it kind of surprises me...

Made me happy immidiently. I was too happy to be surprised.

Haha, to be honest, I was suprised so many boys liked it.
But only because it involved romance and the main character was a girl, and it was in first person.

eh, i think girls like it because of the main character and boys like it because of the blood, gore, etc.
oh yah, it is VERY, VERY well written, especially compared to twilight... (stupid twitards)

I thought the romance was a nice touch, but I didn't really pay a whole lot of attention to it. The main thing I noticed is that Peeta acted the same way towards Katniss before the Games as I feel about a girl at school.

Then again, it could be nothing like that. I don't know. I just thought the survival stuff was cool. And as a Boy Scout I liked thinking about how I would've done things differently.

Scouting is really great. We go on campouts a LOT and you kind of get used to having to trust your abilities to pitch your tent in the dark (we always get to the campsites after dark) and keeping your stuff organized in the shared tent. I actually had to use the heimlich maneuver on a kid at school when he choked on a chip but I learned how to do it at a Scouts meeting.

Cub Scouts needed parents. In Boy Scouts parents are barely involved, and the individual scouts' parents don't actually have to do anything unless they volunteer to. Only Scoutmaster parents come on the trips, and a lot of the stuff is just run by the older scouts. My sister's in Girl Scouts and parents need to have a certain amount of participation, but they almost never go on camping trips (or at least my sister's troop doesn't) and I don't think the parents have to tag along. Really, once you're out of elementary school scouting is pretty independent. I became friends with some of my closest friends there.