sutherland's second final

    Having a blog throughout this whole year has been a blast for me for many reasons. For one it improved my writing greatly. Before this year started I honestly never had even thought of creating a blog since I didn't see the point writing stuff to share with others. At the beginning of the year when I was told I had to turn in a 300 word blog weekly, I had one thought in my mind, which was that i would never finish it and that it would take up a whole lot of time. As each week went by, my opinion on the blog changed dramatically. I actually started to enjoy the weekly blog post and thought it was a great assignment that also helped me on my writing skill that happen to be in need of improvement. Throughout the year my writing slowly improved and I was becoming surprised with myself. My first blog post had quite a bit of errors but as time progressed and the end of the first semester it started to look more like this. Now that we have reached the end of the school year it looked more like this with an increase to 500 words a week. 

    The topics that are usually on my blog are how good or bad my skating session was that week. I think this is one of the reasons that my blog post don't consume much of my time. Blogging along with quick writes have improved my thinking speed that will help me prepare for the SAT because once they give me the topic I will be able think on my feet and complete the essay in the given time.

    Before we started writing blogs, I thought of writing as the most boring and pointless thing that people have ever came up with that just makes your hand hurt and waste your time to keep you out of trouble. Since we got to picked our topics that we were writing about, it made writing better then I thought it was going to be. I Believe it is the fact you can just write freely with no one telling you what to put on the paper that makes blog writing enjoyable for me. It is much different for me on a topic that I am unfamiliar with because then I am not really inspired to write it besides that fact that I am getting graded for it. Because of the blogs that we had to do weekly, I now see the positive side of write and not just the bad side.

    My weekly activities is were I get most of my weekly blog post topics. The reason that I decided to write about my weekly activities is because it keeps me from getting writers block, which leads to me stressing out on the assignment. The reason that most of my blog post are about skate boarding is because it is the most time consuming thing in my life. There was also a couple blogs about call of duty, and god of war 3 which are both games for the Play Station 3. One of the more random blogs were about Pokemon and Yugioh, which I just randomly felt like writing about for the hell of it.

  

    At first, before all this blogging, the only time that I actually did any write was if it was for school since I would fail if I did not do it, even though I hated it. When sutherland actually told us that it was going prepare us for the writing part of the SAT, it greatly encouraged me to do the the weekly blog post. As time went on, I got the idea that I could save my post and look back at time to see how my skating style when I was just starting out and how greatly I had improved or even inspire young ones to keep skating if they were in to the sport but felt that they sucked at it.

    

    There was two games that I had blogged/review about. The first one was Modern Warfare 2, which was one of the most anticipated games of 2009 and probably one of the top games of that year to. I wanted to write about this game mostly because I believe that the deserve props for creating a great video game like this. Another inspiration   was that I was basically addicted to the game for about a month non stop still I finally got myself out the house to go skate since I was getting hella fat sitting at home all day. The other game that I blogged about was God of War 3, which I believed is one of the most anticipated games that came out this year because the had pushed back it's release date a couple times before the final release date which was earlier this year. I hope to be come a part time video game reviewer to make a couple easy bucks while enjoying the games before they come out. 

   

    As I said before, my english is not the best and my determination to improve it was the strongest inspiration for me completing each of the weekly blog post. One of the main ways that my writing has improved is that I can start writing and brain storming while I do so which is going help me a lot when it comes to the SAT since we are not going know our subject or topic before you take the test. Since I found many mistakes in my blog post while looking over it, I told myself that I would start proof reading my work before I turned it in, but to be honest, I was to lazy to do that which is bad because I am going on to my senior year. But I found that has time progressed, the mistakes migraines started to slim down, which makes me proud of myself cause I have work the whole year with the goal of improving my writing which was reached with the help of Sutherland course.