Hunger Games Retelling

Author's Note: This is my retelling of the Hunger Games I thought it was good but please comment and tell me what you think!

16 year old Katniss Everdeen is the main care taker of the Everdeen family. During the reaping her little sister is chosen to participate in a T.V. show known as the Hunger Games. Katniss volunteers for her and is then taken into Capital custody, Katniss faces many problems throughout the games and has a chance to save another life, but can she do it?

My Trip to Jamaica

Author's Note: My piece is about the wonders of going to Negril, Jamaica. It was wonderful and if you want to know more keep reading and leave a comment about what you think!

Waking up to the sound of the waves crashing onto the sand every morning was amazing. Feeling so refreshed and rejuvenated and a little sunburn was the life. It was my second time coming to Negril, Jamaica that I will never forget. My parents have been to Jamaica 10 times at least. This year we went with another family and stayed for nine days it was just as enjoyable.

Every morning we would get up and go have a huge breakfast with endless buffets with beautiful colors of fruits and salads, breads, and desserts. I was always full till dinner time. After breakfast we would go back to our rooms and get our swimsuits on and head down to the beach. The parents would usually lie on the bright green lawn chairs and the kids would be in the water or down and the fish sanctuary. That area was beautiful; we spent most of our time there. There were fish everywhere, fish with every color you could image! Some were big; there were little ones, and fast ones. During breakfast we would grab some bread and take it down there, the fish would eat from your hands and they were everywhere. They were like bees swarming honey! One hot afternoon we were down by the sanctuary and I had some bread in my hand feeding the fish. I was videoing the whole think with a waterproof camera, I was thinking to myself hoping no crabs would come near me. Well guess what happened next, I turned and looked to my left and walking towards me was a big crab. I slowly got up and backed away the crab got scared and then went into its little hole. I was a little giddy after that because no one had gotten that close to a crab. There were also starfish and lots of sea Urchins those hurt a lot if you stepped on one, I did and I got a couple of the spikes stuck in my foot. When we were down in the sanctuary one afternoon a Jamaican who came back from fishing from the edge of the resort and we didn’t notice I was standing there looking at the water and I suddenly felt something scaly on my leg. I turned to look and they man had a giant barracuda pressed to my leg! I was so surprised but stayed still by then my friends and brothers came over and admired the man’s fish. We asked him what he planned to do with it and he said he was going to cook it up for supper. After that we went back to the beach to tell our parents.

By the middle of the afternoon around two we would go to lunch, we always had a big plate of fries and really nothing else, other than ice-cream after. We never really ate much because we were still full from breakfast. When we were done with lunch we would head back to the water for the rest of the day. We would leave around seven and go to dinner at about eight close to nine. Dinner was just as amazing as breakfast was, with buffets full of food! At night they would always have some form of entertainment for the most part we would go and watch but that was it. This happened most of the nine days but there were activities that we would go to such as snorkeling. We went out on a glass bottom boat so you could see the bottom of the ocean when we were driving. We saw tons of sea creatures, stingrays, fish, sea cucumbers, huge sea Urchins, and we even went through “Star Hollywood”, it’s a place where tons of starfish live the ground was littered with the giant starfish it was really incredible. When we arrived we got all of or gear and jumped into the water. I was first in and got to see the reef first. It was breath taking; there was fish everywhere all different colors and sizes. Starfish and Sea Urchins lay on the ground too. By the time I stuck my head up my brother Owen joined me and a couple of our friends that came to Jamaica with us. Owen made his way from the boat a bit and was look at the reef. I started to follow him but a second or two later he was above the water saying he saw a sting ray and it was still there. I swam over and sure enough it was really delicate looking just gliding in the water it was amusing to follow.

My trip to Jamaica was spectacular; the people were delightful and friendly. I think I came back with a couple more pounds than when I got there! I miss that place badly and hope to go there really soon.