Ainsworth, Nebraska, USA

Today, I interviewed Darnell Hackworth. He is a shy, soft-spoken man who runs a retirement farm for dogs who fought in the zombie pandemic. Before the pandemic, there was one in every state but since then his is the only one left. These dogs were first used to sniff the people who were infected. Darnell never felt that they got enough credit. He said it was a great program but it came down to the dog training. Pups began getting trained by sitting across from G's, and that is how they got the instinct to kill. As they grew older, the dogs would go through more advanced training, until they were ready to go on missions. The main mission for them was scouting, either Sweep and Clear (SC) or Long Rang Patrol (LRP). These tactics proved to be very effective, and the dogs, without a doubt, played a major role in the zombie pandemic.

Aboard the Mauro Altieri, Three Thousand Feet Above Vaalajarvi, Finland

Today, I interviewed General D'Ambrosia in the Combat Information Center. The interview with him was short, yet very interesting. He said that he was scared to go to war against the two million zombies. I had no idea that the number of zombies was that large, heck I would be scared too if I was in the General's shoes. The book of war, he stated, was useless, and that there had to be a new one written from scratch just because of the zombies. He later told me the differences between the human army and the zombies. The human army had to be "bred, fed, and led." Whereas the zombies didn't need any of this, making them extremely lethal and dangerous. You could not starve them to death or surround them, the only way to kill them was to destroy its brain. This must have caused great stress and chaos for the army. I am sure glad I was not one of the generals during the zombie pandemic.

Sydney, Australia

Today, I interviewed a man named Terry Knox. He was the first and only Australian commander of the International Space Station. During the zombie pandemic, he was on a space station, the ISS. His focus was surviving, while in space, with little materials. There was lots of downtime in outer space, so they watched the pandemic happen right in front of their eyes with the help of enhanced optics. They saw lots of battles, the evacuation of Japan, many fires, and even discovered zombie holes, which were the pits that the undead dig when they are going after burrowing animals. This must have hurt Terry and his crew to helplessly watch these people die. He had the option to return to Earth, but they felt it was safer in Earth. Was that the right choice by him? They stayed in outer space for over three years. This interview was very interesting, and I was sad to find out that Terry Knox died three days following the interview I had with him.

The Demilitarized Zone: South Korea

My third and final interview this week was with Hyungchol Choi. He was the deputy director of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency. He claimed North Korea was the most prepared for the infestation because they were surrounded by bodies of water and the Demilitarized Zone, which is the most heavily fortified border in the world. They also had a highly militarized population. He explained that South Korea was the exact opposite of North Korea. They were a open society where trade played a major role. I would have felt much safer living in North Korea during this time. Once Zombie outbreaks occured, North Korea severed all diplomatic realtions. Also South Korea's spies in the North began vanishing. This was a mystery to Choi. He later credits the North for his survival.

Province of Bohemia, The European Union

I also had a very interesting interview with David Allen Forbes. He is an author of the book called Castles of the Zombie War: The Continent. He began talking about all of the castles that spread across the world that were used as protection during the zombie pandemic. The high walls kept people safe from the zombies, however there were many internal dangers. For example, if a person has a case of pneumonia, it could spread throughout the castle and wipe out the population of the castle. I would hate to live in closed quarters with illnesses going around. Also, scarcity of food inside the castle led to raiding the food of the near countryside. He alter talks about the castle where he stayed, Windsor. It was a state-of-the-art castle that had everything from its own water well to large storage space for food. They also managed to get oil inside the castle and have amazing security that kept the civilians inside safe. Now this is a castle that i wouldn't mind living at during the zombie pandemic.

Parnell Air National Guard Base, Tennessee

Today, I had a long interview with Colonel Christina Eliopolis, who was a fighter pilot. She flew a Raptor plane, which she claims was "the best air superiority platform ever built." However, it was banned because it was "strategically invalid." She later took me through the event of her plane crashing on the way to Florida, leaving her abandoned in the middle of Louisiana all alone. While alone, she came in contact with a skywatcher by radio who goes by the name "Mets." How did "Mets" come in contact with Christina? Does "Mets" work for the government? She mentors and guides Christina to safety through the zombie infested areas. Christina had to fend off many zombies with her handgun. She got saved by a civilian chopper just in time to evade the zombies.

Sand Lakes Provincial Wilderness Park, Manitoba, Canada

I also interviewed a women named Jesika Hendricks. Her family decided to move farther north to stay away from the zombies. They decided to do this because zombies freeze solid in cold weather. I would have also chosen to go north in order evade the zombies. The family took all their belongings and set of on their journey. Along the way, they encountered many hitchhikers wanting to go farther north. Once they arrived at the camp, they were having a great time with other campers and were enjoying campfires and feasts together. But supplies grew scarce as the winter grew colder. People started fighting including Jesika's parents. There were also no more camp fires. She told me that eleven million people died that winter in North America. That number is ridiculous! The living dead came in the spring, and the campers teamed up killing them. That must have been one scary, cold winter for the Hendricks family and all the other campers.

Robben Island, Cape Town Province, United States of Southern Africa

Today I interviewed Xolelwa Azania, who was a very interesting person. He started out talking about a man named Paul Redeker, who was describes as being dispassionate. Redeker was the man who came up with the plan called "Plan Orange." That was the name of a plan which included a survival strategy for the African people. This plan made him the most hated man in Africa. The main objective of the plan was to sacrifice some of their own people during the zombie crisis in order for most of its people to remain safe. His reason for this was because he thought there was no way to save all of the people, so you might as well sacrifice some to the zombies. Still this sounds really cruel and selfish to sacrifice some of your own people just so the others can survive. He went into hiding and while there, he revised his plan. The government later found him and chose to use his plan. Opinions vary when it comes to what they think Redeker was like as a person, some even agree that it was him who helped save the world from the zombies. I still do not know what to think.

Bridgetown, Barbados, West Indies Federation

Today i interviewed a man named T. Sean Collins. He doesn't really know what the title of his job is so he just calls himself a mercenary. His job was to be a body guard for celebrities during the Zombie crisis. The celebrities lived in an expensive house that had everything from high walls to motion sensors. It also had web cams, where the celebrities could remain in the spotlight and communicate with their fans. However, the web cams are what caused the riot to happen because everyone knew where the celebrity safe house was located. Why couldn't the celebrities for just once live in secrecy? When Collins saw the civilians raiding the house, he didn't fire his gun because they were not the "living dead." It was chaos once the civilians entered the house, and gunshots were being fired, blood was everywhere, and a fire was burning the house down. T. Sean Collins managed to sneak out during this riot and paddle out to sea looking for a ride to the New York Harbor.

The Amazon Rain Forest, Brazil

My next interview came with an unusual arrival of being blindfolded in order to not reveal my hosts' location. I interviewed a man named Fernando Oliveira, who considered himself a doctor. He was getting paid a lot of money from not doing normal doctor procedures but doing organ transplants. These organs came off the black market most likely from China. There wasn't time to test these organs, and they could have very well been life-threatening. This is immoral. How could Fernando do such a thing? Why didn't he have the organs checked to make sure they were healthy. All he wanted was money, which is what he got a lot of. Fernando killed the man who was getting a heart transplant with his gun after the patient attacked the doctors. He somehow managed not to go to jail for this crime. Fernando was a scandalous man who was in the organ transplant business just for the money. How cruel.

Lhasa, The People's Republic of Tibet

I also interviewed Nury Televaldi. He lived in Lhasa, one of the world's most populous cities. He was a smuggler who made great money doing this, even though it was wicked and wrong. He transported people out of the country that wanted to get away from the outbreak. He also transported infected ones. He did this either through ground transportation or air. What was he thinking doing this scandalous act, and how did he never catch the infection? I know he was in it for the money, but would money matter if he would have died from this infection? Even though measures were taken to prevent smuggling, Nury also knew ways of getting around it. He could technically be responsible for transporting the infection globally. I asked many questions to him throughout the interview, and I had gotten lots of information from Nury.

Greater Chongqing, The United Federation of China

My first interview of a survivor was with Kwang Jingshu. It took place in China and he told me a lot of information. Kwang was a medical doctor, and he helped many patients. He started the interview by saying he had to attend an emergency, where he found seven villagers barely conscious. The first patient he examined had a bite mark on it's arm from something other than an animal. I concluded it must have been from the "zombies." The village was chaotic and one young child he was helping couldn't move and Jingshu was scared. Now he had been a highly trained doctor for most of his life and after tending to the young boy, Jingshu had told me he had been truly scared for the first time on the job. Now that makes sense with the crisis going on in the midst of him helping the villagers. After helping the villagers, he contacted Doctor Gu Wen Kuei, who is an expert in infectious diseases. He knew something was wrong and had to help immediately. The questions in my head after the interview included where did these zombies come from, and how did they cause such a crisis in China and later the world?