Week 8- Maybe Not Juliet: The Village

The Post Office is open!

This week's Village began the same as recent weeks'. Villagers were hard at work, house modeling, number crunching, and biography-writing. There was talk of inventing new building materials from our very own Nile River Valley's resources and there was interest in merely being on the land. A few Villagers are finished with all of the tasks required to apply for their bank loans (when the bank opens), and I saw the first of those applications being filled out already!

Then, the mail came at lunchtime, bringing announcements:

We have some new Village employees, once Queen Cleopatra is apprised of the Village name and elects to send along funding. Collecting regular paychecks for the first part of the remaining school year: Phil and Cat (co-Bank Managers), Holland and Lilah (co-Village Accountants) and Suida and Adelina (co-Trading Post Managers). Erin continues as the Village Crier, quite effectively, and Ciana is our new Village Secretary!

The Post Office, under the supervision of Sarah, hired some employees this week and will endeavor to operate independent of Royal funding, subsisting on sales of stamps and other items to make its payroll. The Queen's Land Commisioner (Midas the Mediocre) also sent word that the Queen wishes to commission Cartographers Grace and Juju to make a map of our Village, so that she might know where each of her subjects live. I wonder why....

As our Village began to close in its usual manner, with a Village meeting, it became clear that many Villagers saw the name Juliet: The Village to be inequitable. Villager Juliet, who did not pursue to have our Village named for her, agreed. A new can of Village naming worms was opened, but it seems that Villagers are becoming more and more accustomed to our meeting process, which has yielded a few consensus decisions in recent weeks.

So, we are back to being an unnamed Village, but a Royal Reminder of the promise of a $25,000 investment from Her Majesty Queen Cleopatra Ptolemy VII did indeed inspire many to hasten the process, which promises to deliver a new Village name next week. (Ms. Dee and Ms. Carey)

A Village Meeting