Chapter one: Finding your Inner Fish

Like everyone has said, this book is really easy to understand and at first seemed very boring. As I was reading, it felt as if Subin was right in front of me telling his story. By page five Subin had me hooked to the book, stating " I can even scan your backyard for promising fossil sites right from my laptop (5)". How scary is that, but it almost makes me want to go outside and search for fossils. I'm probably living on top of fossil ready to be found, it might not be true but hey you never know.

Right after school got off, I went to Colorado where I saw many interesting sites. As I read this book, I kept reflecting back to my trip. Subin states "But movements of the earth's crust can cause faults that shift the position of the layers, putting older rocks on top of the younger ones" (6). I reflect back on my trip and I am amazed that I was standing next to rocks that were about billions of years old. As Subin has said in this quote, that is how Red Rocks was formed and was uplifted on to the surface. It's ironic that I'm reading this book and I can relate it to my trip to Colorado which makes it even more interesting. During my trip, I also visited Mount Rushmore. Keystone, where Mount Rushmore is at, has very interesting shiny rocks unlike the ones in California which made me look back to to my trip as I read chapter one.

Subin also gives us an image, like when he described Pennsylvania. I also found it interesting that we could relate to fish, a creature that is totally different from how we are structured. The diagram on pg 26 illustrates how a fish can evolve into a human. I stared at the diagram for a while in amazement thinking..."How am I that fish?" Subin ended the chapter with " ...the story of the making of our bodies(27)" which made me thirst for some more.

- Ashima Gore :)