Travelling Back in Time The summer holidays had just started and I was going to meet my friend at The Grain Earth House out at Hatston at 12:00. Then once we had explored under ground we were going down the street for lunch since it was such a nice day. I thought that I should give her a text, just to make sure it was still all good to go. She replied saying, “Yeah (: See you later!” I got dressed and brushed my hair and my teeth. I said to my mum that I was going, so she put a £10 note in my bag for me. I walked to The Grain Earth House and texted her saying that I was here and I will be waiting at the gate. I sent it and then about 10 seconds later, she came around the corner! She asked me how I was, and we had a little chat before we went into it. She had her brand new top on, so I was wondering if she should have worn it because we might get a little bit dirty while we are in there. When we were finished our chat, we went into it. It was quite awkward going into the underground tomb because we had to go down some very steep steps and then duck down with our backs crouched right down to be able to fit into the small tunnel. When we got to the end of the tunnel, we could finally stand up. We stretched our backs and gave a sigh of relief! There were a lot of markings on the walls, such as TS and dates. There were a few little drawings of things, but not many. Inside the tomb, it was very dark and without a torch, we would very, very disorientated and probably a bit scared! On the ground, it was a bit muddy and wet. It didn’t feel very nice on your feet of you stood on it, plus- your shoes got muddy. The walls were damp and it had quite a light way to them. We looked around into the corners to try and find archaeological objects they would have used from thousands of years ago. Unfortunately, we could not find anything, so we went back into the tunnel, towards the way out. I seemed to have stumbled a bit as I made my way out again, but I didn’t know what it was, so I went back to see what it was and it looked a bit like a yoyo. On the one side of it, it had a funny symbol on it, like a dogs face. On the other side of it, it had about 8 little circular holes and in between each hole, there were 3 spiky lines going towards the edge of it. Then in between the gap of the 3 spiky lines and the circular holes, there were 5 tiny holes. In the middle of the strange object, there was a thick line carved into it. On each side of that, there were tiny symbols, which looked as if they were telling a story. I looked at it in amazement and so did my friend Leah. We quickly put it in my bag and were going to run home with it to show my family what I have discovered. As I was in such a rush, when I ran up the steep steps I bumped with head on the roof and fell backwards and landed unconscious. The stone seemed to have fallen out of my bag, hit my head and landed back on the ground again. I think the stone may have had something to do with this because when I woke up, I was back in time. I looked around me and there were funny stone houses and weird looking men. I thought to myself, am I dreaming or is this really for real! I crouched down behind a massive big stone boulder and made sure that no one could see me. I wondered what on earth I was doing here. I still had my fancy clothes on and my bag. I searched about my bag for my phone. I found it, but unfortunately there was no signal. There was also the mystery object and I wondered how I had it still. I looked at people and they were very scruffy so I took my hair and raffled it about, ripped my cropped trousers and ripped my tiger patterned jumper and left my bag with my phone and the mystery object in my pockets. I walked on, towards a house, giving people a wave as I passed by. I smelt the air and I could smell the sea, fish and smoke. It was very weird. As I was walking, I heard some people shouting at each other… But in a different language that I had never heard of before. I realised that I was scared, uncomfortable, nervous and anxious. I started to walk slower and tears came out of my eyes. I fell and lay on the ground shivering with water sprouting out of my blue eyes. A little small lady came over to me, put her arm around me and seemed to have led me to her home. We went in, and again, we both had to crouch down and walk through a tiny length less tunnel. When we got in, I looked around and there were 2 children and a man. I thought that he must have been her husband. I looked at the children and noticed that they were playing a game like mancala, made out of stones. The beds were made out of stones too. And there was a massive stone chest, shaped as a big dresser without drawers. There were special looking items. I went to sit down next to the fire, and dried up my tears. I showed the women the mysterious object I found in the tunnel. She looked at it and got a bit of material that looked like string and tied it round and started using it like a yoyo and gave it to her children to play with. We had a game of mancala and she looked at me and smiled. I smiled back and said to her that my name is Elise. She replied back saying Eels. I gave her a big grin and she returned a bigger one. The fire was very warm, warmer than the one I had at home, and that was hard to beat! I realised to myself that I hadn’t properly spoken to her yet so I decided to tell her some stuff about me. I said my name, age, family members, pets, anything I could think of that would be interesting for her to know so we could have a little conversation to pass the time. When I had finished, she just looked at me in a puzzled way. I asked her what was wrong, but she just didn’t reply. She mumbled in a different language to her husband and they kept looking at me and pointing. I was frightened because I didn’t know what they were saying and they might do something horrible to me. They stopped talking and parted back to where they were before. I gave a quick glimpse at the man and he seemed to have noticed. He put his fist up in the air and he pushed it out sharply. I didn’t know what he was doing, but he stared at me for a few minutes. He glanced away and started playing with his children. I went back to playing the game of mancala with the kind lady. She took hold of my small pale hand and stared into my eyes. I wondered what on earth she was doing to me. I pulled away from her. I wondered over to one of the children and he was playing with the strange mysterious object I had found in the underground tomb. He handed it to me, as if he was giving me a shot of it. I started pulling it up and down, using it as a yoyo. The ones at home I had were plastic so they were quite light to pull up and down, but this particular one was stone, so it was quite hard because it was so heavy. I stayed at there home for the night, because I didn’t know what to do. I slept in one of the stone beds with the girl. It was incredibly uncomfortable and I don’t think I slept much in the night. It also got quite a lot colder, because the fire was dying down and in the morning, it was completely out. There was no one else awake when I finally decided to get up. I wasn’t sure what time it was, it wasn’t even that light outside yet. I crept out of the main area and out through the tunnel. I hesitated before I made my first step outside into the weird land. Not a foot step was seen. Not a shout could be heard. Not a sound was about. This was excellent I thought to myself as I started taking little steps out into the peculiar strange little world. I never took my eye off any house in case someone came out of there little stone home. I remember where I left my bag so I went over to it. I checked my phone and hid behind the very same boulder. It said that there was one new message from mum, asking where I was. I didn’t bother to reply to her because there was absolutely no signal at all and she would never believe me. I put my bag over my shoulder and started walking. I just remember when I started walking that I had forgotten my mysterious object in there home. I walked back and left my bag at the same boulder again. Instead of walking, I ran, in fact, I sprinted. I crawled into the home I stayed in. I went in quietly and the lady was awake and up. I looked at her and waved. She waved back, but she also gave me a funny look. I pretended to look at what she was doing, but I quickly grabbed the mystery object and stuffed it in my pocket. I waved again to her and ran out. She noticed I had stolen the yoyo object and chased after me. I was quite far ahead, so I noticed I had the chance to grab my bag and keep on running. I looked back at her and I could just faintly see her. She must have stopped and turned back because I could no longer see her. I stopped as well and walked. I had been running so far and I felt a bit dizzy. I put the object back in my bag so it would not fall out of my pocket. I found my mind spinning and things were starting to go black. I stopped and I was swaying back and forwards. I suddenly gasped and fainted… I could see funny things… The 4 people in the home… Leah in the tomb, falling down the steps, finding the mystery object……. BOOM! I was back in the tomb with Leah. We were running out of it.. I was so confused. I stopped when I was out of the tomb completely. I said to her that I was in a mystery place, like the Bronze Age. She stopped and we sat down. We lay down on the grass and fell asleep one after the other. Elise