Blog #2

In fact, I have felt a connection to nature.  Two years ago, my family and I went on a trip to Colorado.  It was a really cool experience.  The main point that I connected to nature was while I was biking down Pike's Peak.  We saw a brochure to be able to actually bike down Pike's Peak.  My family and I enjoy the outdoors and were definitely up for a fun trip to go on.  I decided not to go whitewater rafting since I hate water.  We drove up to the top of the mountain and unloaded all of the bikes. We then proceeded to start biking down it.  There were so many parts of it where you could just fall off and die.  That is why I felt my connection.  I was so high up, and in a really cool environment, that I didn't really care.  I felt like it didn't matter, and that I was actually connected to nature.     

Blog #1 of 2nd Semester

Both of these authors are very good and I enjoy reading their stories.  However, I think I like Edgar Allen Poe better, because he uses less description.  Sometimes, description just gets too overwhelming.  I found myself skipping pages just to get to the moral of the story.  I really did not care about the depth that Hawthorne went into.  I would've rather had him get straight to the point.  Edgar Allen Poe's stories are also more interesting.  They are a lot more suspenseful, and even scarier.  In my opinion, Poe is a much better author.