Last Week in Village: Week 9

The Trading Post is Open for Business!

In recent weeks the Village Post Office has been sending letters back and forth between the Villagers and Cleopatra, traversing time, distance and imagination.

Cleopatra, our Benevolent, Gracious Sovereign, sent a letter granting us land and requesting that it be named after her magnificent Self as a sign of our appreciation. The Villagers, eager to oblige, decided on one name, thought better of it  and decided on another, all of which took some time. Her Majesty, tired of waiting for a letter with news of the Village and it's name, sent another letter with a slightly impatient tone, "requesting" news (imagine elegantly bejeweled fingers drumming on some fine, ebony table...). At last the Villagers decided on a fitting name (Kemet Ptolemy - which means "fertile Nile soil of the Ptolemy's") and composed a suitable letter for Her Majesty, which, in due courses, was mailed. Last week we received a Royal reply accepting our name choice and, as a sign of her pleasure, a grant of $25,000 in gold to back our bank, develop the Village, pay various employees, loan money to the Villagers for the developing of Homesteads and agriculture.

Hallelujah!

With gold to back our local bank the Villagers lined up to apply for loans. With money in hand people were anxious to spend, which created a strong demand for the Trading Post to open, and open it did.

In between all of this fiscal activity, people worked on their land, wrote biographies, made house plans, estimated home costs and so much more.

What will happen next?

Stay tuned to find out!

Yours in Village,

Cheryl, Carey, Dee, Paul

Village Week 8

Ciana's Temporary Structure- From Materials Found in Kemet Ptolemy.

Another busy week fror the newly re-named village of Kemet Ptolemy.  Queen Cleopatra awaits notification from our Village letting her know we have moved forward on the projects she has requested: planting crops tro feed Rome, naming the village to reflect her glory and to set aside a piece of property for the town center that will be suitably posh when she comes to visit.  Mr. Paul was on site to help the letter writing committee (Holland and ?) complete our missive.  Hopefully, Cleopatra will respond quickly by funding our Village and helping us get our economy up and money flowing.

Cartographers Juju and AJ completed a map of the entrire of the Village, which shows the physical features (including the Nile) as well as where the Homesteaders live in relation to the town center and to one another.

 Homesteaders were busy finishing projects that will allow them to apply for their bank loan.  Villagers were hard at work finishing their house plans and estimated house costs, their biographies (again, thank you Mr. Paul!) and beautifying their cardboard models experimenting with decorative painting, some in very Egyptian style.

We listened to some new cultural reports, including a detail from Phil on the type of roofing on homes in Ancient Egypt.  We await the last few reports from some members of the Dirt Devil class, which we will get to next week.