My sister’s wedding is coming up and I am trying to come up with what to wear. I am thinking about asking Dadi to buy me this embroidered silver shahtoosh I saw at the market. It is very beautiful. After all, he did sell Guluband yesterday. In my opinion Guluband is worth a thousand shahtooshes. If he refuses to buy me that I will either ask Mama to make me something pretty or I will wear my regular black chador. I may even try to make my own outfit. I am very happy for my sister and I want to look good for her. I better make my clothes look professional. Oh, how I can’t wait for the henna ceremony. Her skin will look even more beautiful with turmeric rubbed in. I will miss her when she moves in with Hamir. My clothes will look spot on so that she will see how happy I am for her. If I find sewing my outfit is too hard, I will ask Dadi to take me back to the market where I saw the shahtoosh in the first place. Maybe I will be able to find a cheaper alternative… Yes! I will do just that! Right after I am done writing this I will ask him to take me to the market to find the perfect outfit for Phulan’s wedding! This is a general idea of what I will want to wear.

(Trimmed around shoulders)

Isn’t it lovely? I hope Phulan and Hamir live happily together and have a bunch of sons.

This is me.

In case you do not know, chapatis is a flatbread that’s recipe has been passed down throughout generations of my family. Here is my family recipe and I hope you enjoy.

The first thing you have to do is go out to the field and gather some wheat.

After you get the wheat come back inside your hut and grind it with your hands or a stone. This will create flour.

Then what you will want to do is take your flour (preferably around two cups) and put it into a bowl.

Next you want to take the salt and the olive oil that your dadi got from the market yesterday.

After that you want to mix in a little salt into your flour.

Then you want to boil a pot of hot water onto the fire.

Next you want to slowly pour in the hot water and olive oil.

Then you want to knead it with your hands to make it elastic but not sticky.

After that you want to put it on the pan in thin circles. Cook until the underside has brown spots, about 30 seconds, then flip and cook on the other side.

Now you have made chapatis! Enjoy it with your family. It is quite yummy!

Here is a drawing of me. 

I like this piece because it is about my first time surfing. That memory is very special to me and I feel like this piece explains why it was so special. I am proud of it because I feel like it is very well written and interesting. Even for me, and I have experienced it in real life.

Here it is.

Those were two photos of a video game that we have been playing in the Arms and Armour guild. The video game is called Total War: Medieval 2. It is a medieval real time strategy game that is completely accurate in the methods of warfare. You can even watch actual sieges that took place in the medieval era in great detail. It is teaching us a lot about medieval war strategies and history. It is also really fun. We have been competing against each other in 1v1’s and 2v2’s. That is what we have been doing in my Medieval guild.

When we went to the cloisters museum we saw really cool works of art. One of the coolest things I saw was Jesus hanging on a cross that was real size that was hanging on chains suspended 30 feet in the air. I could not find my artifact that I picked out online, but it was still fun looking for it! I learned a lot about European history and religion.

I am proud of how I remembered a moment in my life and wrote about it. At first the memory was kind of blurry but as I started to put words  onto the paper it all sort of came together in my mind. It was challenging to make my thanksgiving piece as interesting and exciting as possible without turning it into a fiction piece. Here it is.

We annotated the book Beowulf as we read it. We would underline important pieces of information, circle vocabulary words and look them up. In the end we would write a chapter summary. If we wanted to ask a question in the book we would point an arrow towards the part we have a question about and write the question above the arrow.

Annotating is important because if you have any assignments or anything of the sort you can know what happens in each chapter because of the chapter summary. You will also expand your vocabulary by circling words you don’t know. If you underlined things you could bring it up in a discussion about the chapter.

I think that I did a really good job on my chapter summaries because they are very clear and detailed. I want to improve on defining my vocabulary. I would circle them, but sometimes for some reason I skipped the dictionary search.