This story is in Penny Fitzgerald's point of view.

I wake up one morning with my clock saying 5:00 a.m. "Just two minutes before my alarm goes off. That should be a record." I tell myself.

"Penny? Are you up yet?" My mother demanded. Her clock must be way ahead, because, now, my clock says the right time, unless if it is slow. I slip on my teal house shoes and race downstairs for my breakfast. Today was the day of our cruise field trip. I tried to sleep well last night, but, had no luck after reading Catching Fire. There was a chapter that gave me the willies, but that was yesterday. I must now worry about getting ready for my field trip.

"What should I eat?" I ask myself. I just fix myself some French Toast. After I am finished I go finish getting ready. I have to make myself presentable, and not look like a zombie from lack of sleep. I brush my teeth, make sure that my antlers were clean, changed shoes and put on a little make up. I look a little better in comparison.

"Are you ready yet?" My mother asked.

"Yes, I'm coming." I replied.

"Well, let's go. Miss Simian is probably on pins and needles."

I arrived at school about ten minutes later. "You have made good timing. Everybody else is on the bus for the field trip." Miss Simian said.

I ended up getting a seat next to Suzie. It was not the best seat on the bus because she was smacking her lunch. It is better than not getting a seat, that's for sure. To the seat next to me there were the eggheads. All that they talked about were computers.

"What's wrong? You look a little sick." Rachel said.

"I'm fine. It's just that I didn't get much sleep last night. ." I answered her.

I chose to take a nap, so that I will be fairly rested up. After an hour or two I am woken up and told that we were at the dock.

After I see the ship, I am shocked because it is huge. It was like we were riding a whale.

It took us about ten minutes to get on the ship, but it was worth it. I had a very pretty room and my roommate was Rachel. I was relieved that it was not Suzie. It would have been a nightmare if she was. I look out my port hole and there is a view of the nursery. Great. Now that I know that I will not be getting any sleep on the cruise, I feel worse.

"What's wrong?" Rachel asked me in a concerned voice.

"Look out the porthole." I said, gloomily.

"It's a nursery."

"I know, but, I had no sleep last night, and now this cruise."

"Why don't we ask to change rooms?"

"I am sure that it is too late, plus if we did, how much better will the next room be."

"Good point."

I feel the boat move. That means that we are now leaving. I know for sure that it is too late now, if we wanted to change rooms.

"You look like you have had a bad day. What's wrong?" Molly asked. I whispered everything to her, hoping that Suzie or the eggheads were not near us. "That's terrible." She said. I nodded.

"I am going to go take a nap, and hopefully I will get some good rest." I said.

Once I was back in Rachel and my room I went to bed for a nap. I had only gotten about four hours of sleep, when, suddenly, I heard the ships horns. There was a book about the boat on the wooden night stand next to my bed. I grabbed it quickly to find out what this is a sign of. There on page three, I had my answer. We were fixing to crash. I start to hug my pillow and panic. This has been quite a day for me. I barely had any sleep last night, sat next to Suzie and the Eggheads, will be having crying babies in the room next to mine, and now we are going to crash.

The boat starts to shake so much, I felt nauseated. After the shaking was over I leave the room and see we have crashed into an island. I hope that the way that I am walking does not make me fall overboard later. After I regained my strength I walk off of the boat and onto the island, curious of where I am. A voice behind me says, "hi, my name is Chris, and I am the host of Total Drama Island. We seem to have had a boat crash here." Chris said. "It looks like we have some more contestants."

"What do you mean?" I ask.

"You and your friends will compete on Total Drama Island with the other contestants." Chris told me.

"How many contestants did you have originally?"

"We had a total of 38."

"That is 38 and all 27 of my friends and me. That is a total of 65. Why don't we have everybody in a pair?" I asked Chris.

"Good idea, but that will be 31 pairs. I think that we should do two groups of 31, and still have the partners. That way if both groups have to do a partner activity, you would be prepared." Chris replied. "The only other difference is that if you get voted off, then your partner goes home too. This will be the first time in Total Drama history to have this done. I will give one person a sheet of paper and you find your partners?"

"You have got to be kidding me. Do you mean that I am going to team up with her? Why don't you team her up with Owen?" Duncan asked, disgusted. "They would be a perfect group."

"Sorry, that is the way that it will be."

"Who is Cody?" I asked, curiously.

"He is right next to you."

"Oh, your Cody?" I asked the guy next to me.

"Yes, I am." Cody said.

"Nice to meet you."

"Same here."

"Wait." Duncan said. "You have a group of three. You said groups of two."

"I did. Didn't I." Chris said. "I found that to make groups, we would need to make sure that nobody is excluded."

"I guess that makes sense."

"Any other questions?"He waits for a minute. "Okay, then, we start tomorrow."

"Wait, what do we do?" I asked.

"You do activities like you would do in the wilderness. We have different challenges depending on what the options of the day are. If you are experienced campers, this should be somewhat easy. Good luck." Chris said.