Iris Hound D2

The boys' reaping went down pretty well. Yoko volunteered which was tightly followed by his 2 counter-parts. There were no more male volunteers which was quite surprising the seeing as us girls had 8.

I'm eating with Harriet, Fuschinnia and Yoko, the other 2 boys aren't with us for some reason. The Capitol made an enormous training centre for each district so this is where we are getting in last minute training before our mini-games. I haven't been training too hard because I am by far the best. I'm going to win it. Become the tribute from District 2 for the Capitol games and become the greatest victor ever. This first round will be a breeze. I'm setting myself the target of winning it in 3 days. I've teamed up with Harriet that we'll kill Fuschinnia on the first day. Harriet only agreed after I told her a bunch of lies about how Fuschinnia was talking behind her back but made it clear that she should act like everything is normal. Fuschinnia would be the hardest to kill anyway so I may as well kill her first. I can kill Harriet last unless she isn't already dead.

We finish and go and practice our hand to hand, I'm owning and clearly intimidating my fellow tributes. After about 2 hours of solid stabbing, lunging and hacking away at 5 different trainers from the Capitol I'm done. I'm not too tired but my "friends" look exhausted. Another reason why I'm the best and deserve to win. Even Yoko is exhausted.

I leave early without eating dinner because I know that I will need an early night. Tomorrow we go into the games. Tomorrow I kill Fuschinnia. I say goodnight to her. I then go over to Harriet and ask her subtly if she's still in. She says yes. I hope she and Fuschinnia haven't got something else going on. I'm going to give Harriet a horrible death if she betrays me. I'm going to carve shapes in her face with a knife and get a burning hot poker and jab her face with it. It's gonna make the Capitol love me. They'll all love it to bits. I go to bed. In 3 days I will have won the first round. In a month, I will have won the 100th Hunger Games.

Connectus Jones D3

I've been trying to train as much as possible. I mean I know I'll die in this first round but I want to go out with a fight. I'm 14, I won't win. I'll probably end up going out in the bloodbath. A good thing about being from District 3 is that we're not really known for our victors. Nearly everyone from 3 is completely inadequate at combat. This mini-games will be an absolute joke. The only district that has had less victors than us is 12 with 4, we've had 5 at the same level as District 8. 1 has had the most, followed by 2 then 4. The career districts. Thank god there won't be any careers in this one, I'd be dead in a matter of seconds. It's 7pm and training closes at 9. Most people are going to bed now but I need to familiarize myself with the berries and climbing trees. I go over to the berries section and talk to the instructor who helps me out and tests me. I score 100% and I know I won't be dying from eating poisonous berries anymore. I go over to the tree section. I'll need to be able to climb. I'm not fast and even though we're a terrible district, there's bound to be a pack of the best people and they'll pick off the weak ones like me so I'll need to be able to climb otherwise I'm dead. And although our district is desert, who knows what this arena will be like? There is a high chance though that it will be desert but I'm not willing to risk it and not learn how to climb a tree.

Earlier I got a good hang of the machetes. I place my bets on acquiring one of them.

I find it really hard, I'm only just getting the hang of it when they tell us it's time to go to bed. Well, let's just hope that there's no trees in the arena. They always put something out for people to get away from people in. Like a cliff into a river or something.

I go to bed with confidence. Tomorrow I'll be OK, it's just a question about the days after.

Kathy Jaboodi D5

Tomorrow we go into the games. It's the evening and I'm so scared. I'm going to die tomorrow. I've spent the whole day trying to work out how to use these weapons properly but I just can't find anything to suit me. I'm terrible. I'm going to die within the first 2 minutes. I just know it.

It's 8pm and training closes at 9. I just want to get in another session with the throwing knives. Out of everything I was best at these. This last hour has been so useful. I'm now getting on target! I got 1 in the head of the dummy. I thought it was a fluke but did it again 6 more times! I just need to get a knife tomorrow morning and then maybe I might win for our district. Don't get ahead of yourself Kathy I keep telling myself. Don't get ahead of yourself. Get past the first day. Even that'll be a struggle. Just get a knife. Then you'll be fine. Just get a knife. Get a knife. A knife. A knife and you'll be fine.

Heather Morris D7

For the past 2 days I've been screaming and shouting for them to let me out. This is absolutely absurd. A person of my status going into the games. This is disgusting. I'll be stuck in an arena with those plebs for god knows how long. I'll probably end up contracting some sort of disease. They won't kill me though. They wouldn't dream of killing someone of my status. Never. I'm way more superior that them. Ugh. Get, me, out, of, here, now. I haven't payed any attention to the training though. I don't care. I could kill this lot with my eyes shut. Even if someone did kill me and they won from our district, daddy would definitely have them executed. I saw Lucy Sycamore earlier today and told her that I'm going to kill her. She smiled and threw an axe at a dummy which landed in it's head. She's actually turned out to be quite the fighter, even though she's only 12!

I'm eating alone. For some absurd reason, my friend Alice has deserted me. Said she wanted to train and try and survive. I said, 'Look it's obvious that I'm going to have to kill you, face it you're going to die, now go and get me some more cake,' and instead of doing what I asked her to, she said stormed off and called me a bitch. How rude! I've done nothing but be nice to that insolent little girl. I even offered her a spot next to me on the bus to school one day, I mean everybody wants to sit next to me on the bus, I'm the most popular person in the district. It's 8:30pm and most people are going to bed, we're going into the games tomorrow. I don't need to go to bed. I don't need sleep. I'm going to win this thing. I could do it with my eyes closed. I'm going to give that stupid little Sycamore girl and slow horrible death. I've already told her I will. Now I come to think of it, this will be fun. Yeah. This is going to be fun. A chance to kill all the insignificant retards of the district.

Danny Draddock

I've been training frantically for the past 2 days. I need to try and survive. I'm pretty good at survival. I know all the different types of berries (the poisonous and edible), how to make a fire and how to climb a tree if I'm in trouble. I won the 100m at sports day at school 2 years ago so I think I'm fast but when faced with someone charging at me with an axe I don't really know how I would react. I don't know if I would instinctively run or just stay still in fear, waiting for death. But anyway, I haven't been working on my speed or survival at all. They're my strong points, what I need to do is work on my fighting.

I've built up quite a good skill with the throwing axes and I'm quite good at them. With the still targets I'm alright and always get them in the chest or head which is obviously enough to kill someone. However for the moving targets, I only ever get their arms or legs so what I think I'll do is try and hit them when they're running, hit their arms or legs which would be enough to make them fall or stop running. Then throw at the non-moving target.

I just need to go into the cornucopia at the start and get a bag of axes. The game-makers asked us what our preferred weapon was and if they thought that it was our best weapon, they would put it in the cornucopia. I just hope they think I'm good enough and don't put the axes too far into the cornucopia. The cornucopia is always a deathtrap for tributes. If I was against careers I would definitely die getting the axes. The careers have trained for this their whole lives. I need to get an early night because I'm going in tomorrow and I'm going to try my hardest to win it. For my district, but mainly so I can see my beloved mother again. I can't leave her alone in this world like my father and brother who both died did to us.

Katniss Everdeen D12

I haven't been able to do much in the way of helping people. I built up a list in my head of who I was going to help but we're not allowed to see them. I've been looking at the girls but only one really stands out, an 18 year old called Zoe, she seems nice so can get sponsors if she gets through to the Capitol games however sponsors aren't allowed in these games. She is very good at hand to hand combat and accidentally seriously injured one of trainers by hacking a sword into their side. She was extremely sorry and hasn't stopped crying since. I dearly hope she doesn't cry when she kills people tomorrow. This makes her look vicious to the other contestants which is very good, intimidating others is what it's all about. Get inside their heads and you're already half the way to killing them.

On the boys side I like the look of that 16 year old called Blake Jenner. I think he shows some really promising characteristics. I need an early night. I'm absolutely shattered. Tomorrow will be a big day. Seeing all those kids die horrible deaths. I am definitely not looking forward to it.