Winter is the best!

I don't know how Cheunga could have said so many bad things about winter. She disappointed me. She said on her post:

          I dislike any characteristic of winter. On a typical winter day the sky is abnormally gray, with pale clouds hovering- preventing light from the sun. It is like the light from a lamp is turned to the lowest possible level and a morose feeling comes to me. The volatile whether is annoying and picks the worse time for a storm. Whenever I am wearing a puffy jacket, the clouds agreeably make way for the sun to shine on my heated jacket. When I strip off my jacket, the clouds close up and send the winds to further the discomfort....There is no point wearing anything nice because the rain would ruin it anyways

Cheunga, um, there is something called an umbrella so you can cover your nice clothes and not get it wet. Anyways, Winter is the best time of the year. I totally disagree with you with everything you said, except the sweater part which was a little weird. Haha. Well, I think that when it is cold, it is better because it is not annoying. Comparing winter to summer, summer is horrible; you always feel hot and you sweat and it's all gross and it is annoying being so hot. When it's cold, you may feel something else but never annoyed! Rain is so cool. I don't understand why you don't like it. Rain makes my day so much better. I love the smell of wet soil. I know that sone people like it too, but the reason why I love that smell is because it reminds me of home. Days that look gray do seem sad, but it seems so peaceful and quiet when the sky is gray.
I just think that being cold is better than being hot. Because when you are cold, you can just sit next to the heater, put on 20 sweaters, drink a cup of hot chocolate and everything feels nice. On the other hand, when you are hot, if you sit next to a fan, or the AC, it takes a while to get that annoying feeling out of you. It's all bad.
Nothing is like the cold weather, the rain, the winds and the gray sky. That is why winter is the best cheunga. ;)

The third and last freaking post! Into the wild.

I thought the book was good up until the part where the author starts talking about himself and shifts away from the main story. Almost be the end of the book, he starts like talking about how once he also had a similar experience like Christopher McCandless had. He is basically saying that he went "into the wild" and made if back alive. I thought that was unnecessary. I didn't really see why he would write about himself even though it relates a little to McCandless's story. I though he was kind of saying, by writing about himself, that he survived the wild because he is better. That is what was going on in my mind while reading that. I thought he was trying to say he did better than McCandless and that was the reason he survived nd McCandless died. That might not be the purpose of that part he wrote about himself but that's what went through my mind. I thought he had it easier than McCandless because he had all the equipment needed to survive while McCandless only had himself and really nothing else. I wouldve liked the book better if the author wouldn't have written about his experience.
I wonder what McCandless would have done with his life, had he survived. I thought maybe he would have gone back to studying and then he wouldve gotten a job and created a family. Maybe. I know that Krakauer writes at the end of the book that he was given permission to write bout such a sad story by the McCandless family but I wondered if Chris would have been happy with the publishment of this book.
This book was kind of weird in the way it was written because the author would start talking about McCandless's story, then something else, then about himself, then something else, then back to McCandless; it wandered around a lot. But in general I could understand the pattern. It didn't really have an order or a way of organization.
In conclusion, the book was good except for the part where the author added his own experiences. The book was written differently than any other book but it was still alright.
If took me a while to finish this book but so far it I the second best I have read this year.
Well, I am sleepy now so I'll finish with this.

Into The Wild second Book Response.

I found this book really interesting rather than boring. I like it because I know that the things, as crazy as they sound really happened. I like that feeling I get when something happens in a book and I know it really happened. I think of Chris as a normal person. Even though most people would say he wasted his life, I think that going to Alaska was just the decision he made for his own life.
Another reason why I like this book is bevause I like documentaries. I like knowing about real stories like this one. I think that Chria had his own way of seeing things, and he dis not think like all other humans.
I think that Chris just loved nature and just wanted to pe a part of it. He look for an adventure and he got an adventure.
In our discussion, we talked about how his adventure would have been different if he had taken resources with him. Maybe he wpuldve survived for longer. Maybe not. We also talked about his final goal; was it just to stay in Alaska forever or to go to Alaska and then come back?
I wonder how long his decomposed body spent in the sleeping bag before they found him. I know that in the story they said 2 weeks but I think he had to spend more days. It just doesn't make sense to me.
What about his family? What do they think about Chris's decision? I think they really worried when he was gone. When they got the news that Chris had died, I think that hurt them a lot. I also wondered if Chris regretted having gone on that crazy adventure after he had spent months in Alaska struggling to survive. I think that he didn't because that's what he wanted it seems and he never said anything about regret.