February 21, 1936

I heard somethin movin around right before I woke up from my nap. I was ready to take off but whatever was movin jumped on me and I was as trapped as a roach under a dishrag! I pulled my knife out to stab the person if I needed to but then I heard a voice talkin to me that said, "If you ain't a kid called Bud from the Home I'm really sorry about jumping on you like this!" Whew, it was just Bugs! We decided to be on the lam together and be brothers forever! Only after we did our spit shake of course.

We found a place called Hooperville, just outside of Flint where we waited to catch a ride on a train. We were told we were actually in Hooverville and that if we were hungry and tired, we were in the right place. It was a place with cardboard houses and a fire. We fit right in and even helped cleanup after dinner since we were on kitchen police. That was when I met Deza Malone. After she kissed me real quick, my first ever kiss, she sang me a "pretty" song called Shenandoah. I think Bugs thought somethin was weird about me cuz he said I looked strange. That woman was right about my suitcase, she didn't let nothin happen to it while I did KP but I still checked everything out anyway.

We awoke to the sound of a man screamin tellin us the train was tryin to leave without us! We were runnin for the train but a flyer came out of my suitcase. Bugs went on without me like i told him to. The cops were there tryin to stop people from gettin on the train but they kinda gave up when they figured they didn't stand a chance against us. I ran to catch up to Bugs and threw my suitcase on the train but a flyer flew out again and i had to catch it. I couldn't make it on the train so Bugs threw my suitcase out for me. I headed back to Hooverville but the police were bustin the place up. I was hopin I would have time to make it to the mission for breakfast.