Summer reading (post one)

I am reading the book, Looking for Alaska, by John Green. Culver Creek Preparatory School is the setting of this book, this boarding school okay, not a perfect boarding school but, not terrible.  It has a huge campus, but doesn’t have air conditioning (except for in the classrooms), there are lots of people to become friends with but, the showers are really bad (almost no water comes out of them). The students sleep in cabins fit for two people, and the only way the students can talk to their parents is with a pay phone. In this book, there are many main characters, such as, Miles Halter, Alaska Young, Chip Martin, Takumi, and Lara. Miles Halter got a nickname the first day that he went to boarding school from Chip Martin; Chip Martin is Miles roommate at Culver Creek. The nickname that Chip gave Miles was “Pudge”.  This nickname was ironic since Miles was very skinny. Chip Martin also has a nickname, “The Colonel”. Chip got this nickname the first years he went to boarding school. Alaska is Pudge’s and the Colonel’s neighbor, and Alaska is also the Colonel’s best friend. Lara is one of Alaska’s many friends on campus.  Alaska ends up setting Pudge up with her. Takumi is also one of the Colonel’s and Pudge’s neighbors and he has known the Colonel since he started going to Culver Creek. Pudge is very nervous about going to a boarding school, instead of his school down in Florida, because he doesn’t know if he will make any friends. I predict that later on in the book he will meet his new best friend at Culver Creek. I think that his best friends will end up being Alaska and the Colonel because they all live near each other. I can make a text to self-connection because when I went to camp a few summers ago, we stayed in cabins with no air conditioning just like everyone in Culver Creek.