My Blogging Experience

About my blogging experience...

I enjoyed it. I can’t say OH MY GOD, I LOVED IT, but yeah, I liked it, because it was really helpful to practice and improve my skills and vocabulary to write in english.

A thing I didn’t like was to have to write the posts IN CLASSES. But considering the other point of view, it was great not to have homeworks. Um, I think there should have been one or two opportunities to write about whatever we wanted! I would’ve really enjoyed that.

The other thing I didn’t like was the low amount of classmates who read or commented my blog. I felt like I was writing only to myself... Like an emo. Hahaha, that sounds sad! Nah, I’m exagerating.

It’s hard to interact that easily with people you don’t know. Sometimes you have no idea about what to comment...

Maybe I would have been more comfortable with this if I had known my classmates before this course. The person I most interacted with was Loreto, but that’s nothing new because I met her years ago! XD

It’s not that I wanted to make new friends or anything but, comparing the first clases with the last ones, I realized that the “social circles” stayed just the same. Maybe it’s due to the different careers we belong to. I don’t know.

But the good thing is, despite all this, I could know a little more about my classmates anyway, and that’s fun.

Sometimes when you see a person, you can make a wrong impression of them. But when you read what they write, you get to know them a bit, and then the prejudice wall can easily tumble down. It may sound poetic but it’s true!

Lorelai!

I reviewed Loreto Jimenez’ blog. Yeah, she’s my friend, so I enjoy visiting it, and I can recognize many things of her personality when I read what she writes.

Her blog is sleepingcrusade.blogspot.com, but the main title is “Hypnos”. I don’t really know what this means, but I can’t help thinking about her abbility to get asleep. She reminds me to the Sleeping Beauty… but the one from the movie Shrek The Third.



She has written 10 posts till now. This may sound a little sentimental, but when I read them, I felt her own essence: honesty, simplicity, comedy, and a bit of fantasy. And other bit of ‘weirdness’. But to me, her ‘weirdness’ is not weird at all. I’m a little weird too… because I think we are different among the rest of our classmates, at least here in the English class.

My favorite post is My Career Sucks, published on May 21. It made me feel SO identified when I read it. And the picture she put was so funny!


That's how I reacted when I read some posts.

The aspect she should improve a bit (and she knows it too) is her writing, but in the formal, grammatical and orthographical way. Despite all this, she understands the meaning of the words perfectly, so their posts are completely readable.

I don’t really think there are bad things in her blog, actually. I can say something from the point of view of graphic design… Maybe another header, just to start. The use of other colors, and a sidebar. Stuff like that.

Picture

I really do like today's topic. It's about my favorite picture.

There's not much to say about why I love this one... Heheh.
As you can see, it's a photograph about me and my boyfriend. It was taken the day of his brother's wedding, by their cousin. We were in the civil ceremony, celebrated last year on November. We were in the house of the bride's sister.

I really enjoyed being there with my boyfriend's family, having a good time and eating delicious food :). And we were all happy for the newlyweds, of course.

The funny thing is, my boyfriend doesn't like the way he looks on this picture because his face is so serious. But he wasn't! I like the way he looks... And the way we look together. Of course I look very happy, with my usual, natural blush. And no, I wasn't drunk or anything, haha. In fact, I don't drink, and neither does he. He only drinks a small glass of wine when he eats meat or something, but that' all.

The fact that I chose this picture may seem narcissist of my part, but it's not. It's just that it brings me so many beautiful memories...

And I like to imagine that when we get old, we'll show this picture to our grandchildren and remember all the good things we lived together by that time of our lives.