Introduction to My Blog

I've tried writing this post over three times now. I'm not sure why of all things I've had to write recently this is what I'm struggling with, but hey presto here I am, with a blog ready to go and no introductory post to put on it.
I figured a pretty solid way of introducing this blog would be to introduce myself. So hi world, my name is Shannara, I am a year 11 student in high school in New Zealand, and I am beginning a blog. This blog will likely be a mixture of personal tales, educational posts (just because I love teaching myself new things) and articles/essays I'll write about opinions I have on current events in New Zealand and around the world.
 

For a while I've toyed over the idea of beginning a blog. I've always liked the idea of it; it's a way to get myself writing again, and an easy, effective way to voice my opinions on a platform where people might just listen. But I never really seriously decided when or how I would create my blog until recently at a university expo at my school. STORY TIME
 

Throughout my life I've swapped ideas numerous times about my dream career, with these ideas ranging from everything from a ballerina to a script writer. However recently, after having dismissed the career option for years, I decided that I should like to become a journalist. My reasons for this being that I can write as part of my job, work in the media, have a career which changes day to day, and I won't have to be stuck in an office 40 hours a week. It ticks pretty much all my boxes, so as of right now it seems like a pretty decent option.
 

At the university expo at my school, I got talking to a man representing one of the universities (I cannot remember which one now) about journalism courses they offered. The man suggested other universities I would be better off trying, but left me with one bit of advice: If you want to be a good prospect for a university course, put yourself out there. I hadn't even begun thinking about looking like a good prospect for universities using anything other than my grades, so when he suggested I start a blog or offer to write for my local paper it was like he was literally my god sent blessing from heaven. I honestly can't thank him enough for finally motivating me enough to pick myself up and actually DO something with my life.
 

So here I am. Who knows how this blog is going to go or if I'm even going to remember to write in it regularly. To begin with I'll try post at least once a week and we'll see where we go from there.
 

I think for my first real post I'm going to talk about an event which happened in 1961, known to most as the Bear Mountain Picnic Disaster. I'm interested in talking about this event in particular because at the beginning of this year my history class was given an assignment to research about this event. There is virtually NOTHING about it online. It was only after hours of research and some trawling through a Bob Marley fan page did I find a snippet of information which led me to the answers I sought. That's 2 hours of my life I'll never get back.
 

I'll try get that up sometime in the next week. If you've read this far thank you, and feel free to subscribe / follow / whatever it is people do on this website.

Until next time :)

-SH