First Post

To everyone who reads this; this is my first post ever on a blog and I’d like to cover a few things. First off my name is Johnathan Pryor and I am in my first year of college. You may have noticed that my background on my blog is of a Mount Everest. I love being outdoors and I love backpacking. Going out into the wilderness and not seeing another soul, other than the people in your party, for seven or eight days is truly one of the best feelings in the world. It reminds me of being away from the distractions of life where you don’t have Facebook, you don’t have instagram, you don’t have the nasty air quality, you don’t have the noise from a city bothering you. It reminds me that I have been places that almost no one else has been. It reminds me of waking up with a coating of ice covering the top layer of my sleeping bag. It reminds me of how many bears I've seen and how I could’ve been attacked by one. Getting away from the normal life and living a little more on the edge is what I enjoy doing.  This is why I chose that background. I said above that I am in my first year of college. You may be wondering why I am in college. I have an answer for you; I am in college to get an education that will help me succeed with what I want to do in life. Now you may be wondering why I am starting to blog and to put it plainly, I am doing this for my English class. What I hope to learn in this class is how to read, write and analyze texts in the most effective and efficient way possible.