I duck back into the room and emerge a minute later in flip- flops with a towel over my shoulder and a Ziploc full of shower tools just as she’s approaching my new abode. There’s a girl headed in my direction, about a hundred feet down the trail with a towel and a shower caddy. It takes five minutes, but eventually we have liftoff. I drag the desk chair out the door and set up camp outside for a bit. It’s getting dark, but the trail along the cabins is lit up every five feet or so. I close the notebook and stick my head outside.

Looks like I’ll have to leave the cabin in search of human interaction. I flip open the journal Terry gave me and click on a pen. “Wow, roughing it.” I chuck my bag near the yoga mat, take a seat at the desk, and exhale. A green yoga mat is unfurled across the floor along the left wall. A small old-fashioned lamp with an on/off beaded string sits on the desk. A single bunk is on the right wall with a desk underneath it where a bottom bunk would be. There’s a window on the far wall allowing a flood of gray decaying light to fall across the wooden floor. I throw that open to get to the plain brown one behind it, and use my key to get inside.Ĭabin ten is one room. She collaborated with fellow YouTuber Jack Howard on a Paper Towns movie review video.The words cabin ten are carved into the wood beside the flimsy screen door of my assigned house. Her boyfriend was also featured on her channel she announced their breakup with a video in September 2015. She has a sister, Olivia, and a brother, Paul, both of whom have appeared in her videos. She is from Montville, New Jersey, and graduated with a degree in film and television from Boston University. Her debut novel Again, but Better became a New York Times Best Seller. She was selected by Ford to be a Fiesta Movement Agent where Ford covers gas, insurance, and other fees for her to drive around in a 2014 Ford Fiesta. She then started her second and more popular channel polandbananasBOOKS to post comedic book reviews and discussions. She started publishing comedic sketches and video blogs to her channel polandbananas20 in 2010. Between the two channels, she has amassed over 400,000 subscribers. Storyteller and book enthusiast known for her two YouTube channels polandbananas20 and polandbananasBOOKS.

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