Journal Entry #2

Right at the beginning of this section, Alaska, Miles, the Colonel and Takumi were sent to Jury (12 elected students plus The Eagle who decided the punishment for no expellable offences) for being caught smoking on school property, or at least Alaska and the Colonel were. The punishment for Alaska and the Colonel ended up with 10 hours of work in the kitchen cleaning dishes, and nothing but a warning for Miles and Takumi. I think this punishment shows a kind of softer side to The Eagle because he didn’t interfere in the punishment given to four friends, like he could have being the judge. He allowed the students to pick a fair punishment without allowing his personal dislike or prejudice effect his decisions.

Miles was convinced by Alaska to stay during Thanksgiving with her on campus while everyone else when home. Miles phoned his mom asking permission to stay over break and she agreed, but with some reluctance. Miles reconsidered his decision, but when he called his mom he didn’t quite get the answer he expected. They had quickly booked a trip when they heard Miles wasn’t going to be home for the holiday. When Miles heard this, he was quite disheartened, and I relate to that feeling. I’ve often been in the same situation as Miles, regretting a decision and trying to reverse it without any luck. I think that’s one the of the worst feelings, its as if you let yourself down by making a wrong decision and having no way to fix it.

As time went on, someone pranked Alaska when it was raining by diverting water from a drainpipe into her room and therefore flooding her floor and ruining her books. Alaska, being the queen of pranks had been planning to get the weekday Warriors back for doing this. Alaska arranged a prank for the weekend coming up with the Colonel, Miles, Takumi, Lara and herself were to get an excuse to be away from the campus for the weekend, but in reality they were all going to be at the barn near The Eagle’s house. They were going to release two pranks, knowing The Eagle wasn’t going to expect that. As I read through the pre-prank, I’m wondering how much worse the actual prank will be, I’m questioning if Alaska’s idea for two pranks was really a good call for the group of friends to make. I’m excited to see what happens next.

~Amanda