throws the ball in. It’s headed backwards towards the goal. William jumps up, he heads it in and they win!”

Last game of the season: “20 seconds to go. Will gets it with ten seconds and the game tied. He scores and they win 2 to 1! They are going to the national championship!”

Now here was a problem. How would William get to the national championship if they were in Florida? Now that night William got the idea that he could just pack his bags and go to the airport with team. William’s parents might find out that he was gone, but he would have to deal with the consequences.

Finally the day came when William’s team was going to the national championship. William got up real early, grabbed all his stuff and left the house. That way his parents would not see him leaving the house and he could get to his coach’s house on time. That way they could get to the airport.

First game of the tournament: “Arsenal 1, shooters 3.”
Game two: “Arsenal 2, Man U 4.”
Game three (win or go home game): “Arsenal 3, Barcelona 2.”

William’s team kept on winning and winning until they reached the elite eight that had some of the best soccer teams in the U.S.

Now Arsenal was on a hot streak lead by William who has ten goals in seven games. “5 seconds to go. William gets fouled. He shoots, and it’s headed by a player on his team. They score! They are going to the final four! 2, 1, 0 and they are going to championship!”

Now for the final! It’s Arsenal versus the heavily favored Chelsea in the Championship match. “It’s ten minutes into the game! They pass to William, their best player. He scores! Later Chelsea’s best player breaks away from an Arsenal defender and he just beats the goalie. Now the score is tied. It remains tied for the rest of regulation and for the whole overtime. The game goes to penalty kicks. William goes up; if he makes the shot they continue if he missed they would lose…

…William shots, he scores!

…Now William is up for the second time. This time if he makes it they will win, and if he misses it, penalty kicks would keep on going.

…He shoots…he scores and they are national champions!!!!

After a great celebration and parades, William went home. His parents had found out that his team won the national championship. They started being nice to him and never treated him badly again. William went on to be an amazing soccer player. He won many league championships and World Cups. William was always compared to Pele as the greatest soccer player of all time. And he lived happily ever after.

THE END

Until one day my father owed a debt.
I was pawned.

Sent to Lomboko ,
it was a long and hard journey but I made it.

I really didn’t like it there.
They were cruel to us and it was painful.
There is only one word to describe what it was like,
Torture.

Finally we were put on a ship.
I thought it would be better.
It was worse.

Then another ship. The Amistad.
It was long,
it was hard,
the ziz-zags of the Amistad.

We were kept in a jail.
Until one day our case went to the United States Supreme Court.
That faithful day our lawyer, John Quince Adams, argued
and argued for us until we
Won.

We were going home.