Hello, my name is Kara O'Donnell and I am here to tell you my story. Now I will admit it may not be as great as Percy Jackson's but I will guarantee you for someone who lived their whole life normal, well it was pretty big. Either way listen closely because soon enough it might be you in my situation and it is my job to prepare you. So as I begin my tale be warned for once it starts there will be no turning back... I'm sorry I had to say that. Anyway enjoy the story!

I woke up at four o'clock in the morning. Unlike a lot of people I didn't really enjoy sleeping in. It made me feel lazy to sleep in. I mean I am a busy person, I can't spend all my time sleeping and slack off on everything else.

Anyway, today was the last day of school before the summer holiday. I was so thrilled for summer vacation. I was about to turn thirteen on June 29 and today was June 27. For my birthday I was going camping with one of my best friends Brooklyn McKinley. We were thrilled, it would be so much fun. Also once we got back we were going to have a sleepover with our other BFFWHWWBBFF (Best friends forever whatever happens we will be best friends forever) Autumn Gallacher. Everything was going to be so awesome. To top it all off Brooklyn would be turning thirteen the day before me! June 28! Everything was perfect!

I quickly got dressed in some denim shorts and a teal three finger tanktop. My school was very picky about the dress code for most people except for some (unlike me and much like my dear friend Brooklyn) the could show up for school in nothing but their underwear and bra and wouldn't be called on it! It was totally unfair but what can a girl do? I walked down to the kitchen and grabbed a granola bar. We had like fifty million packages of the bars, okay that might be a light exaggeration but point is we had a lot, so I am sure my parents wouldn't mind if I had some, well maybe they would since it was four o'clock in the morning. I quickly ate that and walked over to the desk where my computer was. I saw that over one night I had received ten emails. I looked at them and found that most of them were from Apple. I had just bought a whole bunch of things for my ipod last night. So I got the bill. One though was from Wesley King.

I was very proud to say that Wesley King, author of the Vindico, winner of the 2013 red maple award, was my penpal via email! It was rather awesome! His email was about possibly meeting again and about the book I am writing, sorry more like the three books I am that's right, I am writing three books. Why? Because my brain is so full of ideas if I don't do anything about it I will always be living in my own world away from real life, off in some mysterious lala land I dreamt up the night before. The solution was to make these ideas into stories and maybe make some money off of them if they get published. I have decided that my dream is to have a book published and written by the time I turn sixteen. But that dream always seems to be changing, so I wouldn't count on it but I am still going to try!

After I finished replying to him, for lack of anything better do I started looking through my pictures. I had pictures of all my soccer tournaments. I looked at the one from the Pickering allstar friendlies. We had fun at that tourny except for the fact that my dad was kicked out of one of the games for yelling at the ref. I laughed at the memory. I mean it was bad at the time but now it just seemed funny. I looked at my picture and smiled. I was in the front wearing my goalie uniform surrounded by my teammates.

I also had some pics from the math Olympics. Yeah, you heard right, the math Olympics because I am a mathlete. I know, I am a total geek. But I am not ashamed to admit my math skills, at least I will succeed in life unlike many many many other people I know. There were four of us in the picture, Me, Cameron, Tyler and Andrea. We didn't think we had any chance at winning because we'll we weren't very you know serious and we didn't think we were very smart and we had weird obsession with 16 keywebed not 16 cubed, 16 keywebed. Don't ask me why because I don't know, we are just weird like that, kay.

Also on top of being a soccer player, writer, mathlete, penpal to an author, I still have time to be an avid reader which helped me earn my place in every book club in the school and as the unofficial team captain of the battle of the books team. I also sing,dance and act. I can act well but my dancing and singing aren't the best. I don't expect to get a career in either of them.

Either way as I said before I am a busy person because I also keep up on all my schoolwork seeing as I get the top grades in the class, especially in math with a 98% in numbersense and numeration. So yes I am a nerd, athlete and creative artsy person all rolled into one, as I prefer to call it a jack-of-all-trades. I looked at the clock! I must have fallen asleep sometime without knowing! It's time for school!