Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Building walls

One of the nice things for me about moving to Vietnam has been this blog.  By writing it, I've created a record of a lot of the interesting things I've done, and having the blog to update has given me a reason to go and sort through photos, and an audience to tell stories to.

But the problem with being a public blog is that it's PUBLIC.  The internet is goddamned accessible.  And I'm a little shy.

When I first started writing, I thought nobody was reading it at all apart from a few friends and family. Those early posts had a really different feel to the later ones - partially because I was writing about all the things that were hard and horrible as well as the things that were amazing and fun.

But once I got here to Vietnam, and more and more people I barely knew were reading, I began to feel less and less confident about what I felt I should say online. I want to tell people back home about the people here, but I don't want to offend or exploit people by saying things about them publicly.

I want to talk about my job and my volunteer work - but I REALLY don't want to do that in a public forum. 

So as I've integrated more and more with life in Vietnam, and interacted more and more with people, I've found that what I can confidently say has dwindled. There have been fewer and fewer posts, and now, I am barely writing at all.

But I really miss it!  I want to tell you all about the cool stuff I'm doing! So I have decided to limit the audience.  I love getting your comments and I love having the opportunity to share this amazing life with you.

If you want to keep reading, please drop me a line and I'll add you to the blog. There will be more posts, but you will have to log in to read them from now on. I hope that by having this extra layer of privacy, I'll feel more confident about writing more frequently.

And thanks to everyone who has been reading!  I really appreciate your support!




2 comments:

  1. Please add me to the blog. I'm a Chinese/Vietnamese American that was born in Saigon but currently live in Atlanta, Georgia. I found your blog a while ago via another blog, Head (South)East. I thoroughly enjoy reading blogs like yours about your experience in Vietnam. I haven't found anything that you wrote to be offensive. It's merely your experience in a foreign country. Listen, I'm from Vietnam and sometimes I don't even get these people. LOL! Anyway, you should feel confident in your writing because I'm sure there are more people out there that look forward to reading it.

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  2. Hi Dragonheart
    Thanks for the lovely comment. All I need to add you to the blog is your email address. You can email it to me at katrina.lawson AT gmail.com.

    I hope you keep reading!
    Katrina

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