Reading and thinking to read the text and answer the questions. A successful failure purse blackboard joined an expedition with sir ernest shackleton to at article on the ship endings in our teen, shackleton was one of the most famous explorer of his day, and IT was considered a great honour to be part of his expeditions. Below are some of blackboards diary entries. thirty first october nineteen fourteen. Well, it's so happened that one morning I bought a newspaper and read the advertisement about the antartica, an extradition to the south pole with a great sun ness shake to. This is the adventure that I have been dreaming of, and I was ready for IT at the age of nineteen. I am fit and full of vigor. However, when I applied to join the expedition, shake to turned me down because he thought I was too Young and wasn't qualified, but I was so enthusiastic about the idea of going along with them that I secretly went aboard his ship, the endurance, and hit in a small, unfortunately, three days after we set off, I was discovered, shared ter did not want to turn back, so he offered me a job, but only after he promised me, if anyone has to be eaten, then you will be the first. He assigned me to be a steward, and I now serve meals for twenty eight men three times a day, how everyone will envy me when I come back and tell them about the amazing places I have been to twenty first, november one thousand and fifteen. The journey has not been easy in dance became stuck in the ice as we approached to antarctica. The ice throws around us, and we were well and truly stuck. We saw the ship get crushed by the ice. And when the ship sank, our heart sank with IT. Before we abandoned the ship, shake to calmly called us together and told us to rescue our most essential supplies, the small boats, our food, the cookstove, candles, clothes and blankets. This was no time to panic. We were not allowed to take most of our personal belongings, and shake toe himself threw away all his gold. But to our surprise, he allowed hussy to keep his benzo. Hussy often plays IT to keep our spirits up. We are now kept on the ice, and we have been managing to survive. But spring is coming and the ice will soon begin to melt. Twenty eighth, may nineteen sixteen. We have been struggling for days, but things on elephant island are going from bad to worse. We are now crowded together under one of our boats on the rocky shore of this miserable place. Soon after we arrived, shakil left us to find help on south georgia island, one thousand, three hundred and twenty kilometers away. The voyage was too dangerous and difficult for all of us to make IT in our small all boats. If shake to fails, will we have any hope of rescue? No, no navy in the world ever stops at elephant thailand, and no one else knows that we are here. I feel low IT, cold and windy. The island has no plans. Sometimes we are able to catch a seal or a penguin to eat, otherwise there is no food. I try to think of happier things, decent food, warm and dry clothes, cozy bedroom, Sunny days and my mother's face. However, these happy memories are soon interrupted by a southern cold rush air. I shouted, shut the door. Hold on now purse, don't you go turning into another tague came the reply, we've caught another penguin so it's penguin soup tonight bless Frank wild, the kindliest man there is after our leader, a shako how could I become a selfish and bad tempered Thomas od lease? Without Frank and ernest, we'd all be dead by now. They're genuine concern for others. Their perseverance and their resolve fill me with hope. Perhaps there is a chance we will return home after all.