Walkabout and Rabbit Proof Fence

This week we watched a movie called Rabbit Proof Fence, it is about three girls, Molly, Gracie, and Daisy, who are half-castes which mean they are half white half aboriginal. They are forced to go with these white people to a camp for half-castes and are forced to learn English and become sex slaves for white men. Molly is the oldest and she is fourteen, so she takes care of Gracie and Daisy thought the whole journey back to their home. Molly finds the fence and takes it all the way back home but on the way Gracie was told her mom is in a town not to far and she could get there by train. Molly knew it was a trick but Gracie insisted on going to see her mom. She was found on a bench and was captured and brought back to the camp. Molly and Daisy got back to their village safe and sounds though. They lived there for a couple years and were captured again but Molly escaped again. Her youngest daughter is the only one who didn't make it back after her second time being there.

We also read a book called Walkabout it's about these two children whose plane crashes in the deserts in Australia and they have to survive on anything they can use. They meet and aboriginal boy who they call the "bush boy" and he teaches them how to get food, water, make a fire, and build a shelter. He teaches the younger boy, Peter, all the ways to survive that the aboriginal knows. He notices that Peter comes down with a cold and the bush boy thinks he's going to die from it. The bush boy ends up getting Peters cold and ends up getting very ill from it. He sits under a tree until he finally dies. But he told Peter, before her died, that he just had to make it over the hills and then he will make it to where his uncle is. So he and his sister, Mary, go through the mountains and we assume they make it to their uncle's house.

Halloween Blog

Every Halloween me and my friend Sophie go our trick-or-treating together and get a ton of candy from our neighbors.  We usually go to at least twelve blocks and sometimes more. This year we went as a broken heart. My half of the heart said”BEST”, and Sophie’s half said “FRIENDS”. Every house we went to the people at the door said “Oh you girls are so cute”! Sophie and I thought we had the best costumes out of anybody, even the little children dressed as Scooby-Doo, Buzz Light Year, Elmo, and a little black cat. We also saw some pretty weird costumes like these four girls wearing all black and bright tutus, and that wasn’t even the worst part! Their “friend” was on a leash! I thought that was really weird and Sophie agreed too.

We followed the strange leash girls to the next house where we heard them scream “She gives out cotton candy!” and Sophie and I ran to the door. We had about six people in front of us and we waited eagerly to get our cotton candy so we could eat it later on. Sophie and I counted the people in front of us and found out that there were only three more people a head of us. We got so excited, but just as we were about to scream “YES!” the lady in the house said “There are only three bags of cotton candy left.” When we got to the door there was no more cotton candy left and we got Carmel corn instead. We took a bit of it and spit it right back out because it tasted nasty. I felt bad because Sophie had never had Carmel corn before and I don’t think she ever will again because that shows bad this Carmel corn was.

Another house we went to had a creepy old lady inside who screamed “hello” when we arrived at her door. She said “oh you guys are so cute what are you going as”? Sophie and I confused out of our minds said “a heart.” The lady said “hello” again and gave me and Sophie the candy, but as she did she started to sing some random song to us. So we turned around and left her porch but you could hear her call out one last time “hello pink boys” to us. What a Halloween we had this year!