Well, to be honest, this is not my first attempt to write a blog. I tried once in my high school. Unfortunately, things didn’t work out well. I used to treat blog like a more personal thing, writing things like diary and just express personal feeling. But as a matter of fact, it turns out that people sometimes may try to make things sounds better when they intends to go public. And there are times that feelings can be too personal to share, even I intended to. These are all reasons that held me back from keeping a blog running. Right, sometimes I got lazy and forget what to say afterwards. That’s another reason. Maybe this blog can be a more public one, I don’t know, just hoping that everyone can enjoy the process. It sounds fun, right?
Talking about other public writing experience, I had one before. It was interesting and challenging. In the summer of 2008, I went to the AIDS Village with some of my friends to do some research. We went to a small school where AIDS orphans are supported by the government. After spending two weeks with them, we had a close view of their life and made friends with them. After I came back home, I wrote an article describing the very experience as well as expressing my feelings during the whole unforgettable trip. Then, the article was posted on the school’s newspaper as well as on the websites of a couple other newspapers. The whole process was exciting, hoping that people would be intersted in my article, checking from times to times for feedbacks. I think I was lucky for actually having people’s attention in my work and got several feedbacks. It felt good to let other people know things from what I wrote, especially knowing that some people did things like donations to help the orphans after they had read the article.
That’s it, my short public writing experience. Hope you didn’t get bored while reading it.
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I thought that was pretty cool to hear about how you spent time with those children. I also liked how your writing got people to actually try and make a difference for those kids. Nice work.
ReplyDeleteHow did you get involved in volunteering at the AIDS village, and where is it at? I think that's really great that you donated your time like that and don't worry I wasn't bored at all while reading your blog! :)
ReplyDeleteThat sounds like such an amazing experience to have donated your time at the AIDS village! I can imagine that was probably a life-changing experience... very sad but still extremely worthwhile. I bet the little kids were so cute! How did you get the opportunity to do that? It's so impressive! And you got your writing published, nice job! :)
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like you had a great time while helping with the AIDS village! I would try to make sure your tense is the same throughout the same sentence. It's great that you got your article published in the newspaper because I never had the chance to do that. I hope you keep this blog running!
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing about your past public writing experience! As you can tell from these comments, I think it's really inspiring to many of us!
ReplyDeleteI'm also really interested in the blog you previously kept. Do you think trying to write so personally was just stressful? Or did you worry about other people reading about your personal life? I think it's very hard to balance how personal you should be in a public writing space, and I hope this class encourages us to think about some of these complex rhetorical situations. Can't wait to read more of your blog; like Katie said--not boring at all! :)