A blogger??

I am not much of a net person. Ok, I often read the news online, I use facebook and youtube, but I don’t have twitter and I don’t usually read blogs, except a few from my friends. I often prefer to print something or sketch the map from google maps on a paper (I know I know, terrible, isn’t it?!), rather than walking with my phone in front of me, as if it was a compass and it was guiding me to the North. Also, after writing a 300 pages thesis, I swore I would never write another word on Word. But well, my current situation is not exactly “normal” for me.

I am away from my country not for a job, nor an internship, but for volunteering. The school where I am volunteering is great, but I am the only volunteer and almost the only foreigner in the school. Tourists here come and go, so I don’t have much chance to make friends. Apart from skyping with my family and chatting with the previous volunteer, I don’t have opportunities to share my thoughts and feelings.

Also, I am living an experience that is quite unusual, and I would like all my friends and relatives to be part of it. When people ask me: “How was your experience in India?” How can I answer in a few words? Impossible! It is much easier to tell them to read my blog. Not only they’ll understand what my experience was really like, but also they’ll find out many more things about India and maybe also about me than they would ever know by talking to me for a short time.

So here I am, a blogger in the end! It is true that I often say that I would like to write a book during my lifetime, but I usually picture that as me sitting at a wooden desk, facing a lake surrounded by evergreen trees, in a very calm surrounding and writing with a pen or an old typewriter. And I would be writing about romance and love and happy endings.

But I don’t think that I’d be a good writer because I like to be short and go straight to the point, so my books would probably be 10 pages long, rather than 1000 pages. A blog is probably perfect for me: short posts, freedom to change them and the feeling that I can do anything I want with it, I don’t have to submit it to anyone or get it published. So fingers crossed and let’s see what kind of blogger I am!