Blogging experience

I have to admit, when Molly first said we would be keeping a blog I wasn't to happy about it. I mean come on what will we possibly do with this? It turns out though, that the blog idea wasn't so bad after all. It kept me writing throughout the whole semester, and some of the posts were actually fun to write. Overall the blogs were a good addition to a usually boring english class. I wont be keeping the blog for my own use, but for school it was great. So Molly if your gonna be teaching this class again i would say use the blogs, really helped out in keeping me inline.

Stories!!!

Alright i read the school, and good god that was weird lol. Best way to describe it is just pessimism personified on paper, with a very creepy and small light at the end of the tunnel. I will say that the school was nothing compared to Mollies masterpiece, always knew you were a little off. But i digress, on to my story...

It was a dark, and very cold night in Anaktuvuk pass Alaska. Father had just left to get more firewood and medicine for Mother, she had come down with a very nasty flu of sorts and wasn't doing so well. I was nearly asleep when i heard a cry from outside the village. I ran outside to see what was happening only to find the village on fire with some strange men riding in on horse back. I wanted to go find Father with ever fiber in my being but i knew he would be upset if i left Mother by herself, so i stayed back and hid until i saw Father again. I was overjoyed when i saw him still alive and running towards us, but then, just when he was almost to the tent, a mans sword effortlessly robbed him of his head. I couldn't help it, i screamed with all my might over Fathers death, and in the midst of all that anger i lost myself. I took up a spear and rammed it straight through the mans rib cage who had killed my Father. Only to have the next second turn black from a pain on the back of my head. I was struck with some type of club and was bleeding out. I heard the man's laughter as i laid their slowly slipping into cold abyss. I am not sure why but i thought of Alaska and its great arctic weather and storms, and seemed to realise at that moment that i was becoming one with the land. The cold darkness of night that i had lived with my whole life was becoming me, and as my eye's turned white and the last flickering of the flames reached my eyes. I was whole, for that moment, peace was with me forever. Also it helped that i knew about karma and that these guys would get paid back for what they did to my village and all. :)

Books to read and such...

To start off i really only read fictional books, its just the kind that i have always enjoyed reading about. Not to sound too nerdy but science fiction is kinda up there on the list of books i read. Most recently i was told about a collection of books by John Scalzi, one of which is called Old Mans War. Its about the military of earth in the far away future, i hope. The government now only takes the retired due to them having the longest life experience and knowledge about the world around them, they then give them new bodies which are of course better faster and stronger then human ones. The book is written in first person by a man just reaching his enlisting age of 75. Overall the book is very well written and has a great story, i would highly recommend it to anyone who likes military or sci-fy type books. Probably my favorite author i have read so far though is Richard A. Knaak, so look him up to.