Journal Entry 19: Do the Right Thing :)

Barbara Frietchie would be considered a hero because she was really loyal to her country for picking up the Union flag that the men hauled down and she place it on her window, even though she might have been shot by Stonewall Jackson for doing such a thing. Stonewall Jackson eventually felt ashamed of himself when he saw an old lady willing to risk her life for an Union flag, while he was going to destroy it. Harriet Tubman is also considered a hero too because she was really brave for leading the slaves to freedom, even though she would be a traitor to the slaves' owner. She is also brave because she is willing to risk her life for the slaves just to let them know what freedom feels like, although the slaves that were running away had to try hard to gain freedom and sometimes they wanted to give up, but Harriet Tubman would just tell them successful stories about other slaves running away, so that they would continue their escape and not give up.

Journal Entry 18: Setting :)

Settings is a location, time and everything which a story takes place in. Settings have a strong effect on me. Once when I went to Finland I was freezing to death because I thought it was going to be hot there at spring but it turned out being pretty cold. Well I am not really sure what place is a happy and safe place for me, but if I really had to choose one I would consider my home a happy and safe place. I am suppose to use my 5 senses to describe my happy and safe place but I am not sure how to explain it so I will just describe it in a totally simple way. My home looks good, smells good, sounds good, taste good, and feels good. It looks good because it is somehow awesome. It smells and taste good because my home is made out of cookies and candies. Okay...I was joking that my home was made out of cookies and candies but still my home is a awesome place for sure, which I do not know how to describe it out because it is way too awesome to describe out.

Journal Entry 17: My Hero :)

I am not really sure who is my hero and I do not really think I have one but if I really had to choose a hero of mines, I would choose Michelle Kwan. Michelle Kwan was born in July 7, 1980 and she is a chinese american figure skater. She got the world champion award thingy five times, olympic award thingy two times, and nine times U.S. olympic award thingy. I admire her because she made me interested in ice skating when I was about to give up ice skating. I do not know her personally. I just saw her on the television.

Journal Entry 16: What is a Hero? :)

A hero is this brave person that does good deeds and help others, even if it was a crazy person on the street. I think that Harriet Tubman is a hero to slaves because she was willing to risk her life to lead the slaves to freedom just to let them know what freedom feels like, which is like helping the slaves a lot. Barbara Frietchie is also a hero because Barbra Frietchie was brave enough to stand up to Stonewall Jackson and put the union flag up on her window even though she was not suppose to do that because Stonewall Jackson might kill her (by that I mean shoot her) but it turns out that Stonewall Jackson respected her to do such a thing. Heros have a lot of stuff in common because heros mostly do stuff that are not suppose to be done but it turns out to be that what they are doing is very brave. For example, Harriet Tubman helped the slaves escaped but she is a traitor to the slaves owner.

Journal Entry 15: Leaving Everything Behind :)

In the past there were people that had to leave everything precious to them behind, which were the stuff that meant a lot to them and they loved it a lot,  just like the slaves that Harriet Tubman lead to freedom, they also left things behind that were precious to them such as their daily amount of food, shelter and maybe even some people that meant a lot to them (maybe they met them at the slavery thingy). There was once where I had to move to a new place and I had to leave far far away my friends which felt sort of sad because we known each other for a long time like about seven years. I also had to get use to the new things at the new place which could not compare to my old things and I missed my old things a lot.

Journal Entry 14: Why Risk Your Life? :)

Harriet Tubman is a free woman but she would risk her life to lead other people to freedom because Tubman wants the fugitives to know how freedom feels like. Tubman will gain fame because she helps the slaves escape, like right now Harriet Tubman is famous because we know about her but the bad thing is that she will be a traitor for the slave owners. Well if someone really needed my help, I would be willing to help that person but only if the thing I should help is possible to do, not like someone says "Hey Ting, help me kill a person" then I will definitely not help that person because that is impossible to do. If that person is someone I hate then I would not help that person. If I help someone I think maybe karma will happen (helping someone and someone help you back).

Journal Entry 13: Freedom Fighter :)

Everything was going well in my life but the problem is that slavery is widely practiced in my country, I am a freedom lover and I wanted to help the slaves escape from slavery. I think that slavery is not fair. It is not fair because the slaves' owner are just to lazy to do stuff(housework or something like that, maybe even homework)themselves, so they just kidnap people and tell them to do stuff for them or else they get beaten up or killed. Helping slaves escape is illegal and if you help slaves escape you might be killed. One day there was a group of people that asked me if I want to help slaves escape.I knew that it was dangerous to help slaves but since I am a freedom lover I agreed to join. We helped alot of slaves escape but some of the people in the group got caught and were killed. Now there were only two people left in the group, me and the other person. Later on we both got caught and were killed.

Journal Entry 12: To Be a Slave :)

I woke up one day and found out that my family and I were sold into slavery. My family and I were sold to different slavery, we were seperated. There were a lot of slaves that were asians, just like me. All the slaves had to carry a bunch heavy rocks everyday and we got only a teeny weeny piece of bread and a drop of water for every meal. I got hungry very often and I did not have energy to work. After weeks of being a slave I have decided to escape from that freaky place. The good things about escaping is that if I do not get caught I will have a good life (atleast a life that is better than having a slave life) and I get to be free from slavery but the bad things are that if I get caught I might be sent back and have to continue being a slave or maybe even worser, I get killed. I was planning to escape the next day and go with another person that could guide me. I found a person that knew the way out of this slavery and we escaped together. The escape was successful and I had a happy life.

Journal Entry 11: More Freedom :)

In this society I think that I can do stuff such as watching television, playing computer, going to places I want, such as shopping malls, theaters or concerts, I can eat junk food when I want to and I can sleep at anytime I want without anyone caring. The things I can not do in this society until I am at a certain age is that I can not vote, I can not drive, I can not drink alcohol, and I can not smoke. In this society we also can not kill people if we feel like it and we can not steal stuffs from stores either. For me I think that this is a pretty free society because mostly there are not stuff I want to do, but I can not do. And mostly everything I want to do, I can do it.

Journal Entry 10: For the Sake of Freedom :)

In my way of saying freedom is that freedom is like having the rights to do stuff without people caring but at least it has to be appropriate, not like you have the rights to kill people or something like that. It also means to me of having your own decision of doing stuffs which I think is pretty important. For me I think that my freedom is normal. My parents do let me have a chance of deciding my own stuff but sometimes they do have to decide what is right and best for me. I never really had my things taken away from my parents before or been ''time-outed'' or something like that. Anyways I think that freedom is pretty important to many people, mostly kids because a lot of kids have their freedom taken away by their parents. If people had their freedom taken away they might fight for their freedom to get it back. I am not really sure what I would be willing to do to protect my freedom, since I did not really experience having my freedom taken away before.

Journal Entry 9: If You Were Billy :)

I just arrived in Bath for a business trip. My boss, Mr. Greenslade said that I should find my own lodging to stay in. I wasn't sure if I should stay in the pub or the boardinghouse, so I asked people for advice. A lot of people said that the pub had more people than the boardinghouse so I decided to stay in a pub since I went to pubs more often than boardinghouses. Although the pub price was more expensive than the boardinghouse price. Some people mentioned that in the boardinghouse there is this freaky landlady that begs people to drink tea with her so I think it is better to stay in the pub where it sounds less freaky. There were a lot of people in the pub. I made a lot of new friends in the pub that night. My new friends and me party all night long and drank a lot of beer. We had a lot of fun and I enjoyed the stay at the pub.

Journal Entry 8: The End? :)

Suddenly some ninjas came jumping and screaming in the boardinghouse trying to save Billy from the landlady. Billy was really confused, he did not know what was happening. The ninjas told Billy that the landlady is an evil witch that wanted to kill Billy and preserve him just like her pets. The landlady took out her magicwand and said "Bipidibopidi BOO" and the ninjas turned into tiny little ants. So eventually Billy could not escape from the landlady since the ninjas turned into tiny little ants and they could not help Billy anymore. Billy was was going crazy, he was running around in circles screaming for help. He was really scared of the landlady because the landlady kept walking closer and closer to Billy. Billy was still running around in cirlces screaming for help. The landlady took out her magicwand and said "Bipidibopidi BOO" Billy started too feel weird, Billy fell to the ground and he was dead. So it turns out that Billy got preserved like her pets and he was place right next to Mr. Temple and Mr. Mulholland, to let other customers see that its a welcoming place with lots of people.