I am a neo-blogger

I have never read a blog in all my life before starting this course. And I firmly thought that I would never read one.
But you know what? You never can tell!
I have always been suspicious to blogs, maybe also because I didn’t exactly know what they were, and we are always afraid of the unknown.
But navigating around the web I discovered this new world: the blogosphere. And I have also discovered that blogs are not all the same; some of them are very interesting, they look like a web site, but they are much more useful because you can communicate in order to ask questions, give your contribution to the topics and leave your opinion. But I have to admit that I still don’t understand why people write blogs even if they have nothing interesting to say. It seems like a matter of fashion, that’s why many young boys and girls write their blog like they were writing a diary...a public diary! But who on heart is going to read it?!?!
We were told to create and develop our own blog...what a shock! I really didn’t know what to do! So, I sat down and looked around the blogosphere to see what people usually say and writes in their blogs in order to find some sort of inspiration, and finally I realized what I wanted to put in mine.
Ok, now that my blog exists I have to write posts...and here comes the second shock! We have been studying english for a very long time, they made us write commercial and formal letters, sum up newspaper articles and translate the strangest articles about the cannon balls of the english army...but colloquial english is something different and I felt a little bit lost! Colloquial English is what people daily use in their life to communicate but for me it’s not that easy! I am sure that it is just a matter of training: we have to read, to write and to speak to get used to this register.
So, leaving all my suspicions behind, I face this course with excitement and curiosity, I’m sure that we’ll learn a lot about blogs and “technologies” and improve our english!

Hi everybody!
I'm Cristina, and
this is the Avenida de Gaudí in the Eixample quarter in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Right at the end of this street is where I have been living during my Erasmus. I have chosen this pic to represent me beacuse the 9 months I spent in Barcelona have been the best of my life. Once I saw a guidebook on Catalonia in which they where analysing the different kind of poeple living in Barcelona and to be an erasmus student was considered as a social role...kind of strange! Living in this city has been a great experience, but not only because I was away from Italy, without my parents, in one of the best European city for having fun.. well, that's important too! But there is something more, something deeper, something that only who as been an erasmus can understand. I have learned a lot in BCN, I studied, worked and had fun. I met a lot of persons with which I'm still in contact, of course :-). I discovered a magic city that goes beyond the same old tourist places, there are some corners and little streets that leave me brethless, there are museums and artistic buldings, there is the crowded beach that becomes suddenly sparkling with its parties and bonfires in summer, there is the colourful market of La Boqueria full of exotic products and the Rambla with its street artists catching the turists' attention.
So...that's me!!

Now, here there are two web-sites I often visit:
http://www.hostelworld.com/index.php?affiliate=hostelsworld.com
first of all, I tell you that I love traveling but I'm often hard up :-) and so, this is a very usefull site where you can find cheap solutions to sleep while travelling. You can choose the country and the city where you want to go to see the various hostels and B&B!
http://www.ferroviedellostato.it/
this is another web site that, against my will, I often have to use! The point is that I commute between Treviso, that is where I live, and Padova...That's a hard life!

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