Super Eruption.

8/2/2029. Day Two.

[Alright I'm writing this right after she has addressed us all. It's about nine at night and in about 30 minutes my mom will call "lights out." This will have to be a shorter entry.]

That morning, I woke up and... went back to sleep (alright tell me that you don't try to go back to sleep when you wake up). After, what, 30 minutes to an hour my dad shook me awake. I decided to wake up because if I didn't I might miss breakfest. Heck, I was hungry enough to go for a snack right now. [No. Scratch that -- then, not now. Dang it, this stupid pencil has lost its easer. Guess I'll have to write it down here then because I don't want to ruin this whole diary.]
          Oh, and if you're wondering, yes I would only be woken up by my family once (or twice if you count a few times or if you count our resident baby).
         Anyway, we had breakfast at 7:15 and it was actually not rations (surprisingly). It was more like food at a hotel though not nearly as good.
     As you might expect, I was waiting in fear for list of jobs to not be read from. I almost thought that they would pass when the same woman from last night climbed onto the podium. She read off from the list of chores. My heart sank when she assigned me and about fourteen other boys to clean - up duty of this room. I wished that I had been assigned me to plumbing work where I could help reroute the plumbing so that we could have a better water supply. At least it was better than the cleaning of the showers or cleaning the bathrooms. She also announced that we would have to stay here the whole week since the eruption was going to go on that long.

And so I cleaned and the others cleaned the entire room which took a few hours to do. After cleaning we were supposed to help do another job. We all agreed to stay away from the bathrooms and showers for a few hours lest we be pulled into doing their work. So we all went our seperate ways, me to the plumbing, the others to... whereever.
     I didn't get to the plumbing for at least 30 minutes because I was roped into doing the laundry. 

[I think that I forgot to tell you this but, before we started our chores we had to dump yesterday's clothes in the laundry. If we didn't have any other clothes then we had to get new, navy blue ones if you were a boy and grey ones if you were a girl.]

For some reason, the people at the laundry had gotten a 2 - hour rest period while the rest of us were cleaning. They just lazed around, switched the laundry from washer to dryer and now they had to scramble to fold all 2,000 pieces of clothing. [If you're wondering, yes, there are other rooms for the laundry and this one just happens to be the smallest.] So they roped me in to helping them.

After I was done helping them, I quickly proceeded to the plumbing and worked for about thirty minutes on the easy work (they wouldn't let a 12 - year - old do more than that). Then, I with most of the other workers, went to lunch.
      At lunch I reqjoined my family and had just had finished my lunch when I heard the announcement: Yellowstone was probably going to keep erupting for a long time. And by that I mean that it is going to keep erupting until at least next month.
      Uggh.
       I hate my life.
       Anyway, all of the kids in my age group to fifteen had to go to go down to a different auditorium for class since that was the plan.
      So, of course, school was chaos. It took the teachers 5 minutes to stop us from fighting amongst ourselves, talking, and occassionally yelling curses at the teachers. 

[If you're wondering, none of us got punished because that would be exactly what we woud have wanted so they just let them stay in school because that was punishment enough.]

In school, we learned about Yellowstone volcano and a bunch of other volcanoes and were made to write a report on it. I think that I'll put mine in the front of this when it's fully edited. After that we were assigned to the gym which was bassically an indoor pool and park for physical activity. All of the people who went into the pool had to take a swim - test so you can imagine that I took it and swam after they had given me a swimsuit that was my own now.

After that things went much like yesterday except there was an announcement that the president would be speaking on our TVs at nine o'clock sharp. Oh, and me and twenty others had to clean up.

At nine, the president announced that we would have to stay down here for the rest of the year.

                                                           

                                                       

                                                        *** Not edited for realism. ***