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The MGM movie of The Wizard of Oz has been a classic movie for ages.  But what about the book?  Originally written by L. Frank Boum it is a pure American fairytale of lands you could only fly to in a house.  But a movie can never be exactly like a book (e.g. Alice in wonderland.)  So considering the all the factors of imagination and such the movie is one way that is not terrible to adapt the book.  But in the movie one of the biggest differences is that the shoes of the witch of the east are red while the shoes in the book are silver that is ok I think because the emphasis of color is important to a movie.  One of the things that I don’t like is that in the movie the whole Land of Oz is a dream in the books there actually is a cyclone.  In the book Dorothy goes to Oz!   Also in the poppy field the field mice help them not in the movie.   Other wise the movie is good, for a movie.

I am back from the Plimoth trip and I had a great time and it was so much better than I had expected.

We got off the bus and immediately started doing activities. First we went on a tour of the actual place where the village was and saw the site of Bradfords, Billingtons and Brewsters house. Then we walked up burial hill and back down again and saw Plimoth rock!

After that we got to go onto an almost exact copy of the Mayflower. On it there were people who acted as the people on the Mayflower would have. We got to go to the masters cabin and see how the sailors would steer the boat and change the sails.

After that we went to a barn and saw little baby ducks and goats.

Then we went to the Wampanoag homesite and saw the Native Americans: Burning a canoe, cooking and just talking about their history. These people are not like the ones on the Mayflower. These people do not pretend they really are just regular people preserving family traditions, so you can ask them about life in the sixteenth century and about their life today.

It surprised me that there were actual houses not exhibits like last year when we went to Waterloo Village. These houses you could actually go inside and sit down to listen to the people talk.

In one of the houses you just went inside. In the other big house there was someone talking. It was very interesting.

In that house there was a little game that I played, it goes like this: there are five pieces in the bowl; one side of the piece is white and the other side black. There are twelve sticks, each person starts with six sticks. You hit the bowl down three times. Depending on which side the pieces land on you take one or two sticks. The game is a lot of fun and they had it in the house and I played it.

Next we had dinner, it was normal with a big twist. It was Pilgrim style!

Menu for a Pilgrim style Dinner

Turkey Pottage

Buttered carrots with salt and pepper

Cheese, Grapes and Prunes

Bread and butter

Pear tart

The pilgrims ate with their hands and had no forks.

After dinner we did some evening activities. First we got to play some Pilgrim games like bowling and bubbles! After that we looked in 2 Pilgrim houses and tried to figure out how many people lived in each house. Then we wrote with quill pens and after that some people got to dress up as pilgrims. Then it was tome to go to sleep. The next day we packed our things and went to breakfast, bagels and Frosted Flakes. After that we played some games (witch I thought were very boring), while some classes went into the gift shop. Finally it was our turn to go into the gift shop. I got a Native American arrow. After that we waited in the place where we ate for the other people to watch a movie.

After the movie we went to the sixteen-twenty-seven village and it started to drizzle. One Pilgrim man told us all about the militia and how his gun worked. We also met Francis Billington who almost blew up the Mayflower. We saw lots of animals: goats and sheep even cows!

Then we went in for lunch and we had a pizza party!!!!!!!!!! The only bad thing about the pizza party was that I really did not like the pizza. But they had lemonade and cookies and I had some. Then it was time to head home. We got on the bus for the five hour ride home.