So I e-mailed my teachers during the summer to say hello and to get the reading lists so that I could at least to a certain extent be ahead of the game when it came to reading. I got most of the books, and most of them are a decent length, but one of them is over 800 words. What does that mean? 35 hours of listening to one book! It was a decent book at least, but still! I listen to books fast (in fact people wonder how I could listen that fast and understand, but I do actually) so it wasn’t as long as it could have been, but even if I did listen to it twice as fast as normal that’s still 17-18 hours of listening. I can just imagine how long that would take me to actually read if that was on paper. One time I took a reading test to see how fast I read and it was only about 100 words per minute. I think that does depend on the size of the print, but it’s not the best (which was an interesting thing when I was trying to help my mom study for her dog show test to see if she could judge dogs as we drove over to New York. I had to read the papers out to her, and sometimes I stumbled over my words, but it all worked out so yay! ) Actually that’s a thing about y reading. Because I have to look at each words sometimes it’s hard for me to tell where a sentence starts and ends so really it’s just a lot easier to listen to books. Even so that took a long time. I’m going to have to do it over again, but still, it certainly wasn’t an easy task.