Anna L.

Dear Diary,

Today in Mrs. Gentile and Miss Cydylos class we are reflecting on whether or not I would like to live in Colonial Time. I don’t think I would enjoy living in Colonial Times. I wouldn’t have many rights, they have bad medicine, and a lot of work.

First, as a girl, I would not have many rights. I could not do many things, one is that I couldn’t vote and couldn’t have a role in the government no matter what I did or where I was. Also, people believed that women were only good for taking care of the children, serving food, and sewing clothes. I am in Girl Scouts, and we sew our patches on. I do not enjoy sewing and I know that I couldn’t stand being in charge of sewing, weaving cloth and making clothes almost all day long. I also wouldn't be able to do many fun competitions in many activities such as Training Day, which include races, fights, and shooting targets, in which only men could participate.

Secondly, we wouldn’t have very good medicine, since they mostly based their medicine on the stinkiest smelling things they could find, melt it, and mix it all together. Usually, the medicine would kill you or make your condition worse faster than if you didn’t take it. Alot of the cures for things were praying that everything would be okay, which usually didn’t work. The Native Americans had some of the best medicine, and they usually have those type of jobs unless they were the Doctors assistant, and even then, the Doctor probably not approve of it, but other than that, there was a slim chance of you surviving or getting better from whatever sickness you had. Also, smallpox was very common in Colonial Times, and pretty much all smallpox has been wiped off the Earth except for maybe some in a freezer in some secret Government lab for future studying.

Finally, we have much less work to do. For example, if you wanted something to eat, in this case, let’s say you wanted steak, instead of going to the supermarket and buying it, you would have to raise then butcher a cow, chop firewood for the stove or to roast it over a wood fire, and make your own forks, spoons, knives, and plates. Another reason is that if you wanted fruit or vegetables, you would have to either grow it yourself or buy it at a farmers market. If you grew it yourself, you would have to fertilize the soil, buy and plant seeds, tend to the crops until they need to be harvested, while in the mean time you have to hoe and water the plants. You might even need animals to make your own fertilizer, since that is what most colonist did.

These are just some of the reasons that I wouldn’t want to live in Colonial Times.

Yours truly,

Anna C. L.