Written for the Caesar's Palace Prompts (mundane) and the Challenges by the Dozen challenge at Caesar's Palace forum (post-canon).
Dear Diary,
I'm twelve years old and four days and I just got to Camp Halfblood. A nice girl named Piper showed me around, but she didn't show me everywhere because when I went back to the Mess Hall for dinner another new girl asked me if I had seen the strawberry fields, and I said no, I didn't even know they existed.
Why would she avoid that place? Maybe she forgot.
Today was a pretty boring day. This is like a summer camp except I get to train with real weapons. At my sleep away camp at home I learned how to shoot a bow and arrow and how to fish in a canoe, but they have real swords here!
This other mean girl made me do the dishes after I broke one of the rules at training. Apparently you're not allowed to pretend your sword is a pogo stick.
Maybe tomorrow will be more interesting.
Dear Diary,
I can't believe today.
I'm at a summer camp, not school? Chiron gave us a history lesson and I was like...but why am I learning this?
I already know a lot about the Greek myths because I read about them in school, and it's kind of weird that I'm a demigod, but I don't really care too much. What's the point of knowing? It's not like I'll have to adjust my life to fit this. My dad was never around anyway, and I'm still the same person.
I get that it's supposed to be cool since you're practically Jesus, but really? I get no cool powers since I'm a child of Zephyr.
The only thing I'm grateful about is the fact that there aren't any monsters anymore. Some heroes from the Giant War finished them off for us. I don't think I could stand a monster down.
Dear Diary,
I'm learning more about myths and I just really hate the gods. I don't know if they can read my mind, but I really can't believe they would just leave their kids to fend for themselves and that they would just mess around with fate and curses for no reason!
No wonder the titans wanted to overthrow them. But if it came down to it, I probably wouldn't want a child eater to be the ruler of the magical world.
One of the heroes from the Giant War told us about her demigod experience and it sounded terrible. I can't imagine living like that. I'm just a kid of a single mom, living my life while trying to go to college.
Dear Diary,
This camp is getting kind of boring. I don't have any siblings, being a kid of a minor god who I've never even heard about, and I wish I hadn't known about this place.
I don't want to be a demigod and told I'm something special because I'm really not. They talk to us like we're destined to be great but I can barely pass math class.
There's no reason why I need to be here and learn this stuff. There's no need for heroes, and acting like family with some distant relatives (I guess we're all related) is annoying.
Plus, being part of something I can't tell anybody about isn't fun.
No real point and it's a long way from home. I don't think I'll come back next year