4.3 School Project part 2

 Note: Please me aware that most of the history I talk about is based on reality but I'm changing part of it for in-story purposes.

Dear diary, I'm sad and happy at the same time. I'm lost my soccer position due to an injury so I'm unable to go back to it.  But I should go back to the beginning, shouldn't I?

From the age of six, I have always played Soccer-I was the best player on the team  The Widenburg Kittens.  To the point at practices, Teammate Clara Fogel would complain to Coach Isabella about how I kept hogging the ball and not allowing others to have turns scoring.  Coach Isabella tried to tell her off but it didn't work and she still complained which made Coach Isabella say some nasty things which including the "n" word to me as well as something about "I will end up in jail where I belong" I had no clue what that was about. Still don't.  Why do I suspect that my parents (and my grandparents when they're still alive) are keeping stuff from us?  Well anyway, Cousin Raven (oh was also a teammate) told the coach off that I already had enough problems to deal with without the coach saying nasty things like that. 

Right before the 13th birthday of Cora and I, the family went to the same rental cottage where our parents got engaged!. It expanded a lot since they were there magical maybe?  Then it was our birthday 

I then joined Team Lynx and we had our 3rd match this time it was against the Newcrest Boars.  Well anyway during the match-I got so badly injured I was taken away in an ambulance and I was told by the doctor to stay off my foot for several months.   He also gave me a science book called "The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Rivalry, Adventure, etc"

It was embarrassing having to use the crutches since I tripped as soon as a got home with them. Mom told me if I could manage some months without having to do stuff -the parents would get me my own horse!  

A schoolmate Blaine came over and said We (he and I) been assigned to do 60s scoop for a school project. I did some research as did he and I then wrote up the essay 

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60s SCOOP

In the late 50s and even now the governments of the Royal States of American and the Royal Provinces of Canada both well for lack of a better term stole or basically kidnapped Indigenous child from their families and placed them in white families to like what the residential schools did to "stop the Native in the child".   This is known as the 60s Scoop. In some cases, single Indigenous women who had recently given birth were coerced into giving up their children under the pretence that they could have the child back when they're "on their feet again". But when they (the mothers) go to get their child back they found that the child been adopted out.  It's very similar to how some parents of Home Children were shocked to found out their children were gone overseas after dropping them off until they got on their feet..  In other cases, due to social workers,  middle-class European training children were taken away because of "not probably meeting children's needs" (something which is still happening in other forms against other Black/People of Colour) since the social workers aren't used to seeing a home without a Fridge.   And up until recently social workers could take the children without telling the families. Does that spell "kidnapping" anyone?

This was at a time that the governments realized that the residential schools were harmful to families and thought it was best for the Idengious children to be put into the public school system. The residential schools still remained as boarding schools for some children.   Like black and POC children of today, Indengious children were overrepresented in foster care systems.

They were placed into white families and sometimes the children placed into the white families' care were told they had Jewish or Italian ancestry. Since the Adoptive parents were told to "erase the roots" of the children-even to the point of changing their names.  

But like in the residential school cases a lot of these children were abused-either physically or otherwise. Also like a lot of foster care stories, these children were a lot of the terms a sort of servant to their adoptive family.  Sure there were some families which were good for Ingenious children to a point- but that's not the point.   

Much like in the Residental schools some of the children taken during the 60s scoop couldn't understand English or French languages so were considered "slow" or even as one of my elementary teachers called my friend Wyatt "retard" despite his family having been here for three years.

So like the residential schools they supposedly replaced a lot of the Ingenious folks of Royal States and Provinces of America and Canada are still dealing with PTSD and other issues because of being taken away from their real parents. Hopefully, this get fixed within the next couple of years

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Over the months since Blane and I got really involved with each other in more than a platonic sense.   We had a coffee date at first in my home and then after I was allowed to go out more he took me out on a picnic. He made sure I didn't stand on my foot a lot. 

But during the times I wasn't with him I was reading the book that the doctor gave me and it got me really hooked on chemistry. So I'm thinking of seeing about becoming a chemist for a career. And my parents did get me my own horse and it was wonderful trying to bond with it!  But when I'm totally back on my feet again  I have to get a job to support it since my parents wouldn't pay for the food it costs so like my distant great uncle Derek I'm going to become manual labour on the two weekend days leaving me the rest of the week to play with the horse.

4.2 Sleepover and School Project Part One

 NOTE: PLEASE NOT I'M AGANIST SPARKING.  SUB NOTE: PLEASE NOTE THAT I'M GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT CERTAIN "CAMPS" IN THIS CHAPTER. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!!

cira 1975-1976

Dear Diary I'm in a weird mood since I'm happy, I'm sad I'm scared. 

I really hate that whenever I go out Cora acts like such a baby!  She's forced to come and most times Mom refused to let her stay at home.  Dad on the other hand doesn't make her come out with me and the other children around.  Not that Cora and I see our parents often-we have our Nanny who has her own son, Cameron who is our age.

Now I have heard some rumours that Dauphine Kenya, the heir to the throne has said that because Cora is such a trouble maker and a baby that she must be a criminal in training from either Mom or from our Grant side of the family.  I have no idea what they mean by that since no one is telling me anything about family history except for what happened to Great-Grandma Clarissa

Still, Cora is blamed for everything even when I make a mess and I blame it on her.  I had made a mess and blamed it on Cora.  And our Nanny refused to listen to Cora's protests and told her if she doesn't change her behaviour she isn't allowed to join my sleepover party in the next three weeks.

Our teacher Ms. Calentine has called my friend Wyatt a "retard" because despite being here for two years he still doesn't speak what she thinks is "proper" English and that his parents should be in jail for talking a criminal language at home. I told her off by telling her that he speaks "perfect" English to me and she shouldn't judge what they speak at home. I even pointed out that Queen Victoria spoke German at home.  And Ms. Calentine accused me of being a liar.

A week into the school season that Dauphine Keyna told me I was a 'cheater' and I probably got terrible grades in school.  But Cora came to my recuse and told them to back off.   But as soon as the bullies left  Cora yelled "Why do you have to be such a loser and blame me for everything?"

Then  the next week  into the school year I came across Prince Orlando punch Cora trying to get her to show him some "criminal" defences that Mom had taught her.  This wasn't the first time he apparently did it.  He even asked if she paid an illegal to straighten her hair.  I was so mad at what he said I punched him instead and help Cora off the floor but 

I turned on Cora after Orlando went to the nurse's office with his twin sister and Ms. Calentine's daughter  "Why do you keep getting bullied?"  Cora said "I'm getting bullied? You are too! I never asked for you to step-in since you think I'm a 'loser' like Dauphine Keyna and Prince Orlando think! Why don't you just join in the teasing!" I said "Me join them? They would rather be dead then me join them!"

 Our brother Elliot who is in school now came up and told us "We can't have a united front if the eldest children are arguing with each other about the Berjsens' bullying." 

Wyatt's Mom Aunt Rain and my Mom,  both forced Wyatt and me to spend time together.  While we were talking Wyatt kind of randomly dropped the fact he thought Cameron, the nanny's son was very interesting.  That night our nanny took Wyatt, Elliot, Cora and I, out to a disco rollerskating and dance place   It was awesome!!  

The following week Cora got into trouble again at home and our Nanny spanked her and also told her she couldn't join my sleepover party that Friday Yes she was allowed to spank her. 

It was lovely party and I won a couple of games.  Nanny cooked Mac and Cheese.  But at some point Cora tried to join in and Dad yelled at her for forgetting she wasn't allowed to be a part of the sleepover 

The next week or so I and Wyatt spend some time at the library and did our history project together. This is what we got up 

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Concentration Camps

                                                   by Wyatt Wood and Elizabeth Swanson

This school project is going to be about concentration camps.  Little do people know that the first concentration camps were done by the British during the Boer War. The same war which we get the term "Blitz" from. Even though it was a different kind of "Blitz" then the one London, UK faced in WWII.  Even though in the Boer War there weren't "showers" like in German ones.   Also, North American countries (Canada/United Kingdom States) in both First and  Second World Wars had 'labour camps" for either during the First One- for Urkanines and Russians or for the 2nd one Japanese people like David Suzuki.

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There are fences around these camps with guards at certain watchpoints to prevent the "different" people from escaping. Some still did escape either after dark or when they're could go somewhere else for labour purposes.  These were the first thing that prisoners were seen when they arrive in the camp and their precious items confiscated and other prisoners would sort through and the most highly valued stuff would return back to Germany 

There were doctor's rooms. But they weren't for the health of the prisoners.  They're tested in a similar way to those unethical tests that were done on First Persons in residential schools. Some were diet-related.  Or in other ways, the prisoners who were tested on, were forced to deal with contagious diseases like rubella. Basically, they're guinea pigs for the Germany army on the battlefield 

The barracks were the worst part. That originally it was only supposed to be for three people per bed but sometimes there could be able to five people per bed.  Also, they had to make their own beds before roll call out of doors.

They got really little food.  They're lucky if they got bread once a week.  Sometimes they exchange it for more of something else. 

Technically the famous "showers" where a lot of Jews and others died in, weren't at concretion camps but at death camps. 

Like in all prisons there was a hierarchy within the prisons.  So the higher ranking ones would get the cushy indoor jobs while the lowest of the low would be sent to other camps to do stuff like building factories in the dead of winter with no outdoor gear.

The pictures shown are from Wyatt's friend who was killed when the Woods try to escape to Widenburg to prevent them from being sent to such a camp.  Since he had gotten pictures due to some people who had escaped from such camps.

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The Friday after we handed in our project  Nanny took Wyatt and I out sledding and then Mom and Dad took me skating!  Cora had to stay at home because she's grounded. Not that she minded.