Sick.....For Real!

Today I am sick. My throat hurts so much! I was sick yesterday but I still went to school because we had a fieldtrip. We went to the Naperville Settlement. It was really fun! Everywhere we went we lined up in two lines. A boys line and a girls line. First we went to the church. At the church we had to dance, with the boys! It was torture! Everyone got the partner that they disliked the most in the whole class. It was also kind of fun. Everyone was cringing. After that we went to the Blacksmith. The girls got to sit on a bench and the guys had to stand behind us. The blacksmith was really cool. He showed us how to make a hook. After that we went to the Printshop. We had to stand the whole time. Plus I couldn't see very well. We made bookmarks there. I was standing in the corner at the end of the shop, so I was the very last person to make a bookmark. After that we had lunch. For lunch I had a chicken sandwich, a pickle, salt and vinegar potato chips, grapes, and celery soda. Everyone was so jealous. My friends were asking for the scraps of my sandwich. After we had lunch we went to this little log house. It was a temporary home for settlers before they could build a bigger house. At the log house we carried empty buckets with this special wood slab that fit over our shoulders. Then we grinded corn. After that we we went inside of the log house. It was as small as my brother's bedroom. We looked at the upstairs room that the children slept in. It was a wooden floor with animal fur on the floor. Not so comfy. After that we went to the school house. It was pretty fun. We had a mini lesson. And then we went to a House to do "chores". The girls went inside to make butter. The boys stayed outside and cut a piece of a log. Us girls then had to serve the butter we had made on crackers to the boys, or how the woman called them "Gentlemen". We had to serve the "gentlemen" first, and then the ladies. Then the servers had some crackers. The ladies got first dibs on seconds. Then we left Naperville Settlement. We had to Drive an Hour to Get back to our school. My friends and I were trying to fall asleep on the bus. It didn't work. But as a result we were very, very tired when we were back at school.