Accepting Christopher Columbus

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Have you ever met Christopher Columbus? Today I am going to meet Christopher Columbus, and tell you all about it. Christopher Columbus has alot to show and talk about. Today I met Christopher Columbus at the dinner table that was honored to him by a Spanish gentlemen. We talked about how it was when he sailed across the ocean, and how it is been with being so famous. We also ate very good food. There were also some jeoulas people there. The people that itended were being so rude they were just so jeoulas of Columbus. They would way how “anybody can sail across an ocean,” and how they dont understand how everyone likes him because he discovered strange lands beyound the sea. But after all that talk Christopher asked if they could stand a

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