Semester Final

Over this year I have blogged about football, music, my life, and many other topics. As I look back on my blog post I realize, that they are all related to another. My song post goes to another song, and those songs go to a blog post for a girl. It has been a difficult journey this year going every week blogging about a topic, and then it actually being true, just makes it a better blog post. As I write about my blog, and answer these questions, the real me will show to you, and you may be surprised what you see.

1. How do you like having a blog? How has blogging changed the way you write, the way you think, or the way you think about writing?
• Has blogging had any other effects on your life beyond strictly your "school life"? If so, explain.
  
• For the second semester only: Do you plan on continuing to publish writing on your blog this summer, next year, or beyond? If so, what are your writing goals and how will you use your blog in the future?

Blogging this year was a great deal of fun, even though it took a large sum of effort. At first I had nothing to talk about because I could never think of a topic I could blog about repetitively, but, by the end of the semester I learned what I can do. I began writing about my life, my songs, and the books I was reading.

Blogging has changed my life over this semester. During the middle of the year I became an outcast, a loner and it was not fun. I felt depressed but I was able to push through the barrier with the assistance of my family and counselor. I would blog about my family life and all of the problems in my life. Now as I look back on my blog, I can see the drastic changes in my writing and in my life. This experience in my life has helped me through the troubles of adolescence and all of the many challenges of schoolwork. Blogging has helped me vent my feelings, kind of like a psychiatrist makes you lay down on the sofa and just lets you talk about your problems.

Beyond my school life, I was able to keep my emotions in check and try to hide them, to keep myself on track for college, and for my future career. Blogging has helped me share emotions with other people that I care about. Blogging made me a more outgoing person, and a better person.

I plan on blogging throughout the summer and blog about the days of summer. Maybe even after the summer I will attempt at keeping up on writing and posting on my blog. My summer is looking busy, so I will write about it in a journal, and after put in in electronic form for my blog.
Some of the goals for my blog are : first, To write about my life, second, to write a blog post every week, and finally, to finish the story of me and a girl.

1. Explain one or two ways your writing has improved (or not) over the semester. Include a few examples from your posts over time, with analysis and links to the original posts, to illustrate how the improvement(s) happened.
   
• For the second semester only: If you want, you can reflect on improvements you've noticed over just the second semester, the entire year, or even multiple years if you have examples of your writing from the more distant past.

In the beginning of the year, my writing was repetitive, redundant, and boring. Now at the end of the year you can tell the difference in my writing, because it is better structured, and interesting. through out the year my writing has improved postdramatically, and it has become more stimulating if you read it. Certain aspects of my blog posts have changed the way I have written a post, but that was because of the challenges in my life. The difference between the first and the second post here can be shown. From the beginning of the year post:

Throughout this experience, I was able to grow and become a stronger person mentally and physically. I am now able to be more responsible for myself and my actions. As I waited for this week to end by marking days on my calendar, I realized that I should work harder for the good things in life. Now I can be in situation where I am alone and can get over the factor of fear and use its conquest for good use. I hope that I can remember these days and look back on them with a positive light.

From this excerpt of my writing you can already tell how it needs to be more structured and condensed into fewer sentences to reduce the amount of redundancy. It should be

"By this experience in my life, I grew stronger mentally and physically, and became responsible for my own actions. I waited, marking everyday on a calender, then realizing that if I work harder in life I will succeed. Now in any situation, I will get over my fears and remember the days in a positive light."

The second post:

When you live in an overpopulated area such as the San Francisco Bay area, it is hard to get a job. The competition of job hunting i9s not an easy one while you live here, but you have to get one to survive. From morning to night, you have to search Craigslist.com, and Monster.com, and Ladders.com for all of the job opportunities around. But for a simple job, the best way to get one is to stroll the businesses in your community. My sister did this for weeks until she landed one.

This is a way better structured post, with detail, that is exemplifying the enormity of job hunting, and how to do it. This post needs only one real change and that is on the sentence, "The competition of job hunting is not an easy one while you live here, but you have to get one to survive."

I am grateful for the opportunity to have a blog, and have followers, and I hope that Mr. Sutherland keeps on following me on blogger to keep up with my experiences, and anything he likes about my writing. Now that the year is over, tune into me next week by Thursday and I will have a new post about my life, and the people in it.