Thursday, September 19, 2013

Bungalow (n.) a small house

Before living in Ms. Minchin's Select Seminary for Young Ladies, Sara Crewe lived in a bungalow in India with her father.

I have decided this time to make a haiku, a Japanese poetic form.


My blue bungalow
open doors, your hardwood floors
my one story home


Lascars (n.) East Indian Sailors

This word is found on the very first page, on the very first chapter entitled Sara.



Looks familiar? This is actually a scene from the movie Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. East Indian sailors were recruited by the European traders to help out in their ships. They do not have the easiest life; according to the Royal Greenwich Museums website: "...the Lascar crew would be paid a fixed monthly wage for the voyage from India to London. When in London, they were to get bounty money and maintenance while waiting for a return passage to their port of origin."
At times they weren't even welcomed back to the ship that brought them to London, they would simply abandon them.




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