Thomas' English 1 Blog

This summer my family and I went to North Carolina for a week. We go almost every summer and it is my favorite vacation to go on. First we hiked up to the highest point of the Blue Ridge Parkway, the elevation was over 6,000 feet above sea level, the air being much more thinner and making it harder to breathe. We hiked up over ten different trails, some step, some flat, some only half a mile, some over three miles. When finally get to the end of the trail, or when you find a swimming hole or waterfall, it makes you feel accomplished. During the summer in North Carolina it isn't as hot as in Baton Rouge, but its still pretty hot while you're hiking, so when you finally get into the fifty degrees and below water it feels amazing, but it also feels like you're about to get hypothermia. I also learned how to fly fish for rainbow trout in streams that split the mountains.

The book I'm currently reading is called Alex Rider: Skeleton Key by Anthony Horowitz. So far in the book the author has introduced the antagonist, General Alexei Sarov, a former Cuban army general who now resides on hidden island near Cuba called, Cayo Esqueleto . Skeleton Key. The author also introduces the overlying main character in the Alex Rider series, Alex Rider himself. Mr. Crawley, an office manager for MI6, a top secret government agency in London, England, comes to ask Alex if he wants a front row seat at Wimbledon, the All England Tennis Club, but he doesn't mean an actual seat, he means as a ball boy. Crawley and MI6 suspect someone is trying to sabotage Wimbledon this year and they want Alex to help make sure nothing happens. So far Alex has been training and working as a ball boy for the past six weeks. He has met a lot of new friends, especially a girl named Sabina Pleasure, who he has become good friends with in the last couple weeks.

What's up fellow bloggers?! The names Thomas and y'all are gonna learn some stuff about the life of me. So, I'm 14 years old, I have a mom and dad, two sisters who are older than me, and my boy Oliver (my dog). I love to play sports, I play football, baseball, and basketball, basketball being my favorite out of the three. My favorite food is pretty much any kind of seafood and anything sweet. The best vacation I've ever been on is going to my cousins vacation house that they have in North Carolina. My family and I usually go every summer and its always awesome. This is my first year of high school, and so far it hasn't been as bad as everyone says it is, but it's only been about a week. So far I've made a lot of new friends and have had a lot of fun. My favorite subject in school is study hall, but if that doesn't count then I guess Science or History. I'm playing for the Episcopal football, baseball, and basketball teams. I'm excited and nervo

A book I read for summer reading was Alex Rider: Point Blanc. In the book teen spy Alex Rider is sent on a mission to a school in the French Alps called Point Blanc because MI6 is suspicious of kids mysteriously dying and they want Alex to investigate.  Alex finds out that Dr. Hugo Grief is making clones out of the students and killing the real ones so he can be rich and also live on inside them forever. Something that surprised me was that Alex ended up surviving a very bad skiing accident in his attempt to escape, also Dr. Hugo did end up making a clone of Alex, and when he gets back to England it is waiting for him and they end up fighting and we don't know which Alex survived. The things I liked about the book is that it was full of action and excitement. The book had some cliffhangers at the end of some chapters and there were twists that surprised me and made me wonder what would happen next. As I was reading I noticed that when your a spy its hard to trust people, you alwa