hoffman+journal

Castaway Journal template · Each team member will keep a journal (8 1/2 by 11 piece of paper) of the castaway adventure to turn in when finished. · The journal must be in first person form and in character, invent yourself (be a doctor, fireman, professional gambler, shower curtain salesperson, **use your imagination!**) Include a mini-biography of your character. **(required)**

Learning Advice
 * 1) Have fun!
 * 2) Write down things you have observed that you find interesting.
 * 3) Also write down questions or comments you have about the experience.
 * 4) Take notice of everything around you, in the pictures, and on the website links to piece everything together.
 * 5) Try to identify food, land formations and other things by looking them up in your textbook, and online.
 * 6) Refer back to the **Task** page to ensure you complete all of the assignment.

[] My name is Jermaine Taylor, the date is July 26, 2006 I am professional gambler in the US. I was goin to Germany from California to play in the European World poker tournament. I was on my private jet when we got caught in some turbulence and thats when everything went bad. My plane crashed somewhere between China and California I believe but I don't have a pin point location. I washed up on shore with my life preserver and my raft that I managed to pull out before going into the ocean. First thing I do is "explore" the shore line looking for people to help me. ( I got nothing out of that),but I did find a couple of things, my lucky coin and my plastic deck of cards that I carry around in my pocket. When I was heading back to the raft I found a spatchula from the kitchen plane. I set up a signal for planes and boats to see if one were to go by, by laying logs down to spell out help. The enviorment on this island is very tropical, mountains and hills I see. I go and build my camp site out of my raft being a tent and cut down trees to build with. When I was cutting i accidentally cut down and pineapple tree and coconut tree which i used to eat. Starting a fire wasn't easy either i used a stick at first but that wasn't working so then i used my lucky coin and finally got it started. Spearing fish didn't work out so I went fishing for about an hour a day and caught some fish with the metal ring part of my spatchula as a hook with pineapple as bait and a stick with some "string" I made. I did all this for several days and cleaning my teeth wasn't great but i used fresh water from the rain and a stream I found down along the beach and the edge of my plastic cards to clean my teeth somewhat. Its been 2 weeks and most of the pineapple and coconut trees are gone but I still notice that I haven't explored any of the mountains. I pack up some pineapple and my life jacket just incase if i need to use anything from it and take a journey. I finally get to the top and there is a native tribe there to greet me with spears they have, they speak spanish and I have little rememberance from my college years but I say enough to have them like me and I give them my deck of cards as a gift and that worked so now I am a loyal guest. I talk with the cheif who knew some english and he got me to a bigger town on another island with there boat and I called the US gov and they got me home. People ask how did I do it and I said with "natural instinct". I went back to playing poker and the next year I went to the European world Poker Tournament and won.