Hello!!!

It’s Barbara P, writing to say I’ve now tried this new blog! I have never written on a blog before but I guess there is a first time for everything! I am currently sitting at my work desk wondering what I could write about. I have always kept a kind of diary (although, I don’t like calling it diary…)!! I write everyday for 15 minutes whether it’s before I head off to work or after I come back from late classes at LaSalle College. I usually don’t think about what I will write. I just write about how I feel, what happened during that day, about certain moments or just random things. It kind of helps me in a way because I have been doing this for more than 4 years, and as I flip through my old notebooks, I realize how much I changed and all the things that I’ve accomplished since then on. The reason I started doing this was that I had a teacher in an English class tell all her students to buy a notebook and write everyday for 15 minutes without stopping to think. She always told us: “Just write about anything and if you don’t know what to write about then write “I don’t know what to write about”. And ever since that class, I just kept on buying more notebooks and have already filled up 5 of them! I take my notebook with me on EVERYWHERE! My friends sometimes laugh at me and say: “Why do you still keep a diary”? I keep on telling them and explaining that it’s not a diary! LOL I considered it more like an artifact book…The thing is, it’s kind of therapeutical to say the truth… and the best part is that it’s about me and I know I can write in it what I want, and whenever I want. I don’t know how long I will keep on doing this, but the teacher I had, has been doing it for more then 30 years and says that she still does… She is actually an author for kids right now but I know that she still teaches because every time she writes for the Gazette, she always mentions her students. Alright! Well I must get back to my work, just an hour and a half to go… In the mean time, hope you've got something good to read and interesting things to write about!
Barbara P.