One of my dreams is really crazy. I am in a pub. The pub is on my island. I want to drink some rum. But the waitress is very lazy. She sits at the bar. She does nothing. I don’t like lazy people. I am angry but I wait.
Then my wife comes to the pub. She gives me paper with some text. It is a message from her father. He writes that I have to go home. He writes that I have to work on the plantations. But I don’t want to go home.
I go to the kitchen in the pub. My mother is in the kitchen. She prepares some steaks. She also cooks soup. I taste the soup. The soup tastes fantastic.
Then two Englishmen come to the pub. They want to sell gunpowder. One man looks like a gentleman. But the second man is horrible.
I tel the horrible man, “I am sorry. I don’t need your gunpowder. I have a lot of gunpowder in my camp.”
The horrible man says, “You have to buy our gunpowder. We travel from London. We want to do the business.”
I say, “Thank you. I don’t want your gunpowder.”
The horrible man is really angry. Our conversation is not good. He says some horrible things about me. I say some horrible things about him.
The conversation gets to a point when he wants to kill me. He takes his gun. I start to run away.
He shoots at me. Then I wake up.
One week later, I feel better. But I still need to relax. I need to sleep a lot.
In August, I am OK again. But I still feel a little weak. I need to do some physical activity. The next ten days, I walk around the island. I feel better after these trips.
When I feel strong again, I decide to explore the whole island. I find a new interesting part of the island. It is a valley. It is a valley with a lake. The valley is in the central part of the island.
I find melons here. The melons look like big balls. They are very sweet. I also find apples, oranges and lemons in this valley. I want to take some fruit home. But I need a big bag. I don’t have a big bag with me.
I collect some fruit. I put the fruit in one place. I return to my cave. I bring a big bag for the fruit.
I like the fruit valley very much. The nature is beautiful here. I think, “Maybe, I can move here.
But the beach is far from this place. I have to be close to the beach. I need to see a ship which can save me.”
CHAPTER 14 – HOUSE
I don’t move to the fruit valey. But I decide to build a house here.
I visit the valley very often. Step by step, I build a house here. The house is small. I make a double fence around the house. The house is protected like a castle.
Again, I use a ladder when I want to go inside. And inside, I have stairs in one corner of the fence. I use the stairs when I go outside. And I use the ladder when I go inside.
This activity takes the whole August and the beginning of September. But I enjoy it a lot. The fruit valley gives me so much energy. I feel so healthy and strong here.
Sometimes, when I am in the valley at night, I watch the moon and the stars. I think about my wife. I think about my family in England. I know that they see the same moon. They see the same stars. But we can’t be together. I think about my family very often. I wish the best for them.
I also think about all the people who see the moon. I think about the places where they live. I feel connected with them. Sometimes, I feel connected with the whole universe.
I also think about God. I have questions for God. I ask him, “Why am I on this island? Why am I stil alive when my friends are al dead?”
I don’t have answers to these questions. But I believe God. I believe that he knows what he is doing.
It is the time when the rainy season starts. The rainy season continues until the middle of October. This is my first year on the island.
When the rains end, I return to my valley house. I see that the fence is all green. New leaves are growing everywhere. This isn’t only beautiful. It is also useful because it is realy hard to see the house.
The leaves create shadow. It is very nice to stay here. I want to make a fence from the same wood around my first house too.
When the rainy season is finished, I put my corn in the ground. I have a bad feeling that something bad can happen. I only use a half of the corn. This is a good idea because no corn grows up.
I put the second half of the corn in the ground before the next rainy season. This time, the corn grows up. Now, I have a small farm on the island.
I see that the seasons on the island are different from England. The seasons are not spring, summer, autumn and winter. We have two rainy and two dry seasons. With this information, I can now plan when to put corn in the ground.
CHAPTER 15 – BASKET
I make longer and longer trips around the island. I need a basket for these trips. With a basket I can carry more food during my trips. I can also carry more fruit from the fruit valley.
I cut branches from the tree which I use for my fences. I use the branches for the basket.
When I finish the basket, I decide to make a long trip around the island.
I go through the fruit valley. After the valley, I find some fields. A lot of grass is on the fields.
The fields are very flat.
There are a lot of flowers on the fields. The flowers smell so good. Many insects fly around these flowers. I see some big butterflies. Their wings are ten centimetres wide.
I also see small trees around these fields. I find nuts on these trees. These nuts are different from nuts in England. They have a different shape. They are also more sweet than nuts in England.
