Hi my name is Cody and i am 16 years old. Right now I am sitting in my English 3 class, and we have an assignment to blog about ourselves. I am an average kid living in a decent sized town in a near backwoods state. I don't have very much to say about myself. I prefer to keep my life as private as possible, so it is difficult for me to write about myself when I know others are going to be able to read it. In any event,
I apologize if my blog is not as interesting as most of my classmates. I feel that I don’t like to do these things because when I was growing up I never really sat down and read stories about people and how they lived. I did not have the patience to sit and read and I really didn't have the patience to write - not even my name at the top of my papers. I was a very active child so I was always moving. Sometimes I drove my mom crazy. As I have gotten older, there have been more advances in the technology age and more and more people are used to the new ways that you can use computers, phones, and “tablets”. I, however, am not one of those people. As many may know, I have no “Facebook “, “MySpace”, or “Twitter”. I don’t text unless I am texted, and as far as talking on the phone, if you’re not in my family I wont answer. I do like to play video games with my friends online from the comfort of my house.
As I said earlier, reading is not one of my main interests, but occasionally I find a book or series of books that I actually like. I chose the book, Around The World in 80 Days, because I like stories about adventure. I know that Jules Verne also wrote 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, and I saw that movie when I was younger, and it was good. After reading just the first two chapters, I have already laughed at the book and think I made a good choice. The main character, Phileas Fogg, is just my style. I like the way he has everything in the order he wants it and the way he wants it, and he doesn't allow anyone to interfere or change his ways. I really like the way he labels his clothes with numbers so that he knows the time of year and season he is supposed to wear them. The Read for a Lifetime program makes you read, and for people like me, it gets me to read. If I find a book I like, I don't mind reading it. I will actually like it.
Some blog topics I would like to see throughout the course of this unit are paintball and video games. As I said earlier, I am not a blogger, but we will see how this goes.
