Theresa's+story

In a small little house in Athens, Greece sat a older man working on a beautiful pot for his daughters wedding. It was a lovely burnt red with black writing. On it he wrote, forever may peace be with you and your new family. It was turning out lovely and almost ready to make its trip to Corsica, where his daughter was being married, and soon to live. Before anything though, he first must take it to the temple to get the pot blessed by the gods.

To get ready for the trip, Zeke (the Older man) had to start packing, and saving money, because this was a long trip for him. Zeke had been saving money for a while, and he had just enough to buy food and a new outfit to wear for the wedding. Zeke was making the trip by himself because his wife had died during child birth. It had been hard raising a child by himself, and having a job but he knew he had to do it in order for his daughter to have a good life. Zeke worked on a farm all his life and was glad his daughter had found someone with a good paying, and higher class job. Zeke was getting older, and this was probably one of the last times He would get to see his daughter because it would be hard for him to keep making this trip.Zeke wrapped up the pot to make sure that it wouldn't break, because he had but a lot of work into it. After packing all his stuff up onto his horse he fed the rest of his animals and took off on the journey to Corsica.

About a mile out of town was the last water well in 25 miles so, Zeke filled all of his jugs checked the pot, and took off again. It was a slow journey because the horse had to carry so much, and it was hard to go fast for him. Zeke saw a bunch of temples and statues of the gods along his way. They more beautiful then things he had ever seen before. Corsica was 84 miles away, and Zeke new it would take about a week to get there. It was getting darker so Zeke decided to setup for the night. First he gave the horse water, and then started a fire to make himself some dinner. It was a nice night with only a slight breeze. Zeke's plan was to get up at dawn and take off again in hopes that he might arrive earlier if did. As soon as there was light he took off on his path toward Corsica. In his mind he could picture himself about one third of the way there, which meant the hard part was coming soon. About half way between the two cities is where a lot of the big hills and wide, long rivers are. Two of which Zeke would have to cross. Since he would have to cross the two rivers he would have to hope someone would have a boat and give him a ride across. If there wasn't he would have to build one.

As Zeke was just about to the river he saw a man leave on a boat. Zeke called out for him but the man was already to far out to come back. It was starting to look like he was going to have to built his own boat. Zeke started gathering up wood to tie together with the vines he found in the woods. The boat was coming along nicely, but he would have to finish it tomorrow because it was getting to dark to see. The next morning as soon as the boat and paddles were done Zeke took off down the first river he would have to cross. If was a bumpy ride because of the wind blowing the water every which way but Zeke was making it.

After reaching the other side of the river even though it was still light out Zeke was to tired to travel any more that night.He made a fire, and fed the horse, which also rode on the boat when the water was to deep for him to swim in. Zeke slept well that night and got a good start the next morning. He made it all the way to and across the next, and last river he would have to cross. He only had 2 more miles until he reached Corsica, and he could almost make out the city. The first thing he did when he got there was give his horse some water then he went and found his daughter. His daughter was doing some final touches on the wedding, since it was the next day. She looked wonderful. He was so proud of her he started to cry. They talked about his journey then both went to bed because it was getting late.

The next morning Zeke put on his new outfit and grabbed the pot. He then headed down to the temple to help his daughter get ready. He set up flowers and washed the benches. Afterwards he went and met his daughter's soon to be husband.Her soon to be husband told Zeke about the plans he had to make the money to support his new family. Zeke liked the man. He thought that he was perfect for his daughter. He new his daughter would be very happy for her whole life.

Zeke took his seat and the ceremony began. His daughter looked so beautiful. She had a beautiful long gown on with a crown of leaves and flowers on top of her head. The whole wedding was wonderful and you could tell that the family that paid for it was very wealthy. That made Zeke happy because it meant that his daughter would no longer be farm poor. After the reception Zeke talked with his daughter at length and decided to stay and live in Corsica to live close to his daughter until his death, and that is what he did.

EPILOGUE Zeke lived in Corsica for the rest of his life, but only two years after his daughter got married, Zeke unfortunately died from some fatal attack to the heart. The doctors back then thought it was because of to much work for his age and small size. His daughter and her husband decided to move after Zeke die, back to Athens to live in the house she grew up in. She knew her father would have liked that she was keeping the house in their family, and she felt that it was something she had to do to remember him. To this day that pot Zeke made is still around. It moved with Zeke's daughter to Zeke's old house and after being passed down from generation to generation it finally ended up in a museum, so all people could see the wonderful art of the ancient Greece.