Belle89's Blog

Hi, good morning everyone hope you all had a good sleep last night. I just had my breakfast and I really did enjoy my meal because it was so delicious. Breakfast is the most important meal of the day as it supplies our body with the energy that we need to start our day. I hope that you are all aware of this important fact. Well today I would like to share a few of my favorite food that I enjoy eating the most.

My craving for sweets has never stop since my childhood. Till today I can still eat as many sweets that I like and not having any toothache. Most of the sweets that are available in The Roman Emperor are usually made with honey. Even at times with the mixture of cheese and honey. My favorite sweet is the “coki-cuki” sweet that is very sweet and crunchy at the outer layer and creamy in the inner part. As the daughter of Augustus, my dad always commands his guards to have plenty of sweets at the palace so I could eat them when ever I want to.

I am also a very health concern person. I make sure that I do eat lots of vegetable and fruits as it keep my body healthier. Vegetable and fruits that I like eating the most is cabbage, lettuce, cherries, plum, and grapes. I also love mushroom sup when I eat it with bread. Usually, I will have it for my breakfast as I prefer eating it in the morning.

Where else, during lunch I try to eat a little bit more than my breakfast but it would make me fell sleepy. So I will have something like a little cooked meat – ham or salami, salad, cheese, hard-boiled eggs, vegetables and bread. Besides that my other favorite food is pottage. Pottage is a kind of thick stew made from wheat, millet or corn. Sometimes they would add cooked meat, offal or a sauce made out of wine.

I also enjoy eating nuts like walnuts, almonds and chestnuts. I prefer eating them after my dinner while I am reading a book or while writing my diary.

So those are some of my favorite food that I enjoy eating the most. I got to go for now as I am supposed to attend an important event and I have to get dress up. That’s all from me for today.

sources:

http://www.historyonthenet.com/Romans/food.htm

Being the daughter of Augustus is not as easy as what people think. Imagine myself having no freedom on whatever that I want to do. Each and every single thing that I did, weather it was right or wrong my dad always nags me. Even though he’s a good, loving and caring father, he is a very strict person and also protective over me. I’m always been protected and watched by the Romans guard as it was not safe for me to go out anywhere. At the palace the Romans guards can be seen almost each and every angle of the palace protecting everyone.

Besides that, I also do get the best out of everything, like I am been taught by the best teacher available in The Roman Emperor. My dad has given me the best education in Rome. But at times I do get frustrated because I am suppose to learn each and every thing, my dad would never say no for a answer if I’d had ask him the permission of not learning something that I don’t like. It can be very stressful too. I also have to learn the ways to speak to people, the language that I use when I speak has to be correct without any mistake and I also have to treat people that I meet differently according to their status.

The clothes that I wear are made from expensive materials. My closets are full with lots beautiful stolas and most of them are very heavy when I wear it. I am supposed to look beautiful and elegant whenever I go for any function.  Even though when I am at home I have to look pleasant. Every day I will wear makeup and lots of jewelery with beautiful stolas. At times I do love dressing up when I have the mood of it. It can be fun but most off the time I don’t get the opportunity to pick what I want to wear, I have to wear what is given to me.

I am also not allow to speak to anyone that I don’t know, even those that I know I am still not allowed to speak to because my dad doesn’t allow me. He is concern about my safety as there are many people out there that are jealous of him, so he is afraid that people could harm me. I only have Antonia as a friend that I can talk to and also not forgetting my brother, Tiberius who has always been there for me.

I guess that’s all I got to say for today as I am feeling sleepy. So till next time, good night and take care.

I have live in this world for 19 years. Too many ups and downs in this short lifespan. Yes, I am part of the nation’s greatest patricians. My father is the famous Augustus, thus I got every single thing that I ever wanted. Except for one thing, the one thing that my pitiful soul is yearning; Freedom. Being a daughter of the greatest emperor does not allows me to do what my heart told me. I am like a bird in a golden cage. My eyes are free to roam wherever it please, but my body and soul stay still. Being a daughter to an emperor makes it much harder. Every single place I went with my whole group of nannies, I was never be free from others’ eyes. They will observed every single thing I did, and when I did something that they think was wrong, the next thing I knew I was called to meet father. Lucky me, father will never punish me for what I did wrong but I cannot stand his lecture. He would remind me of who I really am, over and over and over again. I can even memorize most of his lecture, or should I call it nagging.

In my entire life, I have only met one true friend. The one who always speaks the truth to me, the one who always listens to my inner thoughts, the one who always there for me; Antonia. She is one of my nannies, and she is only a year older than me. She is like a mother to me as we grew up together. She took care of me when my mother, Empress Livia Drusilla was extremely busy attending her everyday committee meeting with the Senates’ wives. She is the one stays with me day and night when my dearest husband died a year ago.

When I was 15, father arranged me to get married to one of the Senate member’s son, Romulus. At first, I was against the marriage but as time goes by, Romulus turns out to be a good and loving husband. And I could not be more grateful. However, a year ago, a few months after my 18th birthday, Romulus passed away. I was not in a right state of mind for a few months after he passed away.

Luckily my brother, Tiberius and Antonia support me up until this day. Now I am back as I were before, with a much more stronger will to be live a free life. Tiberius is my elder brother, mother’s first son with her previous husband. Though he is my half-brother, we are very close. Too bad for him, he had to marry father’s first daughter, Julia. I don’t really favor Julia though she is my half-sister, and my sister-in-law too. She is too outspoken, too free and scandalous. She is free to do her own will, despite father’s disagreement towards her behaviour. She has been scolded and punished tons of times because of her mischievous acts. To be honest, I am jealous of her. I wanted to be like her; she is free. Both physically and spiritually.

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