Catherin

Jan.16, 2009

Dear Diary,

My 15Th birthday is coming up. I’m not so sure I wish it to come. My father tries too have me find someone special. Some who will protect me and love me forever. My mother (being as she is) wants me to learn the ways of being a women. Which I find stupid. I already know how to cook,clean, and do everything that any female in the tribe can do.

What I do not understand is why I can’t just be me and not be like every one else. Now as I write I sit under a tree by the lake side remembering all my fun times I had there.

When my father took me and my twin brother, Acinn, down to the lake to go fishing we had only been 5 at the time but I remember it also clear.Some days I wish I could go back to those days.

Catherin

Jan.18, 2009

Dear Diary,

Today is my birthday. When I got up this morning I could smell sweet pancakes being made. I could hear my family getting ready for me and Acinn to come down stairs.

I always liked to go out at in the morning to go for a morning jog. But as it seems this morning I would not being going out for my morning jog. I walked down stares with Acinn beside me. “Catherin happy birthday.” He said to me that morning.

I had try to say it back but we had already got to the bottom of the stairs and got hugs and kisses from your mother and father, grandmother and grandfather. After your morning party, I left to go down to the lake. When I got there the sun had already started to set. The moon was starting to rise high and higher in the night sky.

Then I saw the most amazing thing out on the lake. It was the lakes spirit.She told me that I could have two wishes. I knew what I wanted I wanted my old life were I was treated not like the girl I am but as me. I made my wish and she said when I’m ready to make my second wish just to go back to the lake when the moon is high.

Catherin

P.S: I love having this; my wish is going to come true. ^_\\

Jan.19, 2009

Dear Diary,

I woke up this morning this morning thinking I had dreamed it all up.But when I went down stairs to go for a jog my father came up and asked me if I wanted to go fishing. I was surprised. XD But yet at the same time scared.

I hadn’t fished in a while. So I had told him that I would pass. That I was going to go sit under a tree some were. I didn’t want to tell him about last night I hadn’t even told Acinn. Who I didn’t seem to see any were. I thought that maybe he had left earlier this morning to go read. But his book was beside his bed.

When I left, some of the guys in my tribe waved at me and asked if I wanted to wrestle. Which kind of scared me but yet somewhat exited. I told them maybe some other time, right then I wanted to go to my tree.and

Someone once told me that “Someday everything will all make perfect sense.So laugh at the confusion, smile through the tears, and keep reminding yourself that everything happens for a reason.” Well I see what they meant now. Everything does make perfect sense. And I like it. //_^

Catherin

Jan.21, 2009

Dear Diary,

I am back to my studies of your langue. I have learned how to say fireit is tatá.Abámorubixaba. Sy ybytu. My py'a is the only thing that can guide me onmy journey.

The healer in your tribe wants to teach me how to use herbs to help when someone gets hurt. He says that I need

ka'api kuri yba ybotyra soba. Something doesn’t feel right I haven’t seen Acinn in two days now. I hope he’s okay. I asked my father if he has seen him and he said I haveno brother. That’s what made me wonder if that wish I had made was a good on or not.

Catherin

   Jan.24, 2009

Dear Diary,

I got up and ran down the stair this morning so I could get to the lake before sun set.

I had gone to the river side and had sat there for several min. tell the moon came up rising higher and higher. And just as the night of my birthdays, I saw her; I had been doing some research on her. Her name is Angeni meaning spirit angel. She is known of her looks and granting wishes to the young people of my tribe. She does that to teach them a lesson. What lesson could I learn? All I wanted to do was be treated not as the chefs’ daughter but as me.

She looked to me then to the water. I moved to the water’s edge not stepping in but close enough that I could feel the chill of the winter water. She asked me what my second and final wish was and this time I was very precise at what I said. “I wish that Acinn was back and that everything that happened hadn’t happened, that everything that I had wished for did not happen.” That was my wish I ran as fast as I could back to my home just as the sun was starting to come up. I saw Acinn sitting outside waiting for me. I was so happy that he was back, that I didn’t know that I was crying. I was just too happy I told him “Happy Birthday Acinn”.

Catherin