Pageant Planning Document
My name is Henry Gilbert II. I am 13 years of age. I am from Kummavuopio, Sweden. Me English is bad. I am learning it. I want be a stonemason like my grandfather before me.
I am going to be like him no matter what. Even though my dad and mom died by starving to death in a local bakery. I still keep up my dream. My leg is also filled with pain. I need walking staff.
I will tell story of how leg got hurt.
One day I playing in woods. I play with friend/sister Helen. Since my family died, I live with her family. We play spel av de dold, I heard you folks call it hidden seek. Anyway, Helen was seeker, and I was hider. I went far into… woods. I see wolf. It jump at me. Its eyes as red as an angry sunset. I whack stick at it and it gets mad. I flee for my life, knowing that the wolf will overrun me. I grab branch and try to pull myself up. Then wolf bite my leg! I scream and kick, but it did know good. For it was Helen who had saved me. She through rock at it eyes and it let go of me. It run away. I get same stick that I whacked the wolf, and put feather on top. It was my walking staff. That is story of how leg got hurt.
Unfortunately not all stories have a happy ending. Helen moved away to a village near Muotkatakka. I never seen her anymore.
So then they sent me to other family, and now I live with Sara, Joseph, and Peter. They all nice people. My day feels short. I wake up and bathe. Then I have breakfast. After breakfast I do chores, not very hard, but long. If I finish fast, I play games. Then Dinner. Then if anymore chores are need, I do them. Then free time, where I play games. Then Supper. Then Bed time.
I just learned that I am being sent out of from my new family and to be an apprentice to build the Carlingford castle in Ireland. The best news it that I am working with Dimitry. Dimitry is a 15 year old kid from Moscow Russia. He’s Dad, eaten by bear. He’s brothers, all eaten by bear.
When I go to Carlingford, I want build wall. Granddaddy build wall, he did well. I want to build wall. I will place the stone on top of mixture. Then I will put butis stone on top of stones.
But now I need to go, Dad is calling me.
My Job is a Wall builder.
I put a stone called the butis on two other stones and use a mix to hold it together.
I am a wall builder and wall builder’s are important because . . .Without them there is no wall.
To do this work, I use the following kinds of tools:
A trowel and bucket. So do you also do the cutting and shaping of the stone?
Some other related and interesting facts about building cities, castles, churches and/or mosques that I plan to share with visitors to our guild:
Cathedrals could take up to 80 years to build. Castles only took 10-15 years, sometimes lower.
Castles mostly wouldn’t be symmetrical so it would be harder for attachers to get in.
There is an inner wall that usually connected four towers.
There is also an outer wall that keeps people out.
When visitors visit me in the guild this is what I plan to do doing as a way to show them about my work:
I have two stones and I put a butis stone on top of two stones with a mixer thing that they use. Check out this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gu46zGuOqk about 4:30 minutes in)
In order to do this, I’ll need to create the following materials:
3 foam stones, A mix with water, Paint. A trowel, and a bucket.
For my costume, I plan to . . .
Have a tunic with brown pants, a leather hat, and boots.