A summer to remember #summer16

Summer of 2016; one of the best summers of my life. 

This summer was a summer to remember, and one that will stay with me forever. This summer was busy, exciting, and very breathtaking. My summer started off on the day that school ended with a short trip to New Mexico to visit my dad, and to drop off my brother, I would shortly be coming back in June after a two week trip to South America. Once I got back to Baton Rouge at the end of may, my mind was racing with the possibilities and worries of going to Chile with a group of students that I didn't really know. The days slowly got closer and closer, and then it was June fourth, the day that we were leaving. That June 4th was the start of an adventure, one that I will never regret. 

  It all started from that day that I got on a plane to a different country and began to see the world in a totally different way. New friends, new beautiful sights seen, and new experiences. Chile was a place that I got to reconnect with a friend that I hope I will have forever, a place where I got to live in the different culture, and a place where I became very close with people that will now always hold a place in my life. 

 But my summer didn't stop there. I went back to New Mexico, and let myself relax with friends, nature, and the happiness of summer. I went camping in Colorado for a week, and gave myself a chance to clear my mind, and let go of technology. Then I went to Cape Cod, and let the waves wash over me and let the sun shine down on my skin, giving me the suntan that I look forward to every year. This summer was a summer of friends, nature, travel, love, and good spirit; a summer that will go in the books.

We Were Liars

"We Were Liars" by E. Lockhart, was one of the most realistic and also surprising books that I have read. It starts out as a normal story of a family who spends their summers on their private island in Massachusetts, and turns out to be a story full of love and tragedy.  As I was reading I became more and more attached to the characters. I felt more like I was living in the story instead of just reading it as one of my summer reading books. Cadence's life is so complex, with so many unanswered questions, and so much family drama at the same time. Their lives are so far from perfect, and thats what made me want to read more and more. 

    I really enjoyed how the book expressed how every family has flaws, especially the ones that are trying to be so perfect in the first place. The way that this big family secret is kept made me not suspect anything at all, but once it was revealed it took me a few minutes to wrap my head around it. I also love how Cadence slowly starts remembering things, and becomes more aware to everything that happened in her past, because the reader is figuring out things slowly too.