Blogging is a way of life

They say blogging has replaced diaries, blogging has replaced letters and blogging is a phenomenon which isn't going away. There are fashion bloggers, news bloggers (some of them get ahold of news BEFORE the newspapers), sports bloggers, celebrity bloggers, travel bloggers, cooking bloggers, gossip bloggers, baby bloggers, pregnancy bloggers, music bloggers, political bloggers, and the list goes on.

I don't know what exactly it is that makes me WANT to blog, gives me the urge to publish news and tidbits from my life, my experiences, my opinions. Why I want to write about my trip to London and the latest book I'm reading, even though no one might be reading what I blog. I've had a blog in Norwegian for a while now, which is really just political and I wanted to do something else. Have a more "normal" blog, where I write about who I am, for people to read if they want to. I've always found it somewhat amazing, that you can get to know so much about a person by browsing the internet. I'm not talking age, race, gender, orientation - those things don't matter much to me. I'm talking about who we are inside. For instance, I love the website PostSecret. People mail in the secrets anonymously, and we can all read them and relate, and I feel that brings me closer to those people than reading info about them anywhere would ever do.

Well, I should proably introduce myself - with all those meaningless facts. My name is Jenny, I am an 18-year old girl from Norway who is enjoying life. I'm in the last year of high school, or upper secondary school if you wish (high school is from 15/16-18/19 here, depending on whether you're born in spring or autumn), so I'll be 19 when I graduate this june. (My birthday is april 6th.) I have always wanted to become a journalist, and I'm a quite spontaneous person, but there are some things I just don't "mess with", and education plans is one of them. But I really do want to travel too, I've considered going to Latin America for a year to volunteer somewhere, so I can learn Spanish properly, learn about their culture and their history and make lots of new friends.

This entry is pretty long now, so I'll be back later.