Back to the Blogosphere

Yes, it's true. I'm back at it in the world of blogging. Two years ago I left Austin to study abroad in Dublin and had fantastic visions of regular blogging in my head. I was convinced that I would update all of my friends and family with detailed accounts of all of my adventures. In the week before I left, I spent hours creating a beautiful new website from scratch (alright, more time was spent watching the Olympics, but I did make an effort at a website while plopped in front of the TV for marathon sessions of Phelps-fever). Armed with this great new site and a genuine desire to share my stories, I arrived in Dublin after weeks of travel and was very conscientious about uploading photographs and recording the day-to-day happenings of my life....at least for a couple of weeks. By the end of September, my blog had fallen by the wayside and I can't say I missed it. I quickly decided that I didn't have time to be clever and write interesting stories and the only people who were probably reading the blog were my parents. Sorry mom and dad, but I just could not motivate myself to continue to write when you were the only ones reading it. So that was it. I think that site might still exist somewhere - If you ever run across it, I apologize for it's fairly pathetic content. In terms of a good, consistent blog....it was a total failure.

Why do you care about my past blogging experience? You probably don't. However, I thought that I would lay it all out there up front: I am a bad blogger.

Alright, I said it. Now that it's out there, let me please say that I would love to change this.

Ergo, attempt number 2 at blogging...

This time I'm going on a much bigger adventure: a 2 year move to Ethiopia.

I have a much bigger reason to blog: share the experience I have while helping to serve the people of Ethiopia.

I'm blogging for others as well: to help be a voice for those I encounter who don't have a means to share their story

And I also have (and this may be incredibly wishful thinking) an audience a little bigger than just my mom and dad...granted, I'm putting a lot of emphasis on the LITTLE part of that assertion

So here we go, check in every now and then and see what I'm up to...