My suggestions..that's just a little part of me!

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The first blog I undoubtedly suggest you to visit is about sushi.
The url is: http://sushiday.com/
I fell in love with Japanese food during my Erasmus, and I want you to discover the originality and ethnicity of this cuisine as well. I hadn’t even tried to eat sushi, but Barcelona is full of Japanese restaurants, and above all of Japanese buffets, where you can eat whatever you want paying a fix, that I couldn’t resist. In practice, I was there eating every week!
The blog is very well organized, colourful and full of catching pictures. There you can find a lot of recipes and above all a well-structured glossary, because it’s obvious that not everybody knows what wasabi or daikon are or what the tools you need are. People can share comments, suggestions, tips and even recipes. Japanese cusine is quite a new fashion here in Europe, so I think it’s necessary improving your knowledge and practice sharing whatever you know through a blog with other people who have the same interest.

The second blog I invite you to have a look to is about the strangest places in the world.
The url is: http://mystic-places.blogspot.com/
I’ve always been attracted by mystery, myths, gothic and paranormal. It’s sound a little bit weird but I’m sure that more or less everyone once in her life has asked whether Ufos really exist, what happened exactly to Atlantis, or who built the pyramids or those strange statues in the Easter Islands. Through this blog people try to explain the possible (and even the impossible!), sharing ideas, anecdotes and evidences. I hope that here you could find some of the answers.
The background of the blog is obviously total black, as to introduce you to this dark side of reality, but I have to assure you that there are very clear and scientific explanations.

To sum up I can say that the language used by bloggers is colloquial and informal, as they were all friends. But they never fall into rudeness; on the contrary they behave always in a good way. I think that the blogsphere besides being a place where you can share opinions, it’s a place where you can always learn something and for this reason there is no room for impolite people.
The idea of sharing all that we know and post it in our blog is supported by the use of links. Every blog has its part reserved to links, that are a series of blogs connected to yours that deal with the same topic. This allows you to surf and immerge you totally in the topic you want, to meet people with your own interests and above all to learn and compare what you already know!

Hope you’ll enjoy visiting my blogs!
See you!
Giovanna

Two weeks of blogging!

Two weeks blogging..a passion that could last forever! As a matter of fact updating a blog is more or less like writing a personal diary. I say “more or less”, because there are different types of diaries, the secret one and the one which works as a kind of agenda. I think the blog we are going to create will work like the second one. Obviously you won’t write here your personal feelings you would confess only to your secret diary and which only those papers would protect forever (remember to keep it away from your curious sister, if you have one!), but surely it gives you the possibility to share your passions, your opinions, your thoughts, your tips and impressions with other bloggers.

Owning a blog not only allows you to share everything you want the others to know, but even to learn always something new from the others bloggers, who will post you their comments and above all by visiting their blogs. I assure you that the blogsphere is really wide, so it’s quite impossible not to find someone who like you has your own interests and who could teach you something new.

As far as the theme of “learning” is concerned, I’m absolutely sure that the idea to create our own blogs and the possibility to receive comments and suggestions from the other peers will improve a lot our fluency and our skills in English. What the others have to teach is so vaste that we will surely increase our packet of knowledge, with new words, expressions, slangs and whatever.

Welcome!

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Hi everyone!
I’m Giovanna and I will be one of your peers during this “bloggingenglish” year together.
I posted this photo, which represents the façade of Casa Battlò that is for me the most resounding work built by Antonì Gaudi in Barcelona.
I’ve just come back from an intense year studying in this wonderful city thanks to the Erasmus program and I still miss its colours, its people, its perfumes, its sun and its dynamic and cosmopolitan life.
Actually I came back two months ago, but it seems to me like I had never left it.
It has been such a magic and fairy experience (like the façade of this house is!!!), that surely I will bring into my heart forever.

http://www.turistipercaso.it/
http://www.barcelonaturisme.com/
http://it.youtube.com/

I add these three useful websites. Actually only the first two are useful in my opinion; the third is just to have fun, but sometimes also to learn something. Do you know that Berkley decided to put some of its lectures in the net, and you can watch them through You Tube?

The first one is indispensable for those of you who are preparing a journey. It works like a forum, where a lot of people who love travelling are ready to provide you advice and information even about the most hidden place of the earth. Whenever I have to leave, I always have a look at this link. I’m sure I will discover something it will turn out necessary.

The second one was essential for my life in Barcelona and I’m sure it may be essential even for those of you who are going to visit that city. You can find all the information you need. From what you can visit to what you have absolutely to eat, from where you might go dancing to what you have to buy.

The third one it’s just for the free moments, when you just lay on the sofa doing anything. This is the right moment (instead of sleeping!) to have a look at what happens around you and miles from you, and why not, also to learn English. Why do not try to “attend” a lecture of Berkley?