Our
blogging adventure has at last come to a close for this semester. The New Year
arrives and weekly habitual actions find themselves replaced by other, less
desirable things. However, the AP English teacher decided to make the weekly
action of blogging “go out with a bang.” All the AP English students know of
our teacher’s dedication towards the sports world. Therefore, I think her
students can all agree that ESPN’s top ten sports plays of 2012 inspired her
with the idea of this next blog post. Why not take the coolest moments of our
blogging adventure and compile them all into one paragraph? Genius. I look
forward to reading this week’s list of blogs because it will parallel watching
a highlight film of our class’s greatest works. So, without further ado, I take
pleasure in sharing my own top features from my blog. A couple of blogs battled
for the position of the “Most Well-Written Blog Award.” However, “The
Surprisingly Dreadful Day” came out on top for a variety of reasons. To begin
with, the blog catches the reader’s attention with a surprisingly ironic
statement. I then continued to write about a small anecdote that happened in
English class at the beginning of the second quarter, relatable to all my
readers and containing a touch of humor to keep one’s focus. I proceed to
transition to a light-hearted mood to a more serious topic of answering the
question: why does a leader emerge within a pair of people? The blog analyzes
the “Second Bakery Attack” to solve such a question in a very coherent manner if
I say so myself. This blog also found its way onto the AP English Blogger Show,
invoking pride towards this short paragraph. Next, we move on to the “Most
Interesting Blog Award.” Again we had a war between posts to make it to the
podium but only one prevailed: “Ernie Should Have Confided in Bert.” I believe
this post proved my most intriguing piece of writing because it shared with my
audience a lot about myself as a person. Looking back on it now, I think that
after a summer of reading other’s blogs and commenting with one another, this
paragraph deemed the breakpoint in my ability to feel comfortable with my
blogging. Therefore one can understand why I find this post most interesting; I
could not believe I voiced such strong opinions and disrespectfulness to my
classmates and on the web. For example, I informed my peers of my fearfulness
of finding myself in a situation necessitating small talk. Finally, Claire
Kampman won the award for “Favorite Comment Award.” Let me share with the
audience a snippet of her reply: “Competition drives success, and losing builds
character.” I absolutely love this quote because I could not agree with it
more. Competition drives the ways of the world and promotes hard work as well
as entertainment. Thank you Claire for your enlightenment to my blog.