2.56 pm, january 10th, my blog has just been born. Not so pretty right now but I give it some time to flourish. It’s my second blog but my first one in english (my apologies for any mistakes). My first one was neither a pinky “I’m twelve years old and here is my life, I love the Spice girls”, nor an academic blog. It was a “blogtrotter’s blog”. I actually travelled through six european cities for a summer and wrote about them for a swiss weekly magazine. Everyday I had to find out interesting facts or people to talk about and entertain my readers. It was not easy but I loved it. This experience combined my different interests in life; traveling, speaking other languages, meeting people and exploring their lives and writing.
After that summer I wanted to be a journalist so I wrote articles for that same magazine and had a few experiences at the radio station of my university and then in a regional radio station. I also tried to travel a lot and learn new languages. Therefore I spent eight months in Argentina (where my mother comes from) and a few months in England and in Germany. Then I started to study political science in Lausanne (a swiss french city close to Geneva) and I admit I really like it. The more I study the less I want to be a journalist. I’ve been brainwashed by academic thinking and the necessity to prove any single sentence I write. This has become hard to do as a journalist, at least in Switzerland, because there is no money anymore to investigate for months. This,combined to my everlasting love for social justice leads me to think that I should be a lawyer.I might be wrong, we’ll see. That’s why, after I graduate this summer I will start a new degree in law.
I hope that my english level won’t be an obstacle to share interesting (or less interesting) thoughts about democracy with you and I am really enthusiast to bring up this second blog. Oh, and by the way, I love cookies and skiing! (My life is a permanent quest for the perfect soft but not too soft, crunchy but not too crunchy cookie, any help is appreciated)