...two weeks of blogging

First of all I have to admit that I am really hopeless at computers, so I was a little scared when I found out that this course was about blogging, posting comments and using tools that I had never heard before. But after two weeks everything seems to be more clear and easy to me (but don’t even try to ask me how to change the colour of the layout or to centre your picture, please! Hahaa…).
The only problem is that my computer wants to dare me to fight as usual. After I understood more or less how to post my messages, things turned to be more difficult: the ADSL connection started working badly. That’s why I couldn’t be punctual in posting my things. But an angel fell from the sky…well, he wasn’t an angel, really, but a technician from the telephone company who repaired everything without asking me too many questions. Now I think I have what I need to win my computer and go on constantly with my e-tivities.

Joking aside, I enjoyed searching for blogs. I knew what they were, but I was not used to visit and read them. I thought they were just a sort of personal diary where people could write about their own life. But this is not true. Blogs are much more: you can find blogs about every kind of topic that comes to your mind. They can be informative and very professional, even if their language is often informal. I started becoming familiar with the etiquette, but I still like simple concise blogs. If they’re too sophisticated or they contain too many things, they turn to be confusing to me. I loved analysing the different kinds of styles people used, because they can tell you more about the writer, since everybody has its own personal way of writing or organizing things.

I had never considered blogs to be a way to learn and improve my English. After two weeks I can say that this new way of working and writing can be helpful and stimulating for many of us. Moreover, it’s going to be a hard work to keep on writing, reading and commenting blogs every week, especially for people like me, who prefer chatting in front of a cup of coffee, watching people directly in the eyes, instead of staying hours and hours in front of a screen. But I will devote myself to blogging, I promise. But at the end of the lesson, can we sit at a café???

...something about me

Here is the message I wrote to introduce myself to my classmates:

Hi everybody! I’ve chosen this picture because I love singing. Better, singing has become part of my everyday life...that's why I’m always humming tunes: on my way to school, at the supermarket, while doing the housework or cooking and, of course, under the shower, where sometimes I “give my best”! You know, the shower is my favourite stage, but my parents cannot stand my concerts anymore: they keep on telling me to lower my volume or to rush out of that place and hurry up because I’m late! This is what has constantly been happening in my “career” as a bathroom singer. As you can imagine, I had to find a solution. I decided to look for something which could allow me to shout and sing freely, but sound good: so I started taking lessons and singing in a big gospel group and other choirs. Since that moment I’ve become really fond of gospel and black music in general. The only problem is that now I sing and hum more than before…poor parents!

...welcome, bubble readers!

Welcome everybody! I'm Federico and this is the blog I'm going to use during this last year of university to post my E-tivities. I hope you'll enjoy sharing opinions and posts with me.

I called my blog "my thoughts in soap bubbles". You don't know where a soap bubble will go or the people it is going to meet during its way...so I liked this image to describe my messages: they are words inside soap bubbles...flying free. I really cannot know who is going to read them or who is going to write me back. I just know where they start, but their way is out of my control. Let's see what will happen.

Hugs, Fred.