To fulfill the second part of this week’s blog challenge tasks we had to have a look at some of the most recommended blogs on Flipboard, decide on one post and comment on that one. Therefore this is what I did:

The first blog I visited was Shelby’s. She wrote a short poem on friendship telling what a real companion should be like. I commented on that announcing how hard it is defining whether a friend you found is a true one or not.

Then I decided to have a look at Ella’s “Let Me Tell You This” week 4 activity where she wrote in form of a poem about all the changes that should be made, all the inequality which exists without any reason. I responded pointing out how hard it is though, to get people to care about others, that there will probably have to be some change in the motivation of people to get anything moving.

Last but not least I was interested in Thunyama’s text about their Thai New Year festival at which they spill each other with water. I thought that that actually was a nice and refreshing habit; however, temperatures in our country might make doing that ourselves at home a little hard, so I guess we’ll just stay with our fireworks!

As last week’s student blogging challenge’s topic was about digital footprints, I decided to google myself or to be more precise my name.

Nearly every result on the first three pages of Google was either about a 22 year old cellist or about some other Sophies I don’t know. When I then continued searching and scrolling through the pages I first found me on page four at the website of Promusica Carinthia in cooperation with which I played twice at a matinée in the Warmbader Hof this spring. My name was mentioned on page 6, too. That time it was about the chemistry competition of Carinthia where I reached the third place. Then on page 9 I was remarked once more by the “Känguru der Mathematik” website telling that I made the fourth place in our province the year 2013. Also the test in the following year were I made the first price was remarked. However, the following 10 pages were empty, no sign of me existing.

Then I typed in my most often used nickname Chickinator and I recognized that already the first image which showed up had been taken by me years ago. I hardly even remembered it even existed, but there it was.

Yet I figure that my digital footprint is rather small which I really appreciate as I don’t want to belong to the group of people being completely translucent. I have nothing to hide, but I think those who want to find out about me should do it face to face and not google and interpret things into the information given that might not be true.

Just after I had started clicking myself through our class and the international student list, I figured out that hardly anybody had anybody else’s blog linked to theirs. When I finally came across Kathryn’s Blog (http://blog.elanco.org/wenrich4kn/) who at least had a class list on her blog, I was really glad that I could continue on our task. There I decided to head on to Frieda’s blog (http://blog.elanco.org/kauffm563/) and, believe me or not, she had some international students linked (!!!), so I proceeded to Dulce’s blog, a Mexican guy. I found out, he also wrote a drabble so I felt like I had to comment on that. It was about his grandpa’s boats randomly situated in the forest. Unfortunately, he didn’t give a reason why…

http://dulce19.edublogs.org/2017/02/03/boat-adventure-100-word-challenge/#comment-28

 

When doing the activity the second time I had more luck, I immediately clicked onto April’s blog (https://aprilonlinep.edublogs.org/) who had many other pupils’ blogs linked to hers. I decided to go for Sophie’s (http://smia.global2.vic.edu.au/) from Australia, as at the very first look I made, I had the impression the sidebar said AUT instead of AUS. She had a very nice blog, nonetheless I had to continue to a further one which I decided should be Darby’s (http://hesdar.global2.vic.edu.au/). It didn’t seem to appealing to me as it such a depressing aura with a dark-grey background, however, I commented on her About Me page, which was mainly about soccer. So I wrote about her interest in international clubs and players, like the Arsenal Gunners or Antoine Griezmann.

http://hesdar.global2.vic.edu.au/about-me/

 

The last time I went through that procedure I started at Maddi’s blog (http://maddisono67.blogspot.co.at/) and continued to Ari’s (http://ari2017.edublogs.org/). Then I decided to have a look at Chloe’s “Learning” (http://chloe2017.edublogs.org/)  where I found a post about her school’s sports day. She said that they did sprinting and that she enjoyed it, which I felt like had to be opposed as I think running without any goal is pointless.

Sports Day 2017