English Final 2

2. Choose one of your posts. (Your favorite? Your least favorite? The one that surprises you the most when you reread it? Any one you want to pick.) Analyze it in detail, with quotes etc. And link to it, of course!

While I was reviewing my older blog posts, my favorite post was when I went snowboarding several times. This link is all my snowboarding trips I have blogged about Boreal Ski Resort, North Star Ski Resort,Squaw Valley Ski Resort, Dodge Ridge Ski Resort. I had one more snowboarding trip but I accidentally delete it. The one I deleted was my first time snowboarding with my friend, Adam. We went somewhere around Yosemite National Park in 2008. My other trips I went with in Boreal was with my sister and her boyfriend. The rest of the trips I went with my sister, just the two of us. When Winter comes by it is my favorite season of the year because ever since I went snow boarding I like it a lot. Even tho went I went for the first I had fun when I fall. When I went on my second trip to Boreal I was excited. You will found this quote in Boreal Ski Resort. " Since it was my second time I wasn't nervous going down the slope because I did okay on my first snowboarding trip. So I went for it gaining a lot of speed about less than half down and I end up face planting onto the ground." When I reread this blog I remembered when I fell and made when smile. After I fell I end up busting my lip and it went numb. Never go to Boreal because it is a small place and the snow is not really soft. I love to snowboard. As I kept going on snowboarding trips, I gotten better and better. I do not fall as much now, but only when I am tired and need to rest my legs. On my last trip I finally found out how to get off the ski lift without falling. All you need to do is go straight down the lift and stay in the middle of your snowboard. When I go on snowboarding trips It feels fast and you only have like seven hours to snowboard. Most of them open until 9am-4pm. I wished it could open for another extra hour. I can not wait until my next snowboarding trip with my sister which is in about seven months.

8. How do you like having a blog? How has blogging changed the way you write, the way you think, or the way you think about writing?

Over both of the semester, working with writer's block has gone well. I like to block has an homework assignment every week. I get to share with people who are interested on my blog topics all around the world. In the beginning of the school year when we had to do a minimum of 300 word blogs, it sounded too much to type. As the first and second quarter past along, I have gotten up to the average of 400 word blogs. I thought second semester would be essay until second semester was changed by an extent ion of 200 more words. So every week blog posts were now 500 words minimum. As I did a few blogs it was not that bad. My length of writing improved when second semester started. Most of my blogs has 600+ words. Writer's block is a good practice for myself as a writer. It keeps me writing every week especially when we do our lit circle letters. It is great to be introduced with blogger because I do not like to write by hand. Using Google docs is much easier for me to type up my blogs because one, I do not need to write it by hand, two, it is faster to type rather by hand, three, if you make a spelling error it will correct your mistake. When we do quick writes on variety topics like TED talks and pictures, it helped me with my speed of writing. Some of the TED talks were interesting to write about (keep it up Sutherland) like video games, technology, ect. But next year English class might suck for me because I wont be able to use writer's block in class, and I would probably be writing with hand again for in-class essays. It should be okay for me because I have increased the speed of my writing from the quick writes. Also, I won't be able to use blogger or Google docs in school because they are going to block it to prevent people from looking at sexual content. Since this is the last blog post, I would probably use writer's block in the future from big events I'm about to do. This summer I am having my third Vietnamese tournament and I am excited to earn more medals. I would blog about this in the future. I want to know if other people would still update their blogs.


10. Where do you get your ideas for blog post topics? What inspires you to write?

This semester, I get all my blog post topics from events I went to, from watching TV, school,family,friends and martial arts. Like when I went to a Vietnamese New Years festival in San Jose (find out more here). It is my favorite time of the year because you receive lucky money in red envelopes. This year was the year of the tiger and last year was special because it was the year of the golden pig which comes like every 7 years. You get to play a Vietnamese gambling game with out getting caught because it is a Vietnamese tradition and cops can not do anything about it. I like to blog about what I do and the things I know I will do in the future. Like when I know I am going to have a martial arts tournament ahead of time I would blog about that, and it helps me figure out what to blog about next, instead of worrying about what to blog next. What inspires me to write about my topics are blogging about what I like to do. Some of these topics I blog about tells people what I like to do and subjects I like to do. Writer's block show people some perspective of what activity I currently do in daily life. For example, I love to snowboard, spend time with family, I take martial arts ect.