I need to make some furniture. I need a chair and a table. I use the wood from my rafts and the ship. It takes five days to make them. Then, I make more furniture for the cave. I put my clothes and guns in the cave too.
I am very happy when my work is finished. The cave is comfortable now. Everything is well organized. I can easily find what I need.
I decide to write a book about my life on the island. I describe my days in the book. I start with my first day on the island. I write everything what I remember.
I also write what I think. It is good when I write my thoughts on paper.
When I start, I write one page every day. But when I get to the present, I write only one page every week. I write only important things.
After some time on the island my life is well organized. But my life is never boring. I have always some work.
Every morning, I walk around the island. Then I work. I have lunch at noon. Then I sleep, but not very long. Then I continue with my work. I relax or I write my book in the evening.
I make my cave bigger and bigger. I want to have a big cave.
The cave is my kitchen, living room and sometimes a bedroom.
When the cave is finished, a lot of earth falls from one side. I am not in the cave when it happens. If a lot of earth falls on me, I can die.
I clean the cave. Then I decide to put long boards on the sides and also on the top. I don’t want to have this accident again. This work takes one week.
In December, I continue with my work in my small camp. The weather isn’t very good. It rains all days. But it is still warm. So I work inside. It is never cold on the island. It is good for me.
At the end of December, I kill a goat. I also hurt another goat. Her leg is broken. The goat can’t walk. I take the goat home. I help the goat.
After two weeks, the goat is not scared. The goat eats from my hand.
In January, I travel through the island. I find more goats in the centre of the island. The animals are very shy. It is difficult to get close to them.
I want to domesticate some goats. I only need a good opportunity for it. I have a plan.
The next day, I return with my dog. I think that my dog can help me hunt.
I tel my dog, “Sit down. Wait. Don’t move.”
CHAPTER 12 – CORN
When the goats are between me and my dog, I hide behind a tree. Then I shout at my dog,
“Come here.”
My dog runs to me and the goats too. I wait in my position behind the tree. When one goat runs close to me, I jump and I catch her leg. I hold her right leg. But then the goat kicks me with her left leg. She kicks me in my nose. It is a horrible pain. I can’t hold the goat and the goat runs away.
We are not successful. This is not the best method how to catch a goat. We have to find a better method.
I tel my dog, “Let’s go home. I need to relax.”
I work on my fence from January to March. It takes me a long time because I want to make the fence very strong. During this time, I find big birds on the island. Their homes aren’t in the trees.
They live in holes which are between rocks. It is easy to catch them. Their meat is great. I can also cook and eat their eggs.
When I work on my fence, I find a small bag. I remember corn in the bag. But now I see only some leaves in the bag. I take the bag outside my camp. I empty the bag because I need the bag for gunpowder. This happens before the rains.
A month later, I find some green leaves in that place. It is young corn.
I am so happy. The corn grows near my home. It is fantastic. I can bake bread in the future.
Something happens in March. I am inside my cave when pieces of earth fall from the top of the cave.
I am scared. My work on the cave can be lost. I run outside the cave. I see that the ground starts to shake. It is an earthquake.
I am shocked and scared. Some big stones fall from the hill. But I am lucky. They don’t hit my tent.
The earthquake is finished soon. But I don’t want to go inside the cave. I am scared. I sit on the ground before my tent.
I think, “Maybe, it is dangerous to sleep in the cave. It is dangerous if another earthquake comes.”
But I don’t want to sleep in the tent. So I decide to make a house.
I start to build the house in April. It takes three months to build the house. But I am happy with my new home.
I am ill in the last week of July. I have a temperature. I can’t get out of the bed. I am very weak. I can do nothing in this state.
I have crazy dreams. The dreams are not very logical. But for me they are real when I have them.
CHAPTER 13 – DREAM
