The Statue of Gilgamesh Steffes

SteffesThe Statue of Gilgamesh

As the wheels of the plane touch the ground in the Baghdad Airport, I unbuckle and rise out of myseat . I am scared but I know everything will be alright if we just stay with the tour guide. I tell my mother our adventure in the Middle East has begun.

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After that, a man walks up to me yelling “Jackson” (that is my last name). It turns out he is ourtour guide. I am surprised that I am with the tour guide so early, but it is good for me becausejust then I notice trouble going on around me. Some men in uniforms are yelling and screaming

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and pointing at me and I am freaking out. It looks like the men are angry with me. I sidestep acouple of guys and head for the door. Our tour guide leads us toward the exit as he tells me that Ihad crossed into a part of the airport forbidden except for the military.

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When we are finally out of the airport, my tour guide tells me to follow him. He brings me to aback street and tells me to wait for him as he goes to get the car. I suddenly hear a bunch of themilitary men behind me. I turn around and see the guys pointing a gun at the back of my head. Iscream and jump onto the ground.

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My tour guide pulls up in his car and yells to the what looked like the army leader in a language Ido not understand. Finally, the tour guide pushes me into the car and and we drive off. He turnsto me and says, “Nice to meet you. My name is Zaima. You almost spent your trip here in jail.”We drive away.

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The trip to my hotel is extremely fast. There are lots of people and I hear many languages, it’sreally cool. At my hotel I eat dinner and go to bed. In the morning I walk alone around the city andthen out into the country. In the country I see a huge tunnel that at first looks scary, but I decide togo in anyway.

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As I step in I realize that the tunnel is super tiny, but I can see the other side. I decide the onlyway to go is forward. As I crawl through the tunnel, I realize there is a grand opening in the cavethat I think is the end. Suddenly, I step out into a huge maze. Again I decide the only way to go isforward so I step into the maze and get to the middle by taking three right turns.

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In the maze I step into the center. “Finally” I huff. As I think about going forward, I see a bunch oflarge bumps in the ground. I decide to dig into the ground and try to find whatever is in theground. As I dig up the biggest bump, I pull out a huge statue of what looks to be a king.

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I rush back into town with the statue and start to say to the nearest man I see “do you...” Before Ican finish, he cuts me off and screams, “Amazing. Truly miraculous.” I am so amazed at mydiscovery (of whatever the heck this is) I shout out with joy. I want to see if it is really actuallyvaluable structure. “Seriously do you happen to know what this is, sir?”

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He gasps as if this statue makes him short of breath. “That is the Statue of Gilgamesh.” I am sosurprised I found a piece of history that I almost forget that my plane takes off in ten minutes.

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As I sprint through the airport I muscle my way through some people and my mom and I barelyhop on the plane before it takes off. I am so happy to be in the plane that I barely remember thestatue is still in my backpack. I hug it and then go to sleep. When I finally wake up we are all theway in Houston again.

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Finally we get home and I start to study my statue. My statue has many cool features like theanimal in his arms. On my first day in school after my vacation, my Social Studies teacher says“and nobody has ever found the Statue of Gilgamesh.” “That is not true, I have it right here andhere is the story about the time I found the Statue of Gilgamesh.”

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My adventure to the Statue of Gilgamesh was a great one. I love that you could hear about myadventure in the journal I wrote, while I was there.

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