Diary Entry

Dear Diary,

Today I went with my fellow friends from back home to Mexico for the first time. It turned out to be the complete opposite of what we thought it would be. It is a very civilized country. They have well-made buildings called ‘temples’ where they practice their religion, they were the largest buildings in town. We were originally here to find gold. Instead we found other things too like horses, giant homes made out of stones; and learned more about their religion and culture. They worship many different gods, and follow this kind of practice called ‘human sacrifice’ which is very cruel and evil; they kill people and animals and think they are pleasing their gods, and by pleasing them they would bring rain and good harvest. They usually give the people they’re going to kill a drink called ‘the juice of cactus steep’ to calm them down before they kill them. They wanted to eat us with chilies! We got our muskets thinking that would help us, and they did. We killed one Aztec. They then thought we were gods that came for revenge for what they do. They have a very different way of thinking than us.