Check These Out

At the top left of this page you will find three blogs I linked. Here is my brief recap of what is happening. Three students are on an exchange program to Keene College in New Hampshire. They start blogging, talking of similar things happening but from different points of view. On top of being from the UK, they also have an outsiders perspective on our country. I am really enjoying the anthropological/sociological nature of the journals. Plus they also have a Poisonwood Bible or The Sound and the Fury type feel to them, a mutiple narrator story.

The blogs follow Hellen, Emmah, and Sarah. Emmah keeps mashing her words, it sometimes makes me laugh in the midst of reading her pages, like when referring to a school bus she says, "Cheese Bus," and not "Cheese Wagon." Sarah seems to be haphazardly out to do things, or at least puts her page out on her terms, new favorite term is, "wicked cool." Can you blame her? The New England saying did basically launch Jimmy Fallon's career on SNL. Then there is Hellen, or Princess Hellen, as her handle states, she was the first to devote herself to the blog. I would compare Hellen to Darwin's voyage on the HMS Beagle, she is appreciating one culture for what it is, and not judging it... yet.

Both Hellen and Emmah are religious and are struggling with their devotion to God in the New World. Once again, devotion is not the fitting word, they are both quite devoted... maybe struggling with their belief? (Help me define what I'm trying to say.) Sarah is not religious, but she is trying to support her friends in their time of need.

Another fun part to the blogs are the comments. It seems that the three girls have created a system of support for themselves (the blog) and because it is publicly viewed their families have become a web of support, for each of them as well. But the comments are also fun because the girls get called out for spelling american, requests are made for comparison, etc.

All in all its a fun read, so check it out.