A 'Day in Life' or Journal-Ani V.

Ani Vehapetian
February 6, 2012
                         A “Day in Life” Or Journal
                                                       Qin dynasty

    The family I visited lived in Xianyang. They were peasants which had assigned jobs. 


This means that their life wasn't easy, very busy, and needed hard work to be 


successful. My family worked in assigned jobs of farmers and silk makers, if they were


 slow or lazy doing their job they had to go work on the Great Wall. We ate noodles, 


rice and some vegetables for dinner. The government in our city had many rules and


 harsh punishments: he was very strict he had absolute control. Our clothes were 


black, red had square sleeves, had designed clothes shoes and jewelry.


      At the beginning of the day we ate breakfast, talked with the family about 


problems and other situations. Then we traded some goods with neighbors and got


 ready to go to work. It was really hard to wake up in the morning and then go to 


work for a couple of hours or until the end of the day sometimes. We were controlled 


by the government and had very strict punishments, if we didn't follow the rules. I 


don't know how this would be if I lived here.


    Afterwards at the middle of the day we were forced to go to work even if we were


 tired and didn't want to go. I also learned by watching people work and by working 


with them. Almost everything was new to me and I hadn't seen anyone like this from 


my country that would work so much and put hard work and effort into working for 


their assigned job. Once when we got tired, lazy and stopped working for a couple of 


minutes we got sent to go from our work to the Great Wall. It was very scary and 


harder to work their instead of doing farming as our assigned jobs.


     Finally at the end of the day we came home tired from a difficult day. Then we 


talked to some of the family members if they hadn't had gone to sleep. But we were 


too tired to do anything most of the time so we went to sleep. I was very worried 


about my other family members at home and missed them. The family I lived with this 


week was very nice and tried to help me with any problems I had.