Introduction

Hello,

It has been a while since I have written anything. Not for lack of trying. 

I used to sit and write for hours on end about nothing in particular, proud of myself and of the content I had created. But in the last few years I've felt a weight crushing my confidence, holding me back. I didn't think I was good enough anymore. I didn't think anyone would care about my views. To go from being content editor of my university newspaper to not writing at all has astounded me.

I actually have an old wordpress account that I can no longer access - pretendingtospeakFrench - as well as a couple more that I won't mention just yet.

Now, in light of everything that is happening at the moment, both internationally and personally, I would be doing myself some injustice to not write down my thoughts and feelings.

I expect the first few posts to be random as I try to figure out the direction I'd like to take. I wear many hats: 20-something woman, friend, teacher, sister, daughter, girlfriend, writer, poet, protester, Nutella-enthusiast; some of them fit better than others.

Let's see how this turns out.

A.