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-Eboni, Re, Tor, and Kanika had just arrived to the city of Ancient Egypt, 

these four has been looking for a good place to raise their family. They 

had just recently moved from Persia, in which they have been looking for 

a place that has grown closer in a community and also live in a place 

inexpensive. Libia has also been having struggles leaving her friends from 

her old town and she is not looking forward to making new ones.

-When they had arrived libia had noticed that they had 

Journal- Day 1

    After walking from where we left, we have to get 

use to this new setting. In Egypt there’s a lot more 

people here, around 1-2 million. We haven't found 

shelter yet to get us from the suns heat. In two days 

worth of treaveling, we traveled through the cities 

Mendes, Avaris, and stopped in the capital of Egypt, 

Amarna.   My family and I are really exhausted at this 

point. After a while we came across some people that 

offered to help us. We told them about our situation 

and they wanted us to stay in their home until we get 

a place of our own. 

Journal- Day 2

        We stayed up all night talking about the 

lifestyle here. They are ruled by the Pharaohs 

which had many different roles like, watching over 

the law courts, chief of the temples, and 

supervised water systems. The Pharaohs were so 

important to the Egyptians that they were taken 

place to place on a chair carried by servants. 

Although the rights of women weren't the best, it 

was still better than a lot of other places.

 Journal-Day 2 Continued

      Women could work in high end jobs like men. They were able to 

sell and buy land, be priestesses, supervisors, and administrators. 

One woman even became a Pharaoh! On the other hand, the 

downfall for being a women if one decides to talk disrespectfully to a 

man their mouth gets crushed by a brick. We also learned that the 

slaves here had little to no pay and seen as hardworking or gross by 

the public. 

Journal- Day 3

    As I was exploring the town this afternoon, I had realized all the 

different descriptions or pictures that they use for writing. I had 

asked what these meant what language it was. They explained to 

me that it was the language of arabic to me by mentioning that it 

has 28 total letters and is just like many other languages in this 

world. This style of language is not going to be hard to learn 

because it is similar in a lot of ways.

Journal- Day 3 Continued

     My mother told me to be home by a certain time, this made me 

realize the awesome time system that they have here, they either 

use a sundial to forecast the time with a shadow, or use a water 

bowl with a hole drilled into it so the water will leak at a certain rate 

which will tell the time. This helped me alot in figuring out when I 

have to be at certain places at certain times of the day.

Journal- Day 4

    Today is the day that my parents decided to apply for jobs. My 

Father was hoping to be a merchant, and my mother wanted to get a 

job as a baker for now and move on as a craftsman which was higher 

in the social classes. The social classes were pretty much divided up 

by pharaohs, upper class, middle class, and peasants. Pharaohs were 

the very highest in the social classes because they are the kings and 

rulers of Egypt and pretty much had everything handed to them.

Journal-Day 4 Continued

    The people we live with are both priest, upper class, and I’ve been 

wondering what their religion was like. They told us that my brother 

and I could go to with them to work and learn more about it. When I 

grow up to get my own job here I was looking forward to be a baker 

just because it seems fun. And of course the slaves were at the very 

bottom of it all in the peasants class and barely got anything. I was 

surprised that woman could pretty much any job a man a could do 

and it seemed like a lot of women took advantage of that.

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