Blogs, anyone?

I wrote two blogs for my semester and summer study abroad

http://www.aryuugakuseiat.kansai-gaidai.com/ Kansai Gaidai, Osaka, Japan Spring 2010

http://8wksinhakodate.blogspot.com/ HIF, Hakodate, Hokkaido Summer 2010

If you're thinking of creating a blog, I recommend blogspot.com. It's a stable host (doesn't tell you one day that it's gonna close down). There are alot of features and you can change your url name anytime you want. Blogging is like writing an online journal. I think it's a great way to keep memories of your study abroad experience. You can also share your thoughts and experience with others. I wish I could update my blog more frequently during my stay but was only able to do so during the first few days before school started. But I would blame the infrequent access to the internet for that.

Please post here if you have a blog.

Tags: abroad, blog, study

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Permalink Reply by Michelle (Administrator) on April 4, 2011 at 5:56pm

Great post, Quynh! I'm going to add it to the right column.

Permalink Reply by Renata Tavara on April 7, 2011 at 6:28pm

IIt´s in spanish but hope you could find it useful.

www.simiopinionteinteresa.wordpress.com

Greetings

Permalink Reply by Melissa (Team Member) on April 8, 2011 at 2:03pm

Here's a response we got from Twitter:

harshasharma Apr 07, 6:11pm via Web

@ConnectStateGov biased because I'm a member of the Young Leaders Network but @icdberlin #culturaldiplomacy blog is good to keep an eye on!

Permalink Reply by Buket Ertenu on April 10, 2011 at 3:52am

http://bertenu.blogspot.com

Dear Quynh,

I read your blog posts with great pleasure:)Thanks for your effort.I also have a blog please you also check it:)I 'll surely need your advice on my blog cause I'm just learning:)

Looking forward to your more posts on your blog:)))

All the best,

Buket.

Permalink Reply by Quynh Phan on April 12, 2011 at 8:57pm

Thank you everyone for replying! I'm sorry for the replying so late. I was writing the last chapter of my thesis and busy preparing for the defense (which I had just 3 hours ago - and to tell you the good news I have successfully defended my thesis).

@Buket: Thank you for replying on my Kansai Gaidai blog. I will definitely check out your blog. At a glance I think it looks great. Keep up the great posts :)

Permalink Reply by Melissa (Team Member) on April 13, 2011 at 4:25pm

Congratulations!! That's great news, thanks for sharing. So proud of all of your hard work, and happy to see that you still make time to connect with us here.

Permalink Reply by Yuriy K on April 28, 2011 at 12:07pm

My friend wrote this blog about her semester in Cairo:

http://asian-egyptian.blogspot.com/

Permalink Reply by Quynh Phan on April 28, 2011 at 1:10pm

Thanks for sharing, Yuriy. I'll be sure to check it out :)

Permalink Reply by Margaret L. Frank on May 9, 2011 at 10:28am

Both my daughter and I wrote blogs while in India last year. Unfortunately, we slowed way down when we had no internet. Here's a link to mine:

http://indiafulbright2010.blogspot.com/

There is a link in the upper right to my daughter's blog.

Permalink Reply by Quynh Phan on May 13, 2011 at 2:26pm

Thanks for the link, Margaret!

Permalink Reply by Melissa (Team Member) on May 11, 2011 at 2:48pm

Hey everyone - here's another great blog that was recommended by the folks over with the Gilman Scholarship: http://ireneindeutschland.tumblr.com/

It's by Irene, an undergrad who is spending the summer in Berlin. I think it's neat that it's a Tumblr blog instead of the usual Blogspot that you see. Gives it a very different aesthetic.

Blogs, anyone?

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