April 12

Dear Diary,


We left Circe after one year with her. Odysseus was talking to her during the last night that we stayed with her her to find the best way to continue on our journey home. Circe told him that soon after we set out on our journey that we would run into beautiful sounding sirens, that would make us not want to continue and forget about home and our families. Like she said soon after we set sail, we came up upon them, odysseus made me and all of the other men plug their ears with beeswax, but refused to plug his ears. Instead he had himself tied up in the back of the boat. I think that Odysseus thought that he wouldn't be effected by the sirens and that he was kind of curious about them. I also think that his pride exceeds him sometimes, and that his curiosity gets in the way of him making rational decisions, because indeed he was effected by the beautiful sirens. In fact some men had to hold him down when we were rowing through the area. The next morning we went through a strait between Scylla and Charybdis. Charybdis is a huge whirlpool that will eat the entire ship and Scylla is a six headed monster the swallows one shipmate for every head it has. Odysseus decided with the help of Circe that it would be better to sail closer to Scylla in order to loose as few men as possible. Just as Circe had told Odysseus, as soon as we looked the other way Scylla gobbled up six of our men. After we got out of the strait, we came upon the island of the sun, Thrinacia. Odysseus wanted to completely skip this island but Eurylochus convinced him to let us rest there since we were very tired from all the traveling. He was afraid that we would kill the cattle. A storm hits the island soon after we landed there and made us stuck there for a month. Odysseus told us that we would have to live off of the food on the ship until we could set sail again. One day we were just so hungry and the crew disobeyed him. The sun soon finds out about this and tells Zeus to punish Odysseus and us. Zeus makes a new storm and destroys the ship and thinks that he killed all of the crew but Odysseus and I were the only two left to survive. The storm swept us all the way back to Charybdis, but we finally make it all the way to Ogygia, the Land of the Cyclops.

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