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District 10

Parker Yim 7

Kyla Every 5

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                                     Training Day 3 Update

All Rolled into Run - Track and Field (OS)

I went back to the track again today. I had the trainer run through all of the biomes while I ran, just like I did on the first day of training. It’s an odd experience to run while they change. It felt good to run again.

Losing Myself to the Fight - Melee Weapons (OS)

Another repeat, I went to the melee weapons station. I practiced with a different weapon than I had, it was a larger two handed sword. I’m not as used to two handers as I am to single handers. Either way it was good practice to murder all of those holos... and a lot of fun too.

Just In Case - Poisons and Antidotes (OS)

I went to the poisons and antidotes station for the first time. It was really interesting to learn how to make a few different mixtures as well as what plants are good and bad. I’m glad I went.

Testing My Limits - Swimming Pool (OS)

Another first time station was the swimming pool. I feel better after having the trainer give my some tips and advice on how to swim better. In addition I got to practice swimming in heavy waves, freezing water, and super hot water. Not the most fun but I feel better prepared.

Up Up Up I Go - Climbing Wall (OS)

The climbing wall was a new station for me as well. The trainer showed me the best ways to climb up a regular rock wall, a mountain, a canyon, and a glacier. Plus he showed me how to gather useful resources whilst doing it. I feel a lot better prepared for any climbing I may have to do in the arena.

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Up, Up, Up I Go | OS | Climbing Wall | Training Day 3

I decided to come back to go to one final station, the climbing wall. It was another one of those skills that I had a basic grasp of but knew I should probably learn more to be prepared. So, much like a number of other stations today, I walked up to the trainer and asked them to teach me. The trainer set me up in the harness and hooked me up to the wall. He showed me basic climbing skills and had me practice going up the wall once or twice before he decided that I was ready to be shown how to climb a terrain. 

The trainer set the wall to be a moutainous cliff and told me to just start climbing. While I climbed, he gave me tips on how to get a better grip, find better footing, and even how to gather some resources that a mountain might hold. Following the mountain, the trainer set the wall to canyon and then glacial, following the same routine as before (giving me tips as I went up). 

Finally after quite a number of goes up the wall, and admittedly a few stumbles, I was unhooked from the wall and harness. I felt like I was better prepared to handle any climbing I might have to do in the arena. I thanked the trainer, glad that I had decided to come to this station, and walked out of the training center for the last time until my private training. 

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Testing my Limits | OS | Swimming Pool | Training Day 3

I decided to head to the pool to practice my swimming. I had never done much swimming, wasn’t too much need for it in 10. I went up the trainer and asked them to run through the proper way to swim, float, etc. which they did gladly. Probably because I hadn’t insulted them like the melee weapons trainer. Again oops. It’s really a good thing I decided to come over to the swimming station beause the techniques and advice the trainer gave me actually helped quite a lot. I was swimming quite a bit better than I had been before. 

After applying the trainers techniques and swimming a few laps I decided to test my abilities in the extremes. The trainer turned on the wave settings on the pool, starting off small and gradually increasing in size and strength, so that I could practice. It was a rather grueling task I had set for myself and I got pulled under more than once, but it was good to know that I could get myself back up to the surface. 

I was just about to get out of the pool when the trainer suggested that I stay in and swim about in different, more extreme, temperatures. That way I would know what it felt like and be more prepared if I came across it. I took their suggestion and stayed in while they changed the temperature. He started it off on freezing, which was horrible, and left it that way for awhile forcing me to swim around and just stay in their. Just before things got too bad, they changed it back to normal, gradually, so as to not shock my body. I floated in the water for awhile, giving my body the time it needed, and then the trainer turned the temperature up to really fucking hot. It felt just as horrendous as the freezing water had, though in a completely different way. The freezing water had felt like pins and needles before going numb while the hot water simply made me feel like my skin was melting. Needless to say, it was rather unpleasant. The trainer followed the same routine as before, gradually turning the temperature to its average state while I stayed in it and let my body return to normal. 

After what felt like forever, I was allowed to get out of the pool and leave the station. From there I headed out of the training room for awhile... my body needed a break while it could still get one.

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Just In Case | OS | Poisons and Antidotes | Training Day 3

I walked up to the poisons and antidotes booth for the first time. I figured I should probably have a basic knowledge of what goes into poisons, as well as how to make some antidotes. Plus it couldn’t hurt to learn about helpful and hurtful plants. I moved to the trainer and asked them to teach me everything they could. They immediately develed into an explination and instructions on how to make a few different concotions including a non-lethal poison, an antidote for a tracker jacker sting, anti nausea potion, and a tempory paralytic; all the while I followed along, making the different mixtures with her.

After finish up that lesson, she moved us over to a line of different plants and began to teach me about them. She showed me a number of different plants that could be helpful to me as well as a some that would be dangerous. All in all, it was very interesting. I filed everything she taught me away in my head just in case I would need it, as I walked to my next station. 

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Losing Myself to the Fight | OS| Melee Weapons | Training Day 3

I walked up to the melee weapons station, thankful that there were no other tributes there. I nodded at the trainer as I walked up to the weapons table. They just scowled at me...okay so perhaps I should have been a bit nicer last time I was here. Too late to change that now. I picked up a large sword, a different weapon than I had used either of the other times I had been here. Walking up to the podium, which held the hologram control system, I set it to a high difficulty level and entered the training area.

I raised the two handed sword up and positioned myself so I was ready to attack. I saw movement out of the corner of eye and turned, using my agility, to dodge the strike before swiftly burying my blade into the holo. More holograms soon followed the first and I quickly lost myself to the fight. I dodged and twisted to avoid each assault, all the while taking out every holo before they could get me. 

In what felt like seconds my battle was over. I smiled to myself as I watched the last holo disintegrate around my sword. I pulled back, standing tall, and walked back to the weapons table, replacing the blade I had used. Immediately after I turned and walked back to the center of the training center to decide where to do next.

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All Rolled into Run | OS | Track and Field | Training Day 3

I approached the trainer at the track and field station, in much the same manner that I had the first day. I’m really only feeling slightly less grumpy today than I had been that first day. Dealing with all of the tributes yesterday had just made me want to be alone, despite the fact that some of the interactions hadn’t been entirely bad... 

“Could we do the same things as the other day? Go through of a bunch of the biomes as I run, I mean,” I tried to keep my voice polite.

The trainer looked at me for a few seconds before nodding their head and motioning me towards the track. I thanked them and took my place. Counting down from ten, I took and deep breathe and got ready. When I reached one, I began to run. The biomes began changing every 6 or 7 minutes. They ran through snow, forest, beach, wetlands, fields, desert, mountain, rainforest, and finally settled on the regular track a few minutes before I reached the end. It had felt good to run, to strech my legs. “It was an interesting experience having all of those different biomes all rolled into one run.” I thought to myself as I thanked the trainer and moved on to my next station. 

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                                   Training Day 2 - Update

Quite a Difference - Hand to Hand (w/ Parker Yim) 

I went to the hand to hand station and ended up sparring with Parker Yim. He was not exactly the most difficult opponent. Still it was nice to spar with someone and he wasn’t horrible to speak to.

Survival Skills (w/ Ignacius Kauri) 

I swear that some of these trainers like to talk just to hear the sound of their own voice. After I got her to go away though, it wasn’t bad though. Ignacius seemed decent enough and he didn’t pry too much like some of the others have.

Diced - Melee Weapons (Apricot Thompson) 

I think that Apricot might acutally be certifiable. Despite that, or perhaps because of that, she was a great sparring partner. I am kind of hoping that I don’t meet her in the arena because she might just give me a run for my money. I actually like her just a little.

Flips n Shit - Gymnastics (w/ Ratsis Montgomery)

 I really am not a fan of Rat, he comes off like judgmental dick. As much as that sucked, it was nice to get to practice some of my more acrobatic skills again. 

I think that I managed to not piss anyone off too much today. Even though some of the tributes seemed decent enough, I am really getting tired of dealing people. I’m pretty sure that have spoken and interacted with people more in the past few days than I have in the entirety of the past five years.