Time flies when you're having fun...

I decided to start this post about my first two weeks of blogging quoting this sentence Mrs Guth pronounced at the end of our last lesson, while we were trying to create, modify and writing posts, challenging with Html language. As I heard her words I immediately thought that in that moment I was actually very far from sharing her opinion, but this was probably because when I have to do with computers there is always something that doesn’t work or that I can’t control and I hate when I can’t control the situation, I simply get very nervous.
These two first week of blogging have been quite demanding and I can’t say I really had fun – but maybe I wasn’t supposed to anyway. Probably at the beginning it is always hard because we have to familiarize with the programs and the blogs but once we understand how it works everything should be easier. Although we had only two e-tivities to accomplish I realized I spent a lot of time surfing the Net: writing a presentation wasn’t really demanding from this point of view, after all we had only to find a photo that suited our personality but e-tivity 2 was slightly more difficult to carry out. I think I visited a dozen blogs before finding those that interested me the most and I wasn’t even very happy with them but time was running out and could spent days exploring the whole blogospere as I had also to write a post with meaningful observations. I really don’t think that spending so much time in front of a computer might be really productive for our English, I mean, we have the opportunity to read a lot of English texts with different styles but sometimes it turns out to be boring and even frustrating, however this first semester is all about blogging so staring in front the computer for hours will be normal, that is why I’m realising that my complains just do not make any sense.
I hope that we will be able to have more conversation with our peers on Monday because so far we didn’t have the possibility to discuss a lot, we only exchange a few words and if we are supposed to improve our oral skills and speak English fluently it would be a good idea to focus on conversation, although I’m aware that there are lot of students and it’s going to be challenging.
Let me know what you think, I’m looking forward to having your responses!

Welcome!

Hello! Welcome to my blog! It seems so strange to me to have one to write on: so far I have always been reading and leaving comments on those of my friends and I had never thought to create my own blog. Honestly my abilities in informatics are quite limited, something that really stopped me from getting my own blog, but I must confess I was neither interested in learning how to create it and fill in texts, images and links. Actually the problem is that I don’t like the core idea blogs are based on, that is to make your thoughts, observations and personal experiences public and as a consequence to share them with a lot of people who have the opportunity to leave comments. If there is something I want to talk about I prefer calling my close friends and discuss it with them rather than writing a post: in this way I can express my self freely without worrying about being at any cost politically correct or about mentioning the real names of other people without ambiguities. In other words I felt that writing on a blog meant not to be completely honest, not completely “real” as I can’t forget I’m talking to a wide range of people and I have to respect netiquette.
I must admit that having a blog has positive aspects as well, for instance it is a good way to keep in touch with friends who live far from you and that you meet rarely and it is also a way to improve your English. Anyway I’m still convinced that if it wasn’t for Mrs Guth I would never and ever have a blog of my own and I would just keep on visiting the blogs of my friends (in fact I have the tendency not to read the blogs of the people I don’t know because I have the impression of “entering someone else’s house without having being invited”).
As you can see the title of my blog is not very original: I decided to put my name and surname because I though it would be easier for me and for my peers to remember, furthermore I couldn’t get inspiration last Wednesday in the laboratory so I really put the first thing that came to my mind but as soon as I find a more appealing title I will change it!

Finally, in spite of all my insecurities and suspiciousness towards writing on a blog I promise I will make a good use of this virtual space and that I will try to be always as honest and clear as possible. In the next days I’m going to insert some useful links and I will update my profile, meanwhile I hope you will enjoy reading my posts.