I have given into the world of online blogging and become a so called ‘blogger’! I was once scared of all this online social networking business, but all of a sudden I find myself embracing it whole heartedly. A blog has been described to me as a personal diary, a collaborative space, a place for your thoughts or memos to the world. For me, I prefer to think of it as more than all of those things and as more of a memoir. And to that tone I hope to withhold here on this page.
So where do I start? Where do I begin the huge task of trying to recapture some of the amazing adventures I have had. Do I go back to the start of this adventure, this amazing journey that I embarked on in March 2008? Or do I start from today and start afresh as if it all hadn’t been before? As some of you know, the emails which I composed of my time in Tuscany last summer were affectionately dubbed the ‘the Kimba Chronicles’ by a close friend of mine. But for some season I cant help but want to call this blog page “the Kimba Chronicles Part II” For it feels as if the Kimba Chronicles indeed needs a new chapter as I embark on my second year overseas and I find myself back in Tuscany for a second beautiful summer. But maybe I feel the need to move onto another chapter for more personal reasons than just time and location. For I know that the Kim sitting and writing this to you now, isn’t the same Kim that sat at the same computer last year and started the Kimba Chronicles.
My only dilemma is whether I add the previous Kimba chronicles that have been written and sent to inboxes all around the world should take presence here on this page. For some reason I feel that they should. As a traditionalist, I like to see where I have come from and to learn from what has gone and been before. If nothing else they tell the story of what has been before here in this amazing place that I call home, for these precious months of the year.
The seemingly endless task of trying to keep in contact with all of my friends and family whom I cant be near at the moment is sometimes overwhelming and almost impossible, and with so many friends dotted all over the world now, this blog page seems to make sense; an intimate way for me to keep all of you informed on what is happening in my life and on my day to day journey through this time in my life.
Being back in Tuscany, I seem to have rekindled my love for writing again. Now with the time and patience for it all to pour freely through my fingers onto the keyboard, I once again find myself wanting to write about my day to day happenings and the thoughts that pop into my head. And writing all of these down on this page seems to make my life here feel all the more real; having an audience to write for seems to validate it somehow. I have never been very good at keeping a personal journal; the task of writing into a diary always seemed a chore and the novelty quickly wore off. As life became more familiar and routine, I seemed to rely upon it less and less as a way of documenting my new life here in Tuscany.
So I hope that this page will continue to inspire me to write. But more than anything, I hope that this page can inspire a sense of adventure in all that read it. I hope you can all be inspired to go and find a new place to explore, to find new territory, embrace it and get to understand it intimately like I have been able to. Find the freedom and sense of adventure that comes with travelling and new experiences.
Enjoy…..
