100.

Believe it or not, this is my 100th post on CheersGalway.  So I thought I would take a step back from describing my daily life just once for a brief reflection.

When I first started writing it, I often had trouble beginning.  I realized that I needed to come up with answers to the questions: Why should people read this? Why should they care?  Well now that I’m on post #100, I think I have an answer.  I hope that people realize that as much as this semester was about me, I genuinely would not have been able to do this without everyone important in my life right behind me. In many ways, every experience I’ve had is a reflection of you. (Yes, you! You wonderful fabulous reader, you.)  I have been able to describe to you my travels, experiences, triumphs, upsets, and love for the beautiful place I’ve called home since January.  As I got into the routine of blogging every day, I began to carry my blog (meaning again, you reader people) with me in the back of my mind.  Okay so I just had this really incredible experience.  How can I convey that to other people through my writing?

Sometimes this means providing long-winded descriptions. My mum can testify with evidence of my book summaries from a young age.  Brevity is not my forte.  Sometimes it means including conversations with people (parts of which were said only in my own head) that I found particularly memorable.  Sometimes it means sharing even the moments that may seem mundane on the outside, but which I found touching or funny.

More than ever, my passion for the written word is ignited in this blog.  I am a writer. I have been since about second grade when twelve sentence stories seemed like novels. And now I kind of feel like I have it in me to write a real novel some day, which is pretty cool.

Cheers for now ♣