Assigned Entry #1: Blogs!

First and foremost, writing is not my thing.  As long as I can remember I have never been one to enjoy writing.  It was like pulling teeth for me.  I have always enjoyed math and science a lot more.  Blogs however are a lot less torturous for me.  Blogs allow you a little more freedom. They are not as rigid as writing an essay.  With essays or reports, there are requirements such as format, length, and topic.  Blogs allow you to put a little bit of your personality in it and allow you more freedom. Being able to have that freedom makes me a little more comfortable with writing. 

One thing I do enjoy is reading.  After reading through some of these blogs and other ones that I have stumbled across, I've become really fascinated with the blogs and the people who write them.  Some of the blogs are so creative and even just the layout makes them very interesting. One of the blogs I really enjoyed reading was the The Everywherist ( http://www.everywhereist.com/ ).  This blog is written by a lady named Geraldine DeRuiter, who after got laid off from her job joined her husband on his trips to many different towns.  What I enjoyed about her blog is that it is not very typical.  She writes about random things that not everybody would write about when explaining their travels with their husband.  Another blog I enjoyed was The Big Picture ( http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/ ).  What I enjoyed about this blog is that it is a photo blog.  When I read something, I always try to put a picture in my head of what is being described.  This blog however is the opposite.  This blog is a photo blog and  it has some beautiful and interesting pictures that are so captivating that make me want to travel to those places in the pictures. However, the blogs that I did not enjoy were the corporate blogs.  They were very straight forward and kind of dry in my opinion, such as the Wal-Mart blog.