Stop?

I’ll keep writing

It’s been 10 weeks since I created this blog, my first ever blog, as an assignment.

10 weeks ago, I started it with no idea in mind. How could I have two entries a week? How could I exist in the cyber world which I had only toured around for reading news or searching things?

I come from a developing country where IT application is popular but only a small group of people can master it. In my country, we contact by face-to-face talks, by phones, by fax, by papers, and recently by email and by blog (only Yahoo360). I should remind you that internet was first introduced in Vietnam probably in 1997.

I belong to the 1760s generation who saw the first TV in our life when we were in the 6th grade. We learnt how to use computer at university. We love the internet and use it every day but we don’t have the habit of putting everything in blog. We are only the visitor of Internet, not the citizen.

It’s still clear in my mind that in the first lesson of UTS online journalism, I could understand nothing. I had no idea of “tumblr, twitter, blog awards, HTML…”.

I kept asking and asking so many things. I asked my lecturer, classmates, younger friends…everyone, who was good at using internet. Sometimes, I did feel that people stared at me as if I fell from another planet (yes, I come from a quite different world). I spent much time figuring out what is with HTML, making links or connecting my blog with other sites.

I was encouraged by my teacher, by the study pressure and by the must to get over this big challenge so as to catch up with the world development. I wrote about many things: my daughter, my thoughts, my country, Sydney…The more I write, the more I feel confident to write and the more I need to write about. I then realize that I get used to a new habit of writing something in my blog whenever it is Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Now, I can write directly in my blog instead of cutting and pasting from Word document:”>

I used to be haunted by many unhappy ending when you show up too much on the internet. But after I become a member of citizen journalism, I find out the interesting sides of a new world where you can reach as far as you want and you never have enough time to finish anything. In this world, I built my new house called Blog in tumblr. This is the place I can express myself or and exchange things. It’s a very good way to train my writing skills, to share and to receive.

Yesterday, I happily informed my husband that I have registered in Twitter; I have posted my photos on Flickr; I could create a project on savefile.com. That might be simple for you but means much for me. I’m proud of what I have created.

I’m like a tortoise, slowly but patiently heading to my finish.

My assignment has been done but I’ll keep visiting my blog regularly. It may be my online diary I write for myself and for my children.

I don’t have a lot of friends in my blog because it is written in English (while my English is not good), not in my language.

But I may be the 1st Vietnamese guy having a blog in tumblr. Do you believe that?