Day 17. Imagine yourself in a different century and describe an average day in your life
Arr! The year's 1700 and I'm on the mighty pirate ship "Vendetta." My name's Key Blacksmith and I'm 16 years old. Because of the recent small pox outbreak, all of my family members are dead and I'm an orphan. I decided to take the destiny of an adventurous pirate attacking ships and finding treasures under the flag of Captain Smithson. Of course, I'm not a full-pledged member of the crew and I have to do all kind of odd chores for the actual pirates but life's not that bad compared to the life a blacksmith's son. My father treated me really badly when he was alive. He'd often get drunk and trashing the house. My mother left this world long time ago when my father was still mentally stable. Now that they're both gone I had no place to live in. I saw the pirate ship in the harbor and I found one of the main pirates. I asked him if I could become a cabin boy. Because of my well build body of a blacksmith helper, he said that I could join the crew. I got my small bag of belongings with me and boarded the ship. The next day, the other pirates told me the daily routine on the ship.
The routine started in 0600 when a few other errand boys and I had to scrub the whole deck. This usually took at least 2 hours because of the lack of helping hands. Then, at around 8, we ate breakfast - a little bread, hard as a rock, and we boarded the supplies for the next journey. The supplies were in big heavy oak chests that needed 4 people in order to be barely lifted. After all the supplies were on board, we started patch the sails. At the end of the day we were totally exhausted but we finally had some free time. Some of the crew went to the shady parts of the town where they slept with prostitutes and drank shitty wine. I went out a few time to see what's everyone all hippy about "going to town and getting a girl" but then I stopped and started sneaking into the captain's cabin and trying to read the scrolls and the navigation books.
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