Most people write blogs when they do exciting things, like travelling, going on a gap year or starting a new venture in life; job, marriage, kids. I just finished my year abroad, and as much as I would have loved to have a blog to look back on, detailing every exciting experience and observation I encountered during my year in Paris, the truth is that I was far too busy having fun to actually keep a daily/weekly/monthly blog. I had good intentions (I set up the blog page,) but the stories I had to tell just kept accumulating and the longer I left it, the less justice I felt I could give the experience. I could never express the emotions/ excitement/ fear/ frustration/ homesickness etc. I had felt. The more time passed, the more my memory faded too. Luckily I kept a very lazy diary in which I documented the highlights of the year with all the personal nitty-gritty, girly-gossip-style stories included. So, when I'm old and wrinkly I can flick through those pages to remember what I used to be like when I was young, free and foolish.
You see, that was always my problem with blog writing; a kind of insecure, self-conscious perfectionism and indecision in selecting my target audience. A blog written for friends and family has a very different tone/content to a blog written for the general public. And so, in fear of never writing a blog at all, I have decided to ignore all of these details, stop thinking about who will read what I have written and just get down to business and write the blooming thing.
So, without further ado, here it is: my blog, for whoever wants to read it. At times it may be personal and others perhaps even useful, given that I'm about to start my finals it will most-likely often be used as an outlet for stress, there may be strong language and there will most-definitely be long-windedness/tangents, so please do bear with me and my train of thought. I hope you enjoy it, although I wouldn't get too hopeful... given my blogging history it's possible I will give up after a week. Anyway- here goes...
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