Behind the Blog.

Before I make my first official post, I would like to have a little "about the author" display. First, I would like to make it clear that any interpretations or poorly worded essays you may see in the future comes from the fingertips of a mere and completely average high school student. I am most definitely not a studied scholar. I will frequently make atrocious grammatical errors, so tread carefully.

Chances have it that the only people who will be reading my blog are those forced to my fellow classmates in English. Regardless, I should still introduce myself. I attend a public high school in California and I enjoy reading and photography. Due to a poor habit of skipping or skimming between passages I have not completely finished a book in years. 

I don't have a definite favorite book, but I do like the Iliad. The insults, the battles, and the complexions of Achilles' character snared me right in. Right now I am reading multiple books in a very slow pace. One nonfiction book I'm reading is "The Emotional Life of Your Brain" by Richard J. Davidson. It's on neuropsychology and it talks about his personal discovery of what he calls "emotional styles". From what I understand 27 pages in (No. I am absolutely not slow. I'm very quick.) is that we all have distinct way on how we react to things; which we owe due to particular regions of the brain. From what he's saying, it is completely possible to rewire how you think and feel.

Another lovely tale I'm reading right now is "The Vintner's Luck" by Elizabeth Knox. This one is a lot harder to process. This book takes place in the 19th century in Burgundy, France, and follows the story of a winemaker named Sobran Jodeau. On one particular day each year, we get an insight into his life; from age 18 until his death. The prose is difficult to digest and is oftentimes unclear on what is happening, but I think I'll keep reading.

In terms of digital photography I can hardly say that I understand the technicalities of it. Yet, I would sometimes go out somewhere and takes pictures of mostly nature, particularly birds. I don't exactly like taking pictures of purely birds, but I do know of one or two places where hawks go to hunt and I can take a shot of a bird in flight. 

Of course, these few things don't really inform you much about myself as I'm sure those who has the luck to read and photograph are in the billions. At the moment I'm starting to drink tea. I'm liking it so far although I prefer it cold. That's something I'm going to have to change. 
To add on to this useless pile of info about myself; around the end of last year I was fairly inflexible--only able to touch my toes and nothing more. But in the summer I started to just mindlessly stretch a bit when I'm sitting or lying down and it got to the point where I'm now able to do the splits.
This is all fairly bland, isn't it? Apologies, but I don't know anything worth noting about myself.



Thank you for reading this and I hope I didn't sound too pretentious writing this lot of words. I sincerely hope you have a wonderful day or evening! Rest well.

Regards,
Hannah Wu