Post #4--Things I don't normally do

Homework. Give gum to people. Play guitar because I'm busy think about how I should be doing homework. Cook. Travel. Chores. Reading a war book.I don't normally do that. I don't think I've ever read a war novel. At first all I was reading about was soldiers playing skat- a card game- and them hanging around waiting to go to the front. It was just like reading history facts and didn't really seem like a story or novel. I kept reading because I would feel bad stopping, it was also a school assignment to read it; another thing I don't normally do. As I read along I was getting pretty deep into the book. It was walking down stairs. When you're at the top and look down the flight of stairs it looks way too long and tiring, all the turns and monotony of it seems exhausting. The steps and walls I can see are simply concrete with gray railings to border them. I walk down anyway and find that there are pictures on the walls every now again that I can see. I see that they are pictures of men leaving their homes to go to another land. The pictures don't tell the whole story yet. This gets me to notice all the other pictures on the walls that I wasn't aware of before. These pictures tell stories! I've read a lot of books before, I know how to read but I didn't know how to read this book.This is war, it's new to me.