Mythology Crazy!

               Hello my beautiful readers, I am SO SORRY for not posting for so long!!! Busy life I guess :) But hey, a LOT has happened lately! I am having a sleepover with my friend Nat (that's her nickname, not her real one lol) and we are partners for our (fanfare sounds please!)...

MYTHOLOGY UNIT!!!

Yay, I am so excited! However, my teacher knows that Nat and I are both Greek mythology freaks, so...we are doing Norse mythology instead! We got to make a list of our top ten choices of person (god, goddess, monster, etc.) and our teacher chose for us out of the list. Nat and I are Sif and Freya! Nat is Freya, the Norse goddess of love, beauty, and war (lol) and I am Sif, the goddess of grain, and the owner of the most beautiful hair ever, as well as being Thor's wife. Everyone else is doing Greek people, but two boys who are my enemies are being Norse dudes. Know how I said I was Thor's wife? Guess what. My nemesis is Thor. 

RAR!!!!! I was so mad I turned purple when I first found out!

Anyway, basically what the unit is about is we get our character, write a script with our partner, and we get to dress up as our person and preform outside with snacks!!! yay!!!!!

There is a painting of Sif. If you want to see how me and Nat's script is going so far (still waiting for corrections from our teacher Mrs. H.) click read more!

Cool Mythology Pics My Friend Sent Me

               Hello! Before you look at any of these, I want you to know that I did not take these pictures,but saved them into a file on my computer to make them mine. Therefore, I did not post the image locations/URLs. Here they are...
Thank you for the pix, L! Best friends forever!

                                                                             

Mythology: How Was the Trojan War Caused?

                           Hello! Here I am, sitting in front of my new laptop typing up this post, sucking on a mango lollipop and doing nothing other than that. Anyway, before I was a complete mythology expert, I wondered why the Trojan War happened. Well, now that I know, I'd like to share it with you. 


           It all began at a wedding, and every Olympian had been invited, except for one: Eris, goddess of discord. In rage that she had not been invited, she rolled a glimmering golden apple down the aisle with a note attached reading," For the most beautiful." Hera, Aphrodite, and Athena all claimed that the apple was for them, and their fight became a contest. Paris, prince of Troy, was to judge. Aphrodite bribed him to declare her the winner by promising him the perfect wife. Paris fell for it.


                      So Aphrodite made him irresistible to Helen, the beautiful wife of Menelaus, King of Sparta, and he kidnapped her late at night. When Menelaus found out, he sent hundreds of Greek warriors to get Helen back...and that's how the Trojan War began!

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Travels of Odysseus: A Board Game I Made Myself

                 Hey there! Last month, I created a board game out of posterboard and named it "Travels of Odysseus" because the object of it is to pretend you're the Greek hero Odysseus coming home from the Trojan War and facing all sorts of dangers. You start at your home island and try to get back there before the other players-it's kind of like a mythological Candy Land. Here's a pic:

There's a different card for each island, and if you get stuck on one, you lose a turn. There are also color cards that move you along. For example, if you drew a red card, you would move your piece to the next red square. If you have any questions about this game, post them and I'll respond!