Katniss begins cutting the branch with her blade. The trackerjacker's don't do anything because Katniss thinks the smoke from the fire knocked them out. After awhile she stops. She continues after awhile and the trackerjackers are awake and buzzing around which makes things alot more difficult. After getting stung more than once, the branch finally breaks and falls down and busts open. The careers quickly realize what is happening and try and run away everyone gets away but Glimmer who trips and falls and is then stung numerous times. The venom is going through Katniss also and she falls out of the tree she quickly goes to Glimmer to get the bow and arrow.

Katniss desperatly needs medicine to heal up her burn, and thankfully she got it! Haymitch got her a sponsor which got her the lifesaver. Soon after she applies it to the burn it begins to feel alot better and she puts the remainder in her bag. All of the careers are sleeping and all of a sudden Katniss is drawn to something in the trees, it's Rue the contestant from district 11. She points Katniss's attention towards a nest thats either full with regular wasps or man made trackerjackers. Rue does actions to let Katniss know she should cut the branch off so it will fall onto the careers. Katniss agrees because she knows it's the only way that she will get down alive.

In the morning Katniss wakes up to the trees around her on fire. She quickly rounds all of her things up and gets out of the tree. She then begins to try and get away from the fire, but the smoke is so thick it's hard for her to get a move on. Katniss know that this was of natural causes, the capitol made this happen for alittle more excitement. While Katniss is walking fire comes shooting from many directions. She never knows when she's safe and one got her in the leg. The pain she is feeling is terrible! She finally gets out of the fire and tries to tend to her wound but its no use, she knows only medicine will help her. All of a sudden the careers find her. Katniss hurrys away, but they see her. She quickly finds the best tree and climbs it. She's so good at climbing no one else can get up to her. Peeta suggests they just wait for her to come down and the rest agrees.

While Katniss is up in the tree she notices that someone close to her has started a fire. Soon later she hears screams and then all of a sudden she hears the sound of the cannon which tells the tributes some one has died. She then looks and sees the careers coming towards her along with Peeta. A feeling of disguist goes threw her when she sees Peeta. The careers soon make it very apparent that they are looking for Katniss and Peeta says that he saw her going this way. Katniss soon knows she is the main target.

Katniss begins walking great amount of distances and she really becomes dehydrated to the point she doesn't think she'll be able to make it much longer. She asks aloud to Haymitch to send her some water and when he doesn't she knows that must be a hint to keep looking because she's close to it. Haymitch is right, she quickly drinks alot of it and settles herself in a tree for the night.

The day of the games have begun. Haymitch gives Katniss one more bit of advice by telling her not to go into the cornucopia for weapons, that it's just a bloodbath. The last person she sees before entering the arena is Cinna who says if he could vote he'd vote for her. Once Katniss is in the arena she has to wait a minute before she can leave her pedistal. In that moment her thoughts go back and forth between if she should listen to Haymitch's advice or not. This got into her head because she saw a bow. She decides not to when she looks up and Peeta is shaking his head. She runs for a bag though which she finds alot of useful material. The next thing on her list is to find water, but thats not as easy as it sounds.

Before entering the games all the contestants must do a final interview. Katniss and her mentors realize that she isn't one for making the people like her for words but they try their best to get her so that she's as good as its gonna get. She does as good as job as any by twirling in her dress to show more flames. Katniss can't even come close to the greatness of an interview that Peeta has. He confesses his love for Katniss to the whole audience. Katniss is in shock and then she gets mad. Once they get to there living areas she throws him to the ground hurting Peeta's hands saying that he made her look weak but everyone disagreed and said it made her look disiarable. Katniss apologizes but still realizes she can't start liking Peeta as a friend, because she knows she'll have to kill him soon enough in the arena.

From where my last post left off Peeta and Katniss begin trying to get sponsors. This starts by them meeting their stylists and deciding what they're going to wear for their first appearance. The two of them wear matching black suits that will be lit to look like they are on fire. Everything goes as planned and no one is injured. I would be so scared, I don't think I could ever do that. This gets many people very interested in Peeta and Katniss. From there they start their training and they are strictly instructed to not show off their talents so Katniss has to stay away from a bow and arrows where as Peeta can't show how strong he is. They instructed to do everything together. They then perform their skills to judges and this is where they show off what they are good at and given a number between 1-12. Peeta recieves an 8 and Katniss recieves the highest score of all by getting a 11. She gets this from showing off her skills when getting agrivated with the judges for not paying attention and shooting at the area where they are located at and hitting an apple in a pigs mouth. 

Catniss Everdeen is the older sister of Prim, those two live alone with their mother because their father died a few years ago due to a mining accident. They live in a place called Panem which is divided into 12 districts and they live in the 12th one. Catniss awakes the day of the reaping (where a girl and boy is chosen to go to the hunger games which is where they fight to death) and goes to the woods. This is one of the only places she is comfortable. Catniss soon finds Gale one of her friends and they go out and get food. They talk about how they should just run away, that it'd be so much easier. Catniss comes back to reality and realizes that they can't do that. After they gather all of what they recieved they go and trade it at the market. Once thats done they return home where Catniss finds a very nervous Prim. She gets ready for the reaping and they take off. Catniss isn't worried that Prim's name will be chosen since her names only in it once, but somehow Prim's name is drawn. Catniss then decides to volunteer herself as tribute. The boy who is chosen is Peeta Mellark. Catniss has memories of him coming to her head of him giving throwing her bread one day when she was about ready to starve to death. Catniss and Peeta get an hour to say goodbye and Catniss visitors are her mother and Prim, Peeta's father the baker, the mayors daughter, and Gale. Catniss gives strict instructions to Prim and her mother on what to do. Gale and the baker promise to take care of Prim. The mayors daughter gives Catniss a pin of a mockingjay to remind her of her district. Later they go off to the train station where they take off for the capitol. Peeta and Catniss try talking to their mentor Haymitch but he's to drunk to talk till the next morning when they make a deal that he will stay sober enough to be a mentor because they have fight in them.

Presentation Review

Haley- You really let me know whats the right way in walking your dog. Maybe get a little more into detail about what everything is.

Bailey- Very good, wonderful details! Sound more excited!

Sarah-Good character. Shoes should be on, stand on two legs, and be more organized

Casey- Don't read right off what you wrote. Good ideas.

Taylor-You got alittle too in detail about somethings, some of what you put in there you could take out because it didn't do much for your presentation. Otherwise, good details.

Taya-You should probably stand up when your presenting so the attention is on you. Also make your text bigger so that we can read it. Alot of good details!

Logan- Know how to run powerpoint and don't bs as much as you do, we can't tell what you actually know and what you don't.  You kept us very informed about stuff in the sky

Zach- Don't read off your screen. You had very good details by telling us why you need the money.

Trip to Minnesota

My trip to the cities couldn't have been better! We left Delmont on Thursday for Sioux Falls because my dad wanted to take care of some business. We then stayed at a hotel and left Friday around 9. I was extremely excited, I always get that way when we are going to a game, usually I don't sleep but I figured since I was driving the whole entire way the next day I should get some sleep. It was a long drive from Sioux Falls but I did it and I drove in the cities even though I was extremely nervous. We made it safe and sound and arrived at about 2. We just talked for awhile before I went and got ready for the game. When I came up with my Rondo jersey on my cousin just shook his head and couldn't believe that I was a Celtics fan! The Target Center was starting to get packed, since the game was a sell out. We had really good tickets and I'm very thankful to have the cousins that I do so I can go to games like that. The Celtics won and my favorite player Rajon Rondo had 17 assists. Beast! By far I think that was the greatest game I have ever been to, so that beats all the Twins games I've been to. Vanilla Ice was our half time show. Friday we were with my cousin Dave. He took us to the aquarium in the Mall of America. I love that place and we haven't been there in a very long time. After the aquarium we walked around the mall and that was my hell on earth. I hate shopping, big places, and alot of people so that was not fun. Thank God we weren't there long! We then went to the Como Zoo. It was close to closing time so we didn't get to see alot of the animals but it was still a fun time. Later on that night we went out to eat at this place called Jax. It's in downtown Minneapolis and is one of the oldest fancy resturants in the cities. That was an experience. Everything was around $40 dollars. I ordered a ribeye. I was uncomfortable because i'm not used to places like that but it was still fun. We then went back to my cousin Dans place and talked for awhile. The next morning we left around 10 and I drove from their house to Albert Lea.