User blog comment:District3/D3's Mentor Games/@comment-5082922-20130406130003

Dear Mel,

I am very happy that I get to mentor you. I am really sorry for what happened to you that you ended up here and on your last year of reapings even. At least we know that this means that a younger girl weren't reaped, so always remember you took the spot for someone else. Now I do not plan to see you die, you got a whole life back home that you gotta get back to so let's get this going!

Now the training is next and this si a golden oppertunety to learn something about the games. I do not know your past, and I do not know what you have worked with but since you're 18, you should already have devolped some hidden skills in your past. I want you to keep them hidden, whatever you have learned in your life, because those skills could become useful. I know you're good with the swords and spears but I don't want anyone else to know that, so that your fellow tributes may think that you're weaponless when you really aren't. I have thought about which other stations you should go to. Instead of showing off your skills, I want you to learn something new.

I want you to go to the agility station first. Agility will always be a useful skill to escape and attack too. Since you're an 18-year-old you're gonna be taller than most tributes and so it would be good to pratice this skill that would hinder your tallness of getting in your way.

The other station I want you to go to is Edible plants. It will be hard to survive without anything and you can not stay to grab too many things in the bloodbath. So edible plants would be a great skill to learn. It can also be used for killing. Knowing which plants are poisioning could beocme a nice advantage. And you being from District 6, I do not know if you have been so much with nature, and I do not want to risk you having to eat soemthing that could be potentionally posiounous.

Now there's some station I do not want you to visit and I think I have some good reasons why. The first stations are the Strength and stamina stations. Being 18 year olds you are already gonna be having a great advantage on that point because of your size. A 15 year old may be more flexible and stealthy than you but not stronger or more enduring. Also, having used swords and thrown spears you already should have great strength and a sword is very good against an opponent who's stronger than you. Because of your stronger body your stamina should also be good. As an 18-year-old your body is fully developed and although there will be tributes with better stamina, you will still be one with a lot even without visiting the station. If I had to choose another station, I would choose survival skills but we sadly can't. Your will have to rely on your instints, but they can actually do quite a lot for you and you will still be able to feed yourself with edible plants. I will have to sponsor you with the nessairy survival gear you may need, and I will. But at least, as an 18 year old I assume you live alone, which could make you more responsible and help you surviving alone.

As the biome station I have done a bit research on where District 6 is located and it seems to be located in North Panem near a lake. Because of this, I assume that you're used to cold, mountains in the north and lush lands because of the lake. But you may not be used to heat or  tropical enviroments so I want you to visit the "Desert biome" and "Tropical biome" so that if the arena looks like that then you would know what to do.

Your mentor,

Anna