Wednesday, June 18, 2008

The Point of this Whole Idea

sup homies?
Since, you know, I'm leaving the country in 3 days, it has been decided (by myself) that it would be in the best interests of the world for me to start a blog to keep those of you who are amused by the happenings of my life apprised of these happenings.

The problem with this is that blogs are journal-esque, correct? and I have a lot of problems with journals. Actually, I have two main problems with journals
1. I don't think I have ever kept one for more than about two entries. The reasons for this is both my dislike of writing and my lack of desire to have to fit a time for writing into my life.
2. Every time I have ever looked at a journal that I wrote in (like, years later) I realized what an idiot I was at that point in time and destroyed the journal, in order to pretend that I was never an idiot.

So!
In order to avoid these issues, my plan is to make this more like writing emails about the happenings in my life while I am off adventuring. This way I wont have to write an email to 50 billion (or like 5) people if I fall asleep in a museum and wake up to a sketchy man taking my picture. or something...

However, just because I am writing this does not mean that emails are not expected from every single person I know. Because they ARE! Because I like to know everything that ever happens to everyone ever, and to do that when I am in another country, I need people to inform me of everything that ever happens ever. Also, I will email back.

Additionally, DukeEngage wants us to reflect and stuff about our experience. But, I do not think I am a particularly reflective person. So they keep emailing us with all these prompts for us to consider in our reflection, and they make me think of essays and school which is upsetting. However, since they are not actually forcing us to answer these questions, if they ask me whether I have been reflecting, I can be like
"Yea man, just check out my blog, yo."
And hopefully they
1. will just be satisfied with that answer and not look.
2. do and are satisfied.
3. do and I manage to spontaneously reflect in the midst of just relating the happenings of my adventures (which is all I'm trying to do).

Well, that is all I really have to say because I feel weird writing about things in my life when at this point I could pick up a phone and call to tell people about them, I am going to be done writing. I leave for Poland on Saturday and the only Polish words I can seem to remember right now are "tak" (yes) "nie" (no) and "nie rozumiem" (I don't understand). So basically, I am totally set.

4 comments:

Mike said...

SOOOOOOO PINK...

It blinds me.

-MKH

Jaymeson said...

Remember to say "JesteÅ› fajna foczka" to all the hot girls you see.

Unknown said...

Hi, Kaitlin! I haven't talked to you in forever, but I hope you're having a good summer so far. You're leaving tomorrow!!!! Take lots and lots of pictures and remember to make posts on your blog! I don't think I'll have one, because I don't really know if I'll have access to the internet. I'm planning on keeping a journal though, to satisfy DukeEngage people :)

This is an extremely long comment, but I'll see you soon!!! And be safe!

Anonymous said...

we suck at hanging out.
or, mainly, I suck because I have too many jobs, and therefore little to no free time.
I'm excited about this blog project whatever thing. :)
Have fun and be careful! I'm jealoussss...