Amelia Earhart
Portrayed
by Jamie M.
February
2000
My Life as Amelia Earhart
Hello, my name is Amelia Earhart well actually it
is Mary, but you can call me Amelia. I am a very important American
because I have accomplished many dangerous flights, and because of my courage
and bravery. I was born is Aichison Kansas. My little sisters name is Murial.
She and I are always making inventions. I guess I could tell you
one story.
Well we were very bored one day so we decided to
make a roller coaster. We got some boards and nailed them together.
Then I leaned on the shed while Murial made the cart or the thing you ride
on. She made that by using her wheels of her roller skates nailed
to a board. I was the first to try it I rolled down and somersaulted.
I was lucky I didn't get hurt. A couple days later father came home with
a baseball and a baseball bat. We played all day!
When I was ten my family and I moved to DesMoins
Iowa. Soon my father had to go to California for his job. He decided
to take mother but not Murial and I. So we went to our grandparents
house.
Well I am all grown up now it is time for
me to go to college. I enrolled in Columbia University. I decided
I wanted to be a Dr. when I went to go visit her college in Toronto Canada.
After I saw all the wounded men during World War 1 I decided I wanted to
be a nurses aide. Many of the men loved me. I think that was
when I decided I wanted to be a Doctor. But later on I decided that
wasn't what I wanted to do. But what do I want to do?
After I took a ride in an airplane I decided
I wanted to be an aviator. So I took up flying lessons. I got
a teacher named Neta Snook. I called her Snookie.
Later on I set an altitude record of 14000
feet. But later on someone else beat it, of course it didn't discourage
me!
I was a passenger on the friendship and it
was taking me across the Atlantic Ocean! I would be the first woman
across the Atlantic Ocean! But to be modest I don’t think I should
have got all the fame, because I wasn’t the one flying the plane.
Later on I married George Palmer Putnum, we
loved each other very much. I called him G.P. and he called me A.E.
One day I got up my courage and asked George
if I could fly across the Atlantic Ocean-solo. He said yes!
You couldn’t believe how exited I was.
I’m ready. I took off. The scenery
was so beautiful! But I continued on to my flight. Later on
I was running low on fuel. Then I found two new problems. One
was the engines were starting on fire the other was there was a gas leak.
Then every thing went pure black.
I woke up only to find a farmer staring at
me blankly. I was in Ireland. I was alive! But still
that farmer seemed very odd the way her stared at me.
I won many awards for flying a across the
Atlantic. I went back to the United States. I settled down
a little while, but not for long!
Later I asked George if I could fly around
the world! He said “Well let me think about it, yes!”
I left on June 1, 1937, along with Fred Noonan my navigator.
We had to stop constantly to get more fuel.
But that is a problem because I also have to stop at Howland Islands for
gas. Since the Islands were so small we had a ship called the Itasca,
but that did not help I could not see the Islands they could not see me!
I guess that is it for Fred and I, but it
still remains a mystery of what happened to us. Some believe that
I crashed in the Atlantic but was almost to land. Some believe I
was captured by the Japanese. Some also believed Fred and I lived
on an island with a fisherman. But whatever happened to Fred and
I it remains a mystery.
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