Conclusion

    When freshman year began I was scared and confused and often lost in the mess of halls that make up OHS. But when I first sat down English I thought,” Now I'm home, now I know what I'm doing", that is, until you told us we would have to write a weekly blog. That scared me even more than the bearded seniors did (they really are frightening).  In the begging my blogs sucked, they were short, emotionless and riddled with spelling errors. Now there still hopelessly miss spelled but I've become comfortable enough with the idea of writing to the public that I make my posts meaningful to me, a little comical and surprisingly fun to write. Of course I still have a long way to go before my writing gets up to my standards but that’s where this activity helps. If we hadn’t of done the blogs I wouldn’t be writing and I think that’s the point isn’t it. You just wanted us to be able to write as often as possible, any thing that came to mind. What I don’t get is why we had to use blogs! A journal or notebook works just fine! Now I've got more than just my teacher reading my work, but my parents and friends and random Internet surfing people! I guess that was my biggest fear this year, not just with the blogs but with the discussions and poetry readings too. I was afraid of standing up and speaking up in class, having my feelings and ideas shared with the group. That doesn’t seem to bother me any more though. I guess its just exposser, having to do it over and over again I guess I just got used to it. With that I can say that this year has definitely been a learning experience, I must also say though that I have a lot of bad habits that I still need to stop, like spelling words the way they sound, that rule of just sounding things out no longer applies, and not writing in paragraph form, notice this entire post is one big blob of words, and of course chewing my nails, but that’s not related to English at all. I guess what I'm trying to say is that I've come to enjoy writing for an audience, people who can give me feed back on what I can improve on and what I did well. I also need an outlet, somewhere I can just go and write once a week, once a day. Someway to keep up the skills that I've learned this year. Which is why I hope you keep reading. In other words, “I’ll be back”.