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Kory Harding is the son of Keith and Karen Harding of Mt. Hood. His sister, Keeley, 21, studies journalism at University of Oregon

Well, considering I haven’t done a whole lot with it, I don’t really know. I’ve gotten some flack at school about the photo taking and about how the story is going to be boring.

I worked as work presented itself. Mainly I did catering for Pampered Palette catering, doing weddings. I went camping with my grandpa and he taught me how to fly fish. I also made the switch from my film camera to a digital SLR camera. I couldn’t put it down once I got it. My one regret for the summer is that I didn’t do much sailing.

I have always enjoyed going down to the marina to look at the sailboats and watch the windsurfers. Recently I have really enjoyed going to Soul Cafe and spending time with friends.

My class load is alright. It’s not as hard as last year, but I’ve still got some difficult classes.

I am taking an internship at the Columbia Riverkeeper. This should be a great learning experience that could influence what I choose to study later on. I am anticipating a challenge in Writing 121. It seems like a good boot camp for all the writing to be done in college.

One of my challenges this year, as it was last year, is deciding between two things that I love. Unfortunately one can only do so many things. During freshman and sophomore years I swam on the high school team. Last year I agonized whether to swim or participate in the spring play. I ended up performing in The Ladies of the Camellias. Both activities were incredibly wonderful, and I will face the same choice this winter.

Currently, I am enjoying a closer look into the government system in the U.S. Connecting what I learned last year in A.P. U.S. History and what I learned from reading “A Peoples History of the U.S.,” by Howard Zinn, with new things this year in A.P. Government has been interesting.

I was home schooled until I started ninth grade. I spent a lot of time outside and learned to be comfortable in silence and solitude. My earliest memories of public school are quite vivid — of noise. I am not saying that negatively, necessarily, but it is just what I remember most about the first few days as a freshman.

The last book I read was a book by Ray Bradbury titled, “Fahrenheit 451.” I enjoyed reading this book because it made me think about our society in the U.S. today. It is not difficult to extrapolate the trends of our society to that of the futuristic world portrayed in “Fahrenheit 451.” On the other hand we at least have the potential to overcome that fate, which leaves me with hope.