User blog comment:District12-Tributes/My Hunger Games/@comment-5082922-20120625182728

District 12 reaping day (female tribute)

Eileen: I woke up when heard a bird sing. Mockingjays repeating other birds songs. From my camp I could see the sunrise on the horizon. There I was alone in woods, sitting in my sleeping back and watching the sunrise. I wish I could stay in woods. The woods where my home now. I knew where game was, where all of berrybushes was and where all of the lakes where located. But this was one of the few days where had to leave it. The day of reaping was one of the only days I left the woods. When I left my aunts house I brought a reaping day dress with me. It would be suspesissos if I showed up in my dirty old forrest clothes. I got dressed and walked througth the woods. I never got why people would think this place was scary. These woods where fantastic! I crawled through a hole in the fence and walked to the square. They got my blood and then I walked to the area for 18-year-old. Our escort made her silly entré then, the movie where shown and then she walked to the ball of girlslips. She took one slip and read: "EILEEN SHADE". It took me a second to get that I would never see my woods again, and then I walked to teh stage