Today we went on a school trip! Half of Miss Brazell's class and all of my class went; we went to York and the trip was to do with our history theme. We went on the coach - it didn't take long; I just looked out the window. We went into this big hall when we arrived - we had to dress up like Vikings; we wore a tunic, a belt with three knots in and the girls had to ware a scarf on their heads and the boys wore hats. We were grouped into families; I was a little girl and I was trouble!

The lady told us a couple of things and then we went outside; it was like a Viking village. All the houses were made out of mud and were thatched; ours was the biggest house. We had to clean up our house (although I didn't have to do that), and then we had to go into the big chief's house but he wasn't there, but he soon arrived. We ground some corn while we were at the chief's house and made flour. We mixed it with water to make the dough.

There was this big bell in the middle of the village; if you rang it slowly it meant that there was a meeting, but if you rang it fast it meant that there was danger! The bell rang, and we thought it was danger, but it was the big chief and he was angry with the guards!

Then it was our turn to be guards; we did it with the chief - he was a bit scary. Some of had to guard the gates and others had to be at the bell and others half way between. Next we had lunch and it was a three course meal (soup, pasty and apple, cheese and biscuit). Then we went back to the village and we did some weaving (that was the nicest bit - the lady was really nice). We made some pottery too.

At the end we were told a story about the flower that is used to make a blue thread. There was a man and his wife and they wanted a baby but they were quite poor. But one day the man went out and got lost because there was terrible snow. He preyed that he would be safe and get home, and then he saw a massive cave. He went into the cave and saw a massive pile of silver. He collected as much of the silver as he could and then turned around and saw some gold. So he through all the silver away and started collected up the gold. He turned around again and saw some jewels, so he through away the gold and collected up the jewels. Then he saw something shining in the distance - he moved towards it and he saw that it was a golden woman; she wasn't on the ground - she was hovering in the air! The man said 'I'm sorry, I'm really sorry' because he was stealing her things. She said 'it's okay, but you can only take one thing'. He looked at all the silver and the gold and the jewels, and he looked at her and she was carrying some flowers, so he said 'can I have the flowers' and she said yes, so he went home with the flowers.

When he arrived home, his wife was a bit cross because he could have collected the jewels, gold or silver and she threw the flowers out of the window. The next morning, she looked out of the window and there was a whole field of these flowers, so she went outside and picked one and she made it into thread and weaved it and they became wealthy selling the beautiful cloth, and the gods gave them a baby in the end for making the right choice.