Circumstance hates me. It's true. Believe what you will. But the opportunity of a lifetime, couldn't have come at a worse one. My village is busy, but it's boring. The same thing happens every day here, over and over, which is why my uncle's trading caravan is an excellent opportunity to do something different. But something different has already happened. Sickness. My whole village has just been struck with it, like an evil curse. Most of the men died, and the city itself will too, if we don't find some people to manage the trading posts. My father and I are some of the only men left to do any sort of work and I am extremely important to village life with our decimated number of workers. My uncle is leaving today. I'll have to decide before sunset. I really don't know how to decide. An opportunity like this almost never comes around, and probably won't again, but my village can't spare anyone. 

I'm leaving. Circumstance has changed its mind about me after all. Right before I was about to decline my uncle's offer, ten score men, women, and children rode into our village. Theirs had been destroyed by a flood and they were looking for shelter. They nearly filled our empty huts, and there are more than enough workers to go around once again. My uncle and I leave at sunset. I'm looking forward to a month of roaming the desert on camel.

During the simulation of Traders and Invaders, I was rather happy with my role of the Vandal tribe of Barbarians, but if I had to pick something else I would have like to have been an emperor that fled to Constantinople. The reason that I would have liked to have been an emperor is that while the Barbarians had enough power to overthrow Rome, they did not have enough power to attack Constantinople, and so the Byzantine Empire lasted until 1453 A.D.

The reason that I did not want to be a province, is that the Barbarian had more that enough power to overthrow multiple provinces, and many provinces did not last long. The provinces also had to convince the Romans to protect them in exchange for goods, and by that point, the Romans left them to die.

The book that I am currently reading is the original Gulliver's Travels, but I just started it and have not read more than one chapter, so I will blog about the book I just finished, Wizard's Holiday. Wizard's Holiday is the seventh book in the Young Wizard's series by Diane Duane. In the book, Nita Callahan is looking forward to her two weeks of spring break. Instead she comes home and finds the fridge completely empty. In the middle of starting a wizardry to give her access to her friend Kit's fridge, she is interrupted by her sister's senitent computer Spot. Spot is hiding, and he knows what Nita and her dad are about to find out. Darine, Nita's sister, has signed up for a cultural exchange, halfway across the galaxy. Darine is soon banned from leaving the Solar System, and Nita and Kit are sent away to the perfect world of Alaau. While Nita and Kit are away, the other end of the cultural exchange comes to Nita's house. Sker'het, a giant millipede, Fillif, a senitent tree, and Roshaun, a humanoid king from a half burnt planet far away across the galaxy.

9/11. A big event. One that changed the modern day American world. When 9/11 happened, I was just one and a half years old, too small to understand the horrors of what was going on. My mom just sat in front of the television all day, waiting to see what exactly had happened, who had perished, and who had survived. This awful event still effects us today. For example, airport security is much more strict than it has ever been before. There are millions of checkpoints, and scanners, and detectors to go through. It is now necessary to go to the airport hours before one's flight leaves. Also, the lives lost in the horrible tragedy, from the victims that perished, to the rescue workers that were killed in action, have been, and continue to be, grieved for by their friends and family. But when horrible event like 9/11 happen, America always moves on, becomes stronger and better.

 The presidential election is a big deal. It comes around every four years, and decides the main figure of our country. Many people vote for Republicans, and many vote for Democrats. In this up coming election, I care about it in itself, but not the outcome. Barack Obama has been a great president, and I think Mitt Romney can do just as great of a job. The presidential election is extremely important, but, to me, the outcome doesn't matter. I think both candidates will be able to assume the role of president with out much opposition and will do their best to protect our nation.