Dear Diary,
I woke up very early today, because of the sunrise. Then we started the fire for the signal if maybe the plane would come. But guess what?! It didn’t! I was sitting by the fire when the other boys woke up. All of us were so thirsty and we were starving. We didn’t eat anything since yesterday morning. The eldest boys decided that they are going to hunt something to eat and they told us to go and see if there is enough water for all of us. That took us like an hour. When we (the younger ones) came back to the shelter we sat on the floor with sad faces and waited for the eldest to come back. When the eldest came back one of them was holding two little birds. It wasn’t much, but it was still more than the last time. I told them the bad news about the water, which was that every one of us could have just one sip of water. When we all ate up we went for a walk, but everyone in the different way. I was walking for two hours when I sat on the rock and cry myself out. I was crying for like 30 minutes. I was also thinking about how stupid we were for stealing the boat and thinking that we can explore the world. It was already dark when I came back to the shelter. Three boys were already sitting there trying to set the fire. When the other two boys came back they sat beside us and we were looking at the stars. I was happy that we didn’t fight today or weren’t listening to each other. After sometime we all fell asleep.
Sara Vukčevič, 8. razred