GhostyPenguin

  DAY TWO- Donald Balloch    I suppose I should have made him day one, but too late now. This man is special to me because he is actually my ancestor. He was a brilliant warrior and a loyal man.    At the age of eighteen years old, he was called forth by Alexander, Lord of the Isles to aid him in the war for Scotland’s independence! He did fairly well in this task, I might add. Sure, his job was raiding villages and salting land…    The salting land thing was only done to people who had it coming though. Traitor clans by the names of Cameron and Chattan. Cameron was part of a British (even though they were Scotsmen!) that w

  DAY ONE- Leonardo Da Vinci    The first historical figure I have decided to write a little about is Leonardo Da Vinci. There are a number of reason to why I admire him. The first is his amazing artistic skills which I have regarded in the highest of respect since I first read about this horse he designed when I was seven years old.    As I grew older, I learned more and more about him. He was a scientist, a dreamer and an anthropologist. One of the greatest minds of his time.    Of course his brilliance was something to be feared by the church. They frowned upon his manner of collecting information on anatomy. Of course, his methods d

     Something that changed my life for ever happened on Easter morning, 2013. My mom came into my room as I was waking up and told me that my Aunt Amanda had died. The words didn’t register in my brain. It wasn’t possible. She had just talked to me the night before. We had made plans to call each other the next night to compare Easter dinners. No. It wasn’t true. It was a dream. So, like I do with all nightmares that begin like that, I just went back to sleep. I would wake up and things would be normal.    However, when I managed to pull myself out of bed and wander into the living room I found that it was real. It still