As I was interested in reading some of the stories from the European unit, I decided to get ahead and see what stories were available. I was intrigued by the Italian section as it was meant to have a twist to some fairy tales. The story I read was Water and Salt, a story originally from Sicily. I was not sure what the original fairy tale was as I had never heard any story that resembled the plot from this story. The ending was unexpected as I was expecting the solution to be more clever than just have the king miss not having salt in his food. I thought there might be some lesson about how salt and water do not mix, but I guess the ending was meant to be simplistic as it is a fairy tale. I also wish that there was more elaboration on the magician in the story. Why did the daughter have to invite three kings? How did the magician know about the salt and water situation? Who is the prince the princess is marrying? Why did the king so easily agree to not serve salt and water to the king
This week on twitter I began to follow my high school district twitter account. I always to keep up with the daily news of my high school and city, and twitter is such a easy way to do so. Additionally, I also began to follow Trae Young. It was so exciting to watch him as a freshman lead our basketball team, and now he is doing so well in the NBA. I am excited to support my fellow sooner as his career goes on in professional basketball.