Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken.
— Oscar Wilde.
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My Memories
Grade 8 was the most memorable part of my life. Me and my classmates are always having fun. We do whatever we want, we even played volleyball inside the classroom and we broke the glass experiment accidentally. We even sat at the teacher’s table, throwing books and papers, we messed everything. We are also the most talkative section and the noise from our section went far to the Principal’s office which broke the image of our whole section. When our adviser knew it, she scolded us. We even decided to make a vote “who’s the most talkative in the class”, and the most talkative will be punished. As a punishment, we have to clean the whole classroom and corridor. Sometimes, when our teacher is boring, we decided not to attend the class.
One day, we have this teacher who scolded us for being stubborn. All of our teacher, even the adviser don’t want to teach us. They all wanted to give up. They say, we are the worst section ever even though we are the highest section. We are just talkative but still, we did our best to pass all the home works and projects they have given to us. Our teacher said, we are all smart and respectful, it’s just that we are stubborn. But no matter what happened, we still did our best, we study hard and we passed the Grade 8. That was the most memorable part of being a Grade 8 student.
Introduce Yourself (Example Post)
This is an example post, originally published as part of Blogging University. Enroll in one of our ten programs, and start your blog right.
You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click the “New Post” button, and tell us why you’re here.
Why do this?
- Because it gives new readers context. What are you about? Why should they read your blog?
- Because it will help you focus you own ideas about your blog and what you’d like to do with it.
The post can be short or long, a personal intro to your life or a bloggy mission statement, a manifesto for the future or a simple outline of your the types of things you hope to publish.
To help you get started, here are a few questions:
- Why are you blogging publicly, rather than keeping a personal journal?
- What topics do you think you’ll write about?
- Who would you love to connect with via your blog?
- If you blog successfully throughout the next year, what would you hope to have accomplished?
You’re not locked into any of this; one of the wonderful things about blogs is how they constantly evolve as we learn, grow, and interact with one another — but it’s good to know where and why you started, and articulating your goals may just give you a few other post ideas.
Can’t think how to get started? Just write the first thing that pops into your head. Anne Lamott, author of a book on writing we love, says that you need to give yourself permission to write a “crappy first draft”. Anne makes a great point — just start writing, and worry about editing it later.
When you’re ready to publish, give your post three to five tags that describe your blog’s focus — writing, photography, fiction, parenting, food, cars, movies, sports, whatever. These tags will help others who care about your topics find you in the Reader. Make sure one of the tags is “zerotohero,” so other new bloggers can find you, too.
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