Gast+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.

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My name is Quinn Crosby and im a Dog Walker in New York City and im 24 years old. I visited some family in San Fansico then we decided to go on a trip to China, it was Febuary 23, 2018. I don't remember to much but i do remember the plane getting really shakey and there was a lot of confusion, it was all very frustrating! Now its even more frustrating because im on a island by myself and i dont know where my family is at, let alone if they are even alive. The plane obviously crashed so im lucky that i'am even alive! I searched this island up and down yelling for somebody, anybody but i didn't see one person or animal and i didn't hear anything. So to help myself out i just came to the conclusion that i'm here alone and i need to stay alive and try to get off this island if possible. I think the food situation will be okay considering as i was walking around i seen lots of coconut and pinneaple. I really need to find a cave or make a shelter of some kind. The only thing i have with me are the cloths on my body which consits of ripped jeans a sweatshirt and a pair of nikes and glasses. I really needed my glasses to see but instead i took them apart to make fire which worked out well but now i can only see out of one eye. I have been living in a cave with nothing but a bunch of leaves and i have been marking the days i have been here on the wall of the cave. My hair is getting very long and im getting used to being hungry and dirty all the time. The storms here really suck though, any shelter that i would have made outside of this cave would have been destroyed months ago! One day while walking along the beach catching crabs i found a seat in the water so i brought it out and layed it in the sun to dry out, its a lot nicer to sleep on then what leaves are. I have made this island my home for the past 10 months and after all this time of seeing nobody, natives come walking out from the jungle. Its so hard to tell them why i am here and my story, i did the best i can i just hope they believe me. Im just thinking that its 2018 and there are still people like this!! I mean you hear about it all the time but to see it in person is really awesome. They have been really good to me and have been really hleping me out. They have an awesome shelter way on the other side of the island. Its a cave kind of like mine but they have food stored in their and they have made hammocks that they sleep in and they have a fire pit and a homemade thing that they put over the fire to cook fish. I can tell that they have been here for a long time. There are 4 of them. I think it is a family. There is one man that is very old, i would guess 86 and then what seems to me to be parents in there 40's and then their child who is a male that looks about 20. Its just so hard to understand them at times and i really miss my family and everything to. The old mans name is Saboo and his duaghter is Haun and her husband is Musio and then their son is Wanik. Wanik has been teaching me their language and Haun put my hair in dreds which is so much better and a lot less annoying. I was going to ask them if they could help me get off this island but i think that would be very insulting considering everything they have done for me....... I think they look at me as family. I dont know what to do because i really miss my real family but i have been with this tribe for 7 months now. everyone at home probably thinks i'm dead.... The tribe im with is called the Jin Tribe but they know other tribes along these islands that they would like to join with to have better options in the way of family and strength for the tribe. I now wear these canvass type cloths. It covers almost nothing. I have been with the Jin Tribe for 4 years, i now speak and write in jin..... i'm completly different. sometimes its so hard for me to picture my family. Today Saboo explained to me that they are going to join another tribe and become the Taus and we would have a family of 27 instead of 5. We plan on joining them in a few months and living across the island with a great food supply. By the way my name is not Quinn Crosby anymore...... I have been Rese Jin but soon to be Rese Taus when we merge with the new tribe. and i have decided that this is my destiny and today i'am getting a tattoo under my that represents the Jin tribe then soon we will all have new tattoos to represent the Taus tribe. The tattoo process really hurt but i'am proud, this is my new life. And me and Wanik are getting married Saboo is going to do the ceromny and he is very happy........ We are now journeying over to the Taus tribe and merge with them. We will all have new tattoos which will be on our left shoulder blade. It will be my 3rd one because i also got one when i got married to Wanik. I really like the Taus traibe they are all very friendly. We go swimming and have competions to see who can get the most fish or make the longest rope and at night we sit around the fire and we tell stories of our ancestors, i dont speak of my ancestors of the Crosby family but instead i speak of the Jin Tribes ancestors, because that is my life now. Im also pregnant, just found out. It has been 8 years now through all this, by the time i give birth it will probably be almost 9 years. Im not sad about my family nor do i miss america. I come to learn and love the ways of the natives and i'am now one and am starting a family. I wonder if my family would recognize me if they seen me now. There is no need to write about my life anymore because i have moved on and to write this in english to what would be the crosby family would be a huge insult. I have a new life and will die apart of the Taus tribe.