We welcome Ingrid to Italy. Ingrid left Brussels and moved today to San Vito di Cadore*, at the heart of the Dolomites.
Do you remember the sweet Iranian-French in my office that speaks Italian with a funny roman accent? (click here if you don’t remember her).
Well, today she has joint our Blog as an ‘official follower’.
A warm welcome to Mehry!
Les M&M’s welcome Deborah (aka Projecto Pupunha or Debrinhah) among their ‘official’ followers.
Deborah, an old friend from the times in DC who then moved to Brazil and is now in Nicaragua, has been one of the most active followers of our Blog recently. And today she officially joined our small community.
Thank-you Deb for staying in touch with us even from far away. And for keeping our Blog alive!
Bem vinda!
(Ps: now that you are an official follower, do add a picture on your follower profile J)
Les M&M’s welcome Alejandro and Emily among their Blog’s ‘official followers’. Welcome!
Alejandro, an old friend from our times in Washington, a Mexican who has now moved to Argentina (no, it’s not an oxymoron). A dark hero: gloomy outside, warm-hearted inside, he believes in true friendships and good cervesas. Lawyer, he tried to redeem himself by putting his skills at the service of development cooperation. But nobody truly believes his conversion: he works for the World Bank!
Emily, Chino-French, charming and seductive, an old schoolmate of Mathilde who has now happily moved to Singapore. Soon-to-be mum, we take this opportunity to wish her all the best!
(Btw, do add a picture on your ‘follower’ profile J)
Les M&M’s welcome Silvia, Claudio and Henri among their ‘official followers’.
All hail to you - and keep on following us!
(Ps: Claudio, Martin, Brice, Laura, and Hu80: do add a picture on your ‘follower’ profile J )
Seven months and 136 posts ago we started this Blog, initially as something absolutely temporary. Basically we wanted a space where we could easily upload pictures and other stuff from our wedding, and to which we could redirect people without the burden of communicating individually with everyone. As we were not technologically proficient enough to design our own website, we identified the blog as the easiest solution.
In time, the Blog changed a bit its function, and from a virtual archive, it became more and more a sort of virtual diary, or, if you prefer, a common mailing list: a space where we could collect and share our daily stories, our thoughts and reflections, and - by doing this - keep updated and keep in contact with our families and with the friends spread around the world. After hours sit in front of a computer in fact, we didn’t always have the will (and the strength) to spend additional time writing emails telling the same things to different people. And at the same time, time difference did not always make easy to simply chat over the phone.
Anyway, to make it brief, in the past months writing a blog has become a nice hobby, and often an opportunity to reflect on things and details that otherwise would easily pass away and be forgotten (a special thanks to Emanuele for his encouragement to start first, and to persist later).
Despite my initial enthusiasm however, I recently lost a bit my motivation as - not receiving many feedbacks* - I had the feeling I was writing more for myself than for the others - and that therefore the main purpose of the Blog got somehow lost**.
However, people hurried to reassure me: “Even if we don’t leave comments on your Blog, we do read it”.
Truth or adulation?
We decided then to set a small program to count the number of visits on our site. Don’t worry, your anonymity will be preserved, but at least we will know that, even from far away, you are following us. And this cheers us up!
(*) For those who wished to leave a comment on our Blog but had difficulties in doing it, you’ll find a step-by-step guide on how to post a comment on this blog in one of our past posts: http://www.matteoandmathilde.org/2009/12/how-to-comment-on-our-blog.html
(**) We would like though to thank once more our six ‘official’ followers: Clemence, Mathilde, Laura, Brice, Hu8o, and Pakto
