The 16th century

heyhey
today I will tell you a story from the 16th century:
Marie is a 12 year old girl in this time but she didn't varnish her nails like we would do it at this age.She had to work the whole day for rich people to earn some money. So every day she had to wake up before sunrise,dresse with always the same clothes since the last years.After that it was her task to get water from the well in the middle of the town Dresdien. In the summer it was more pleasant to do this task but in the winter it was chilly and Maria didn't have a jacket like we have in our time ,she had just her very short dress. So after she got water for a family,just a bucket for 5 people a day ,she had to go to the castle from the Richheiner a rich family.She was the person who has to empty the toilet,which were at this time just buckets.
She had to do that very day.29 times she had to change the buckets and to carry the full ones
outside to a big big hole in the earth.There she had to spill everything in.That was her task the whole day.In the evenings,tired ,she was on the walk home she saw all the poverty the
dirt of this time.But also the funeral and the gallows.In this time it was normal to see people die or people with were killed.But there was one thing,everybody was scared about: THE BLACK DEATH. The whole day Maria was working for a pittance and from this pittance the hole family has to live from.In this case they were just allowed to eat every three days.Very hard but necessary.The father couldn't work because he died at the Black Death and the mother was working but diden't get more than Maria.And the other children were to little to work so it was very difficult to survive in this time.
Caro