Day 5--07:27 Dorm 1-12B

Yesterday during lunch I talked to Raonie. She seemed rather shocked that I both noticed the tension between her and her friend, and that I cared. I guess I haven't been the nicest of people here, huh. Anyway, we were talking and she breaks down in tears, crying, "I dunno what I did! One day she just decided not to talk to me!" Wow, that has to suck. When I first got here, the were the best of buds. I guess maybe the tension is getting to Charamore (?) or something. Why else would she be so elusive?

"Just out of no where," Raonie continued to sob, "a couple days ago, she tells me that she would rather train alone. My best friend here ditches me. I only see her at lectures that are required anymore and lights out. She doesn't even come to the cafeteria I don't think," She looked around and low and behold, no wookiee. She looked down on her plate, its contents identical to mine, of what looked like pet food. Yummy... Anyways, I never had to comfort someone before, people were always comforting me and making me feel better. This was all new to me.

"Maybe she is almost done with her training and is preparing to leave us," I suggested.

Raonie just glared at me. "She came here after me, and that was only a year and half ago. We still have a bit to go yet."

I shrugged, and unhelpfully stated, "I don't know then. Maybe she just needs time to herself."

Raonie sat and sighed. "I wonder where she is at," she said to herself.

By then lunch was nearing its end, and to make Raonie feel better, said I would hang out with her next break. Maybe she could show my some of he nature trails or something. It cheered her up, so I guess it was worth the trouble. Too bad I HATE hiking. Then I dashed off for KP.

Afterwards, I met up with Master Skywalker. Today, I was to learn the basics of levitation. He set out an array of small odds and ends, a hydrospanner, a comlink, what looked like a cheese Danish and some keys to a ship. "Havoline," he replied again mispronouncing my name then, pointing to the stuff on the ground, "each one of these can be picked up using the Force." Duh! Even I, the most ignorant Jedi-Wannabe EVER knew that. However, being a good girl, just nodded and hoped he couldn't read the bad vibes of my mind. Closing his eyes, he reached out with the Force and the comlink rose into the air and let it hover in place, while I 'amazingly' stared. I saw this done many times at fairs, it was nothing new. Then I reminded myself to be less cynical and asked to try. "It takes a lot more concentration then you think" he commented, still watching the hovering comlink, then he sent it higher into the air and it spun around, just to let it drop then he caught it. "Show off," I thought.

"Maybe just a little bit," Master Skywalker said amused.

He read my thoughts! No fair!!

Putting the comlink back down, he told me to concentrate on one of the 4 things on the ground, and command the Force to make it rise. It looked so easy when he did it, that I thought, no sweat. It'll take a few minutes, I'll show him.

It took over an hour.

And it rose 3 inches, just to fall back down in the dirt. It was the Danish too. And THAT was Master Skywalker's snack. Oh well, good thing he believes in the 5 Second Rule. :P

Wow... this New, More Humble Me isn't developing fast.

To top it off, the lecture was on patience. I wonder who THAT was directed to. :P

After sweeping out the dorms, I found Raonie. She was reading one of the books Tionne let me borrow on the steps of our dorm. I didn't mind, It was a boring book anyways. :P Seeing me, she smiled, tossed it in the dorm, on my bed and we headed off. Because my ankle still isn't completely healed, Raonie and I weren't able to run down the paths to the forest for our nature walk. Poor kid. I think she was honestly disappointed, but I was grateful as hell. I'm getting enough physical conditioning though, especially when I miss the morning jogging and stuff. Maybe once my ankle totally heals, I'll ask Raonie her opinion. Remind me. And she was nice enough to pick the trail with the least incline, so I wasn't totally out of breath. Just mostly.

She showed me trees that lived here for thousands of years, different birds and other wildlife, and naturey stuff like that. Not necessarily the most fun I ever had, but the change was nice from the everyday routine of the Jedi Academy. Until I came here, I never paid attention to nature. It was dirty and cold. I guess I've been missing out. The bugs I could live without, but, you know what I mean.

As we kept walking, Roanie kept trying to start conversations, but I was breathless from walking and couldn't say much other then "pant, pant" or "cough," while she spoke a lot about Corellia. Poor kid lived in a bad part of the galaxy, believe me. I think she was trying to find more out about me. I didn't know whether I should speak about my royal status anymore. At first when I got here, I was pissed that no one knew who I was and my title. Now I just didn't want to talk about it. It didn't seem that important. Maybe I was becoming more Jedi-like afterall! Or maybe I just was afraid it would make me more a freak or something. I didn't want to lose my newly made friend. So, I just kept to coughing and nodding now and again. I was afraid I was frustrating her, so once we got back, with a few minutes to spare, I gave a very abbreviated version of my life.

"I'm from Ralltiir, and I have an older sister."

"You have a sister too? Bummer huh?"

"Hell yeah."

You know, its pretty cool having Ranoie around. Who'd have thought that being a little social could improve the day?

Then I had to run off to KP, while Raonie insisted on trying to look for Charamorie. I wished her luck. :) The poor girl didn't find her. :( And Chara-whatever didn't show up until after lights out. She even skipped the group lecture today. Should we be worried? What's gonging on? Should we talk to Master Skywalker about it? I'd think there was a rule against that. Well, I am meeting Raonie to demonstrate my new levitation stuff I learned yesterday, so I better go. I'll ask her her opinion of Chara-Wookiee then. She'll know what to do. :)