The sun was coming up and for a second it actually felt warm but then you had the blistering wind reminding me I was in the south pole. I was leaving for republic city today as master Katara third grandchild was born and she wanted me to accompany her, she likes it when I can relax and be a child for once and not training to master all four elements on a daily basis.

I had been learning to master the elements since I was five years old. At the end of the day I can wine and moan about the training but the way I see I can bend all four elements, well three at the moment but I am the Avatar and if I'm honest it's all I've wanted to be. It's allowed me to travel under the watchful eye of the white lotus but they are so easy to get around allowing me to explore.

Katara was calling as it's time to leave, I rushed out and there she was with all these bags with a big grin on her face she was so happy about this trip. It's her youngest son third child and she hoping for him to be an air bender like his two sisters as they have to populate the air nomads somehow I guess.

The boat was huge and to my surprise my mum and dad and my little sister were there to wave me off. This was the only con of being the avatar in training was I didn't get to see my family as much as I would like but they understand and hey they have another kid to look after so it's not like there lonely.

Last time I was on a boat this big was when I visited the old fire lord Zuko before he abdicated and gave the throne to his daughter. He was a lot nicer than I expected with all the hunting aang and then becoming friends etc. He taught me a few fire bending tricks and a bit with the dual swords which was my favourite part of the trip as well as meeting Iroh. Me and Iroh use to go off and explore and somehow end up in trouble just because I did not have a supervisor, I swear the white lotus take this looking after the avatar to a whole new level.

We have arrived at Air Temple Island and it only took us 12 HOURS on a boat and only 6 hours of it was rough sea where I had to help bend the waves to stop the ship from capsizing. To be fair I think it was worth it to see everyone so happy about the news of a healthy baby boy. I'm not too sure of the name Meelo it's cute and he looks like it can pull it off.

I wanted to ask Tenzin about air bending but I thought against it as I didn't want to be the person to break this happiness of everyone. I thought I would go have a look round the island escorted by the air bending girl Jinora and Ikki, Jinora had a lot of knowledge about the place and Ikki had a lot & I mean a lot of questions for me by the time I went to answer she would shoot me another question.

Night had come and everyone is already planning a celebration party on the island tomorrow, I was hoping to visit the city itself but when I mentioned it I got a 45 minute lecture from the white lotus for all the reasons I am not allowed supervised and unsupervised, so I nodded in agreement and gave up… well for now.

I woke up to see a blue dress hanging on the wardrobe with a note from katara, it read to Korra a beautiful dress for a beautiful avatar. I f I am honest dresses are not my favourite things but as it's from Katara and it was for her grandchild party, I didn't put up a fight and just put it on and got on with the day.

All that kept going through my mind was it will take 20 minutes to get to republic city and 20 minutes back I wonder how long I can be gone for and not get noticed? Everyone still has that happiness about them and are just happy talking to people they usually can't stand. Also there are so many people here I think I could be gone for an hour or two and no one would look that much into it.

I saw my chance and went for it I water bended myself an air bubble and ran into the sea. As soon as I touched the ground I spun round to see if I could hear screams or see boats coming towards me in a panic but nothing I had got away with getting here.

I started walking around and soon enough I was a tad bit lost but I was just in a trance about the whole place it so different to the south pole and fire nation as it had all the different culture from all the nations combined… it was amazing.

Then suddenly I had someone tug me and pulled a knife on me. I wasn't scared but a bit shocked this happens here. Then I was pushed against the wall and I was thinking to myself and was not paying attention to the person pinning me to the wall with a knife to my gut. "what did you say" is probably the not the best thing for me to say as he just banged my head against the wall with him telling me to give him all my money.

Then someone grabbed the guy off me and threatened him with his fire bending if he did not disappear then and there, surely enough he did. "I didn't need your help" not my proudest moment I must admit but I am a bit stubborn and don't like to be helped being the avatar and that I am meant to be helping people. "it looked different from where I was standing" acknowledging my arrogance I apologized and said I am not use to receiving help. He smiled and asked for my name, I was unsure to give my real name and said Katie, examining him he was very attractive and looked a tad bit older than me.