EWE KALLED | D4

I'm supposed to write a header here,
But I don't know what that is
So I'm going to end it how I end haikus.
Refrigerator.

NAME: Ewe Saw
GENDER: MALE
AGE: THIRTEEN
DISTRICT: FOUR

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Hi! My name is Ewe Saw and I'm thirteen years old and I'm from District Four! I'm writing this journal entry because it's a homework assignment from the teacher - she says that we're supposed to write a bit about ourselves, what we look like and where we live and how we came to be the way we are or something like that. It's kinda boring but pretty interesting at the same time and I hope that you like it because otherwise I guess you'll be as bored as I am when doing fractions. Fractions are annoying.

I'm short, the doctor says that I'm much shorter than average, around five feet. But he does say that boys tend to grow later than girls too, so maybe I'll grow a whole foot and then I'll be six feet and tall and then people will listen to me - dad says that when you're taller you get better jobs because people are more scared of you and being scary gets things done. That's not so much fun though, and he wouldn't really know about that because he's not very tall either - it's Mum who's the tall one. I'm also very skinny I guess, the doctor says that I'm also underweight for my age but since I'm also short for my age it evens out so I'm healthy. I never really got why we're compared to 99 other kids. What if one of them is different than another kid when they're reviewing something then how can you compare things?

I have straight black hair with bangs that end right above my eyes, which are very dark by the way. Mum says that means that I can look mysterious but I think it's more creepy than interesting (or intriguing, as my teacher suggests to write instead of interesting because I write interesting way too much, apparently). I'm not very strong - it's hard for me to lift and carry and move things so I'm mostly told to go buy things from the market. I wear clothes that Eye used to wear but they're kind of big because he's big and i'm small so it doesn't even out this time. But that's okay because even though there are holes in it and stuff it's still fun to wear it because I get to pretend to be a big kid and big kids are fun I think. However, it's hard for me to do that all the time because my left leg isn't very good. It hurts when I walk so most of the time I do some sort of a sideways limp walk and Dad says that it's kinda like a crab so it's good that I was born into a crabbing family. I don't really see how that makes sense, but he's Dad, so he's always right.

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Sometimes Mum says that I can be a bit of a handful I guess 'cause I like to talk a lot. I mean, that's not a bad thing because I guess that means that people like me except sometimes they don't because they think I'm weird. And they think that I'm weird because sometimes I don't stop talking because what I'm saying is interesting and then they start making fun of me and that isn't too fun. When that happens I don't really like talking all that much so, so I don't really raise my hand at school or talk to many people either. I don't have a lot of friends who are my age - most of them are older, like my brother's friends although Eye says that they pity me which is supposed to be a bad thing but I mean they're still friends with me so I guess that's okay. They're also younger than me, or pets.

It's okay though, I guess. I like to draw, so most of the time at school and lunch and stuff I draw because that's fun. Some people like to say that it's "my way of expressing my creativity in another form," or something stupid like that. It's fun, why complicate it with words that most people don't even use in everyday vocabulary? My teacher says that this is why I don't do so well on vocabulary tests, because I don't see the value in them but really I don't. Things can be explained very simply if people would just listen but I mean I get it sometimes I don't listen too like when Dad says to go buy a pound of worms I might accidentally buy 5 pounds or worms or a half a pound of worms and then he gets very annoyed at me.

It's not like I mean it though, I just get easily distracted 'cause there's so much to see and so much to do that there isn't enough time in the day to do everything, really. Sometimes I procrastinate and don't do anything at all but mostly I mess up because I see something else and then I get interested in it and then I go off and do that and forget about the thing that I had to do before and then when I do remember it's late or something has changed and it's harder to do it and then I get annoyed and Mum and Dad get annoyed and the teachers get annoyed and everyone gets annoyed, really. It's not really good, doesn't stress make you die quicker or something? I really should try to pay more attention because otherwise I could be standing at Mum's grave next year maybe because I annoy her so much. That would be sad.

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Mum and Dad built our house on a boat 'cause they work pretty much all the time. Not that I mind of course, because I think we have the best house ever. Not only does the scenery change almost every night but we get to eat the freshest crabs when the season's got more of them than even the Capitol wants - and trust me, they want a lot of crab. I guess it's because no one else dares to go where we do, out into the open, fishing at dark, fishing at light because they have lives outside of crabbing. But they do too - when they're not trapping crabs they're diving for pearls. They're shipped to District 1 and once Mum got back a very nice black pearl necklace as thanks (I think it was illegal for her to get that because pretty much all black pearls are sent directly to the Capitol but it's okay because nobody is hurting from it).

But sometimes the boat can get pretty woozy, so that's why Eye and Dad built a treehouse for Eye and me to stay in. It's right near the coast, built ontop of some sturdy palm trees so that we don't throw up every time we finish our homework 'cause that wouldn't be very good. It's like a sleepover when we go there - Eye doesn't tell me when to go to sleep or anything like that. Sometimes he's out for a bit so I like jumping around on the bed or drawing on the scraps of paper I find with my charcoal (speaking of which, my charcoal collection's dwindling by the second. Maybe Eye can get some? I think he knows people who know people who know people who know how to get charcoal).

Really though, Eye is the best. He's super strong and super confident and super smart and really just super 'cause he always is willing to protect his family and his friends and really he's just a badass. I know that he beats people up sometimes and Mum says that beating people up is bad and that you should just show them that you're better at them by beating them at bets or games or something, but Eye can shut them up very fastly. Sometimes people aren't that nice to me 'cause my name apparently means sheep or something, but he can get them to be quiet really fast. Some day, I wanna be like my big bro, super cool and always knowing what the best thing to do is. I could protect people and be awesome and that's pretty awesome I think do you think it is? I think it is.

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