I see Nick above me. He's shaking me. I must be lying down. He has a deep cut on his forehead and a knife in his hand. Another figure appears above me. Nick looks up at the figure before getting stabbed by a sharp sword.

I hear myself screaming and then suddenly someone's whispering to me. My eyes open and I see Danielle and Nick kneeling beside my bed. Sweat is dripping from me and my eyes are wide with fear.

"Nightmare?" Danielle asks.

I nod. "We were in the arena," I whisper. "Nick was there and then someone killed him."

He looks down at the floor. "It's going to be okay," he says, looking at me again. They leave the room and leave me to get ready. A couple of minutes later I come into the main room. I sit down next to

Nick and eat the lovely breakfast that Danielle has prepared for me.

"Now that you're both here, I'll explain what I want you to do in training," Dale says. "Try everything, if you have extra time work on certain things that you don't do as well in." He looks at his watch and then starts walking to the training centre. We've got our training clothes on and are following him to the elevator. We leave the tribute building and go into another building close by which must be the training building. Dale leaves us and wishes us luck. I look at the clock. It's nine o'clock in the morning. Pretty late. I would have expected training to start at seven. I usually wake up at six because I have so much to do so it's very different.

Soon a lady comes to talk to all the tributes. "I'm Tia, your trainer," she says. "I will help you today and tomorrow so that you are ready when the Games begin. Firstly, you will have half an hour on each activity and we will rotate clockwise until you have finished all the activities."

She assigns activities to each district. Nick and I are starting at the climbing activity. There are lots of climbing nets and trees to practice our climbing skills. There are even large boulders. I start on the climbing net while Nick attempts to climb the boulders. I see him struggle a bit but he's pretty quick. He stumbles a few times and I see the determination in his eyes. It makes me realize that I have to get a move on and try my best. I reach up for some high ropes on the climbing net. I grab them and start climbing. Higher and higher. Out of the corner of my eye I see some of the other tributes staring at me. I don't know why. Climbing isn't that hard. The rope starts to turn. I either stay on the same side and face the roof or go onto the other side of the net and am looking at the ground. I decide to go on the side where I'll be under the net. If I go on top it might be a bit scarier. Either way is scary but I can't bail out now. I crawl until I'm nearly upside down. I don't know what to do now. People are still staring at me. I try to ignore them and immediately think of a way to get down. I let my feet lose grip of the net above me. Suddenly I get dizzy as my legs pull my body around halfway so that I'm now the right way up. I crawl down to the bottom of the net. I'm amazed. I didn't think I could do that. Nick has gotten to the top of the boulders and is looking at me in awe. I have no idea how long he's been watching. Everyone's eyes are still fixed on me. I wish they would get back to what they are doing. Nick climbs down the boulders and approaches me.

"That was amazing," he says.

"It was only a net," I reply. "I bet there won't be any in the arena."

"Try something else then," he says putting his hand on my shoulder. If you can do the net, you can probably do the boulders, tree and cliff,"

"Cliff?" I say, stunned. "There's a cliff?"

Nick nods and loses his grip on my shoulder. He goes over to the net and I make my way to the tree. I try and find a thick piece of bark. The branches are too high up for me to get so this is my next best option. I find a piece of bark sticking out on the other side of the tree. I jump up and grip it. I put my other hand around the tree as if I'm hugging it and try and get a grip on the bottom of the tree with my feet. This is definitely harder. The piece of bark isn't as supportive as I thought. I quickly lunge for the first tree branch and only just get a grip on it. I move one of my feet and rest it on the piece of bark. I pull my body up onto the branch, using all my strength. I have a quick rest and look over at Nick. He's struggling on the rope. I regain my strength and jump up to grab the next branch. I scrape the bark of the tree with my feet as I try and get to the second branch. Once I'm on the branch, I rest for a couple of seconds and then keep going. I soon get the hang of it. Soon I'm at the top branch. I'm sitting on the branch getting some rest. After a couple of minutes I climb back down.

I walk over to the boulders and start climbing. They are massive boulders, very circular. There are no areas to grip easily. I try and grip the top of the first boulder. I pull myself up onto the top of it. Then I easily climb over three small boulders to get to the larger two. I wedge my foot in the crack in between the two and reach the top of the boulders. My arms are over the top of one of the boulders so I try and free my foot from the crack. I try and try and try but it doesn't move. My grip on the top of the boulder is loosening. I try and hold on as I try and pull my foot out one more time. It comes flying out and loosens my grip even more but I hold on. My feet are dangling over the side of the boulder and I manage to pull myself up. I sit and rest for a bit before jumping down each boulder onto the one below until I'm on firm ground again.

My last task is the cliff. Nick has just come back down it and is heading to the tree. I walk over to the side of the cliff and grip onto the rocky areas pointing out of the cliff. It's a little bit like rock climbing, but more dangerous. Soon I've gotten to the top and make my way back down to the bottom. It wasn't a very high cliff.

Nick is finished as well. He whispers in my ear, "We'll be able to climb to get away from them."

I smile. That's a good thing. Not everyone can climb. But we can. We watch the other tributes until we have to change activities.

Our next activity is picking food. We are taken into a little room full of lots of different plants, bushes and trees. There is a clearing in the middle of the room where Tia sits.

"You may begin picking what you think are edible plants," she says. "You will have ten minutes. Then you will come to me and I'll tell you whether the plants are edible. Then you will be given books to read on plants. The books state whether they're edible or not edible, and the poisons or cures they contain."

Nick and I split up and look for edible plants. I try and find as many edible plants as possible. Lil taught me about the plants every Sunday so I shouldn't be too bad at picking plants.

Soon the ten minutes are finished and Tia examines the plants. My plants are examined first. As she examines them she puts them in a pile.

"Perfect," she says. "These are all edible."

I feel much better now. I can climb to escape people and I can pick edible foods which is a really important part of survival.

I watch as Nick gets his plants examined. Instead of putting them in one pile, Tia puts them in two piles.

She points to the pile on the right, "not edible." She points to the pile on the right. "Edible. Good try though."

He's got more plants in the edible pile but it's still going to be hard for him.

We read the books for the remainder of the lesson. I try and take in as much information as possible.

A little while later we move onto our third activity. There are two bows and two quivers each with ten arrows in them. There are some targets far in front of us. I grab a bow and place the front of my first arrow on the arrow rest and use my other hand to hold together the arrow and the bow's string. I aim, pull back the arrow and shoot. My arrow has touched the target but not the centre of it. Hopeless. I look over at where Nick's arrow has landed. He's not having much luck either. We keep trying though. Eventually it gets better. Landing closer to the middle. Once we run out of arrows we go and retrieve them making sure that we don't accidentally hit each other with an arrow. Finally we start hitting the middle of the targets. Arrow after arrow. Perfect hits. Amazing.

Our fourth activity is throwing knives. We start throwing knives at the targets. We don't hit the middle of the targets, we're way off. We get slightly better, but we're not as good as we were at shooting arrows.

Our next activity is throwing spears. Once again we're not very good. Well, I'm not very good. Nick's amazing. He throws with so much force and he still gets right on target.

We go through all of the activities. Making fires, camouflaging, throwing heavy things, working out traps and striking with swords. We have a safety barrier around us so we don't get hurt.