Been thinking about starting a blog for quite a while. Life is interesting, and good to record it for when the old brain cells betray me, and in case anyone else is interested. It was my birthday recently, time to take stock and explore new activities, such as recording life's excitements. For years as a kid I had diaries, mostly full of teenage woes and thrills when I look back at them, but in recent times I have been keeping a personal online diary which records more of the activities of life. Blogging seems the logical next step, activities and ideas, and now seems like a good time to start, especially as I now finally have working internet access here at home in Samoa.
I live within a stone's throw of Robert Louis Stephenson's former home in Samoa, on the hill behind Apia. For the past few weeks I have been reading his Letters from Vailima (an ebook downloaded for free on my new ipad2 - birthday pressie to self) and marvelling at the efforts he made to make a life for himself here. He even built and used a fireplace, which I simply can't imagine ever wanting to be close to in this climate, which is hot or hotter all year (and all day) round. His house is maintained as a museum, and you can walk to his grave on the top of Mt Vaea and admire the panoramic view of Apia. He was named Tusitala by the locals - teller of tales - and there is a hotel named after him in town. His connections with the world were so much slower than ours today - months on a sailing ship between letters.
I'm not as patient as RLS. For more than a year I have been frustrated in efforts to get home internet connected. Mind you, being connected's not cheap like home in Australia - 1.5GB per month here costs 149tala - roughly $65 back in Australia, where that amount of data is nothing. Have to learn to be careful what I download onto the i-Pad as I have already learned to my cost that it is ridiculously easy to use up 1.5 GB.
Hopefully blogs are less data heavy to run. If not, postings here will be well interspersed!
Welcome to the world of personal blogging, Lif! Great start and a good thought. Mind you, my favourite website for blogging is posterous.com as it works by allowing you to email your updates and yet looks great! Very easy to set up and use, and bandwidth friendly as you can compose your post as a email and save it as a draft until you are ready to put it online. My one is jaxxa.posterous.com - Hugs, John.
ReplyDeleteWelcome to the blogosphere Lizzie! I recently participated in an initiative to 'blog every day of June' which I didn't quite manage, but it was fun trying.
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