Saturday, October 01, 2016

When I was six years old, my nan bought me Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. It was my first time reading a Harry Potter book and my first time reading a book ever. It gave me a love for books and fiction, and it was a story that I grew up with. A lot of that has to do with the fact that Harry Potter was a character that was around the same age as me. And he was somebody that I could grow up with and realte to. When I got to high school, this love of fiction only grew when I bought The Wheel of Time, an epic fantasy novel by Robert Jordan.

Well, the first one is the most successful Olympian of all time - American swimmer Michael Phelps. He became one of the top trending topics on Twitter today, thanks to qualifying for his fifth straight Olympic Games, making him the first American male swimmer to do so. Phelps earned his tickeks to the upcoming Rio Games by winning a 200-meter butterfly event at the U.S. Olympic swimming trials on Wednesday. The 31-year-old has an incredible 22 Olympic medals to his name, 18 of them gold. And some sports commentators expect him to add to that in Rio.