Gordi animal carer

Gordi is a famous animal carer, here’s why;

Early Years

In 1837 Gordi was born in Cornwall but moved around quite a lot due to her parents’ jobs. she was always intent on looking after animals, she wanted to have pets, but she wasn’t allowed. Her mother and father worked in the Atlantic, to Gordi’s dismay they worked on large ships, moving valuable items, such as coal. Daily, they pumped out 36,875 gallons of smoke, Gordi hated it.

School

Gordi went with the intention to be good at science, PE and to be able to memorize maps. When she was older she wanted to go on great expeditions and she would need these skills. She sadly had only one friend as she was too interested in her grades to focus on her friendships. At the end of school, she was put out to only get a D in science and third to worst in PE. The surprising good grade was in cooking, she hated cooking, she hated it even more when the teacher suggested she could be a cook.

How she became famous

Gordi hatched a plan, when she was fifteen, to destroy her parents ships to save the oceans. She was caught mid-way through her plan and shipped to an island made of trash as punishment. She spent the next nine months snipping seaweed round the island and replanting it. She ate the leftover leaves for food while everyone thought she was dead. She escaped by weaving a raft and hitching onto a cruise ship and arrived in Mexico.

Mexico

Gordi found Mexico very different to Cornwall, they ate Chapulines (grasshoppers) and were very rude. She had no one to look after her so she had to fend for herself, she became an unknown street urchin. However, her once clean face was often on the front of ‘The Times’ Her old self known as ‘The Girl Who Disappeared’ but slowly became forgotten and turned into ‘Old news’ Gone, forever.

Gordi comes back

When she became eighteen she left Mexico and escaped on a train to Canada, feeling like a criminal crouching under a chair. She was found and thrown out less than halfway there, she found a tea stained newspaper shoved under a tree and used it to help a bird make a nest and decided from that day forward she would look after animals.

Adult life

She married in 1861 to Ben Kiran and had three children: Ted, Tina and Little Larry

What She Did

In 1863 she opened a conservational wildlife project improving lives of millions of animals around the globe. Gordi recited a medal of honor, but sadly, while trying to tame a lion, took a fatal bite and within seconds, was dead. She died in 1867 at age 26.