March 31st

Dear Diary,

Today is the day before I start my pokémon journey. I decided to keep a diary because I want to capture the memorable moments I create during my journey. Oh how silly of me, I forgot to introduce myself. My name is Grace Taylor, and I'm 10 years old. I am an only child, but my parents disappeared seven years ago. Don't worry though! My best friends mom has been taking care of me ever since I was 3 so I'm fine! Her name is Delia Ketchum. She's awfully nice! She cooks the greatest food in the world! No wonder I always eat everything! Even Ash eats everything!

Oh, sorry. Ash is my best friend, and has been so since we met seven years ago! He's really competitive, hot-headed, and sometimes a little impatient! But besides that he's awesome! We're awfully alike, like we both want to be pokémon masters more than anything! And we're really competitive! We even have the same rival! Grr… Gary Oak. The boy-snob of Pallet Town. He thinks he's AMAZING AT EVERYTHING!!! When we were kids we all went fishing, and Ash and Gary both found an old pokéball. When they snapped it in half after fighting over who would get it, they both kept their own separate piece for themselves instead of sharing. You wouldn't think that would affect me would you?

Well, on a separate occasion, we were at Gray's eighth birthday party, we were playing Pass the Parcel. When it was my turn the music stopped, and I unwrapped the final piece of paper to find a beautiful charm made of sea-shells. I held it when the boy sitting next to me bumped me hard and the charm shot from my hands into Gary's lap. I glared at him as he cheered. "Hey this thingy-mi-bob is cool! It's mine now!" I ran over to him and grabbed it. "Hey that's mine Gary! You can't have it!" He pulled on it. "It's my birthday I get whatever I want!" I kept on tugging at the charm. "I don't care! I won it fair and square Gary!" "But it's mine!" "No it's mine!" "MINE!" "MINE!" We ended up pulling at it so hard the charm tore from it's string. I held the shells in my hands. Now look what you've done Gary! You broke it!" Gary held the lilac and blue rope in his hand. "I didn't do anything! You're the one who broke it!" "No you did!" You did!" "You did!" We ended up keeping our own pieces of the charm for ourselves. I still keep it with me, just to prove that I didn't just forget about that day, even if it was his birthday! Hmph!

Anyways, on to moi! I'm 10 years old, as I said before, and my birthday is on March 27th. I like pokémon (OBVIOUSLY), friends, playing outside, reading, video games, sports and stuff! I don't like pokémon poachers, evil people, snobs, and Gary! Well, Gary is someone I can stand a little, but the rest is a big NO-NO!

I can't wait to start my pokémon journey! I'm actually travelling with Ash! We're gonna become pokémon master together! We can only go now because we're now 10 years old. Ash turned 10 on March 22nd, and I turned 10 on March 27th. I can hear Ash's TV still booming from the next room. He's been dying to watch a documentary focused on Professor Oak, a pokémon professor who succeeds in writing many pieces of poetry, explaining the process of new pokémon trainers and how they pick starter pokémon. The three starter pokémon in the Kanto region are; Bulbasaur, the grass-type, Charmander, the fire-type, and Squirtle, the water-type. I wonder what type I'll get. I guess I'll have to choose. I might get Bulbasaur, but then again, Charmander sounds really cool… I'll go with Squirtle! It's the cutest, and yet, it looks pretty powerful!

Anyway, it's late now, and Delia just told Ash to go to sleep so I guess I have to do the same.

Talk to you soon!

Grace.