☆☆astro☆☆: photoshop me...beginnings of a mission statement?

I created this blog over the summer because I thought it would be a great place to post musings on pooping. That failed, and my single post was quite explicit. At least I have cool music on my page T.T

But when I started looking at study abroad junk and scholarships, I decided to utilize the internet to further my academic aspirations and pay off student loans. Afterall, it's not really a learning experience unless you write mountains about it.

As part of my Phillips' Ambassadors essay, I wrote that I want to connect Carolina students to the world. A blog will definitely facilitate that process. I plan on posting pictures, video, and other research as I go, so it won't be all neat and pretty. The overall result I'm aiming for is a documentation of my experiences in Korea. As for the video content, I will definitely be posting videos of myself eating Korean food. I will also be in close contact with my adoption agency and hope to develop a relationship with other adoption agencies and nonprofit organizations around Seoul that deal with overseas and domestic adoption. Perhaps I will post a few recorded interviews or conversations with social workers, nurses, etc.

I am trying to figure out the best way to notify peeps about this blog. I intend it to be a thing for *everyone* to view, but my targets are students, educators, and perhaps policy makers (ambitious, I know). Even more specifically, I want adoptees, their families, and their friends to look at this blog!! I don't want people to come here and see a disgusting entry about my summer cleanse and my poorly photoshopped pictures. So when is the best time to notify people...?

The next time I remember to post here, I will probably have a few excerpts from my essays and a better outline of my informal project. And I need to decide what rating this blog has. I'm afraid it might have to be pg-13 or something because I can't express my feelings properly without using coarse language. Maybe I will take Dakwanda's advice and start using a thesaurus. But if I'm going to post real life happenings, then that will most certainly involve alcohol because I love Korean beer... Perhaps having 2 blogs will work?

Ok so now we move to the more interesting part...PHOTOSHOP. I don't know how to use photoshop like it should be used, but I try anyway. Most of my creations are horrendous, but I get by basically because I know a few tricks (liquify), I can read English, and right-click.

And I'm trying to figure out how this whole blogging thing works, so I'm trying out posting pictures. Of course, these photographs will be of myself and maybe a few celeberatories here and there...

Here I am on a lovely rainy day last spring. Since it was cloudy, my pupils dialated quite a bit!