Missing my tennis racket [Log 3]

Its been weeks now. I miss home so much. I wish i had my tennis racket with me. I miss playing tennis. Back home I used to play tennis every weekend with my Dad. I started playing since I was a little girl, and I have played since then. Plus playing tennis would have me stay in shape. Now I'm losing weight barely eating anything and I'm losing all my muscles :) . We decided to get in a circle with all the kids and we would pass around the conch. The person who was holding the conch could talk. The rest of the people had to be quiet and listen. Everyone would say something that they missed. When it was my turn I said playing tennis. That's how I got the idea of writing about my tennis racket. We have no food so we have to go looking for some. I will continue my journal later on.

Trying to stay strong

Its been about a week now that we have been stuck on this island. A lot of the little kids are getting kind of worried because some kids are making up rumors. Since I'm one of the oldest ones, me and the other older kids are trying our best to keep the little ones calm. We're good on water, we have lots of water. We usually shower with the water from the sea, and we drink water from the pond. We're finding some food, but not too much. We found like one animal, and killed it. We're kind of getting better at hunting for food. Since there are a lot of kids, we always seperate into groups of 3 or 4 to accomplish a task. I don't know how much longer I can stay here though. I miss my brothers, and my parents. It's around my brother's birthday now. He was going to turn 7. I wish we had cell phones, so I could at least say happy birthday. It's kind of getting late and I'm really tired from walking around today. I think I'm going to go sleep while the other kids talk, yell, and argue.

My first day on the island

Me and my classmates got stuck on an island in the middle of no where. This island is very pretty though. There are palm trees everywhere and all i see is green. We have no adults with us. We were all really thirsty and hungry so we went looking for food and water. We all split up into groups of 3. The first group [which i was in] went looking for food. We looked everywhere, we climbed up on trees, we tried hunting for food, and we even tried to make food from plants. The second group went looking for water or any other type of drinks. And the third group gathered some wood and ropes and started making tents, or shelter. We all knew that it was time to gather up in our gathering place when the leader blew the conch. And the leader blew it after about 45 minutes of looking for food, water, or making shelter. I really like our leader. She treats everyone fair and she knows common sense. Two guys in our group always fight. Their names are Edwin and Jack. Our leader Melissa stops them though. Because we all need to be on the same team to survive. Today was very tiring. I climbed up so many trees that i feel like a pro at climbing. We ate lots of meat too. I don't really like meat, but when it comes to ending your life, you gotta do what you have to do to survive. The guys are trying to make fire because it's getting a little cold. I hear Edwin and Jack arguing in the background. I will just go and try to help them i guess. It's almost night time. I hope the tents the third group made are comfortable :) .