Mackenzie was assigned a paragraph about being transported from the Middle Ages to modern times. SHe had to observe the modern customs, people and interactions.
Life in a Foreign Land
I have arrived at a vast manor home and am searching the grounds for a servant’s entrance. While searching, I come across a spacious pond with no fish and am naturally suspicious. I knock on the door and the son of the manor answers, wearing a red cape. He must be a noble for no simple commoner wears red or purple. I bow, the boy seems surprised. I glance over at another young boy seated at a stupendous plank of carved wood, likely an instrument for it is making the most beautiful music. Could he be a minstrel? No, he was quite young, too young to have had the proper training. A young girl approaches him, but she is wearing breeches, wait, breeches ? Breeches are for lads not noble ladies. She is also wearing a purple cloak. She is noble but I notice that she is alone carrying things for herself. That is not right! I offer my help but she strongly refuses and seats herself on the floor and starts to write. Is she a scribe? No, she is noble, I am certain. This is confusing. She is drawing pictures with sharpened sticks and then coloring them with paint sticks. This is so strange. I must have landed in a foreign land. This great estate is overwhelming. I think I shall be leaving now.
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