Hello.

Well, I have randomly decided to start a blog.  How often will I actually write in it? That is to be determined.  My biggest fear is that I will try to sound clever or creative or like some hardcore blogger and then I will look back and says to myself "Why did I write that?"  However, I am willing to take that risk.  Every time that I read an older post, I am not going to be exactly the same person that I was when I composed it, so that feeling is probably inevitable anyways.  

I decided to keep a blog for the following reasons:
1. I was just creeping on some girl's blog that I know from high school.  It was very well written, very sentimental, and very enjoyable to read.  
2. I FINALLY made a follow up post on my blog from Spain, which I finished in May of 2012.  I probably should have wrote one about 10 months ago, but what can you do.
3. In the Advanced Composition class that I am taking this semester, the professor has focused the class on "The Personal Essay" and the personal essayist.  Not only do we read personal essays, but we are required to compose our own as well.  In some sense, a blog is a sort of personal essay I suppose.  

I am not really sure about the direction that I want to take this blog in, so I will leave it open and say any.

My 22nd birthday is four days away.  I am still in denial that I am that old.  I am at the age where Facebook is constantly announcing the newest engagement.  I am at the age where a lot of my friends are, or are soon to be, out in the real world, with real jobs and real responsibilities.  I am going a fifth year at Illinois State, so luckily the "real world" isn't on my mind a lot right now. 

Isn't it funny how they say that you leave college and enter into the "real world."  What is college then, the fake world?  Actually, it sort of is.  Sure, we are on our own, buying our own groceries and managing our own time and money, but issues such as finances, bills, debts and unemployment are of little concern.  What is a concern is that I have absolutely no grasp on figures concerning prices, such as salaries or house payments or car payments or how much a car or a house even costs.  When someone says to me "So and so makes X amount of money" I like to display a neutral expression of shock.  That way if it is a unusually low or an unusually high salary, I am safe either way.

I think that is sufficient for a first blog post.  Although it is the end of March, we have the first snow day that ISU has seen since 2010.  I am angry at this weather and so ready for Spring.

Hasta la próxima vez