//------------------------------// // Day 9 // Story: Cinnamon's Journal // by Mocha Star //------------------------------// Day 9 Moonday Jan 18 2016 It’s called Monday on earth, but I like Moonday.  It just feels better.  I really wish today had gone as well as the others before the weekend but it feels like I’ve failed at my mission of bringing pride to Equestria.  I haven’t heard anything from Melody today and our helpers have been in meetings all day, there’s been a silence around us that’s left us feeling kind of alone… even our Facebook friends have been busy and haven’t wanted to see us.   I hope everything turns out alright…   We didn’t do anything really today, we just went through the motions and only the foals have been enjoying themselves.  Amber, Blueberry, and myself have been nervous and kind of on edge all day and the only fohn telegram we’ve gotten was from a person asking me if I was happy with my sex life. I replied and told them I was very satisfied and they didn’t respond again and Amber said I was the best she’d ever had and it didn’t matter that we had children together because even if she was barren she’d love me no matter what.  I nuzzled her because I finally felt better for the first time in the day and then I spent time playing with the foals and Lilli really likes daddy back rides.  Timber is a fan of pouncing, so we jump on things a lot. Melody showed up at nine and apologized but apparently she doesn’t work on the weekends and especially Sunday so we apologized for calling her on her rest day and she understood and we all hugged before our lessons began.  We learned a lot about human numbers but she didn’t know much about math, which was kind of disappointing because I like geometry most and Amber loves to use calculus in her daily life with magic usage. Melody didn’t understand us at first but then didn’t believe us that we were so knowledgeable about mathematics so we used human numbers and Amber showed her a basic algorithm for calculating the mass of the average fruit in an orange orchard and Melody didn’t believe us but said it looked hard enough to be real and took the math paper into her purse and finished our lessons. We are pretty good at speaking and writing English now, for a week of practice she said we’re almost through grade school and it’s amazing how fast we’ve learned.  I thanked her and said it was mostly because of our special talents and abilities.  I’m a nomad by nature so we learn easier and Amber’s a unicorn and she just learns everything fast, as long as it interests her. We got a letter from Melody before she left and said she wanted us to read it in private so she left it with us.  It held Princess Twilight Sparkle’s royal seal on the back and we were very nervous and almost didn’t open it, but we had to and when we did it wasn’t bad at all.  It was a letter from the Princess telling us that she had heard of our weekend and hoped it was as fun as it would have been back home and that we were certainly making waves across the worlds.  I was glad to read her letter and when I was done we placed it in our room in the nightstand and made sure to not wrinkle it. We were really curious to know if the humans that went over were behaving but we didn’t have a way to ask yet so we wrote a letter anyway and all signed it before folding it nicely and putting it in an envelope.  We planned to give it to Melody the next time we saw her so we wouldn’t forget we put it on the table by the door and were kind of happy to not see another bible, yet. We decided to read it over, the bible, and we skipped around some and the story was very poetic sounding but a very long read and I wasn’t into poetry that much.  Amber said she’d read it for a while and tell us what it was like and we all agreed with her plan so while she read the bible we watched TV. I wrote in my journal quickly between shows and spent a little time napping on the couch.  There wasn’t anything to do because it was still so cold out!  Melody had said later in the week that it was going to warm up some so we had something to look forward to.   Lunch came and went and we all were getting tired of what we had bought so we wanted to go to Walls Mart and do more shopping.  We asked our Facebook friends but almost all of them were at work or not even in the city or state, otherwise they would have driven us.  Sarah said she would and so we waited for her and she knocked very softly on the door. We said our hello’s in English and she patted my head and said hello in Equestrian.  We bundled up and left into her car but the car was too small for my whole family so Lilli and Timber stayed behind with Blueberry and we went to a store named Hugo’s instead and it was a nice enough market that had everything we’d need for the week. We bought a nice variety of foods and treats like cookies and pancake powder we only have to add water to!  Humans have thought of so much… why don’t ponies have instant pancake mixes? We got a few photographs taken and when we were all done we quickly went into the car and was glad it was warm inside because it was still cold as the Frozen North at night, only it was daytime. When we got home we invited Sarah in and she helped us put away our groceries then we sat and talked.  She had seen the photographs of us partying and even though we were embarrassed she said that it looked like we had fun, but having sex in public was a little more than she thought was okay. We told her that we were drunk and on herbs and weren’t thinking right, that we were sorry and then she hugged us both and told us it was okay.  That everyone does dumb things sometimes and we just didn’t know.  Then she told us about the right way to socialize with other people and to not focus on drinking and taking drugs.  Drugs are what they call herbs, pretty much. It was early in the evening still so while the young played we stayed in the living room and socialized, using English!  We were still not very good at speaking, but understanding is easier.  We forgot about going to a movie because we went out to party and Sarah said she’d take us to a good one right then so we said our goodbyes to the children and then laughed and told them they were coming, but they’d have to squeeze into the back seat. We got to the movie theatre that we’d seen before and it was called River Cinema 15, because they had fifteen screens… in one building, to show movies at the same time.  Why don’t we have this in Equestria?! We got popcorn and soda’s and for a few photographs we also got in for free!  The movie theatre was massive, like everything else humans made, and Amber asked if their penises were just as big or if they were compensating and we all laughed, except Sarah, she didn’t understand.  That might be for the best because humans seem to be as conservative as we thought. The movie was called Norm of the North and it was about a polar bear that went to Manhattan with some lemurs to build a building, I think, back in the arctic where he was from.  We really liked the movie and looked forward to seeing another next week, or sooner, but the rest of the movies they had looked terrifying. We got home and said thanks and goodbye to Sarah who hugged us again before she left and then we had a light supper because we ate a lot of popcorn at the movie. We took time to plan what to do with the basement and since herbs were illegal here we would have to grow something else, if anything, or turn the room into a family study room.  Celestia knows there’s enough here to learn. I wrote Princess Twilight a letter in the book she gave me about our weekend and she replied quickly telling us that everypony is entitled to have fun, but if we didn’t set a better example she’d have to see us earlier than planned or have us come home and another family replace us.  She did tell me that I was a very good pony and that was the reason we had been chosen to come here, so that made me feel better. We stayed up past our bedtimes talking about the movie and how we’d have to see Manhattan before we left earth, since they said we can do some travelling, then instead of going to bed we camped out in the living room and fell asleep to the TV playing some nice orchestral music.