Was it just me, or did 2011 seem like it lacked holiday spirit? Maybe it was the snow, maybe it was people being too busy… but either way, I loved 2011. A lot of things happened around the year, but most of all it was the end of my Grade 12 year and the start of university life. And let me tell you: you’ll love university. I still don’t know why teachers are frightening you. As long as you didn’t slack off in high school, university shouldn’t be a huge problem for you!
On another note, 2011 has also been the year when I first started posting for Youth Are Awesome. It’s been a busy year for everyone, but YAA has definitely made my life more interesting. I have volunteered for Youth Central for most of my junior high and senior high life, so I was really happy that I could still volunteer for them in university. YAA is just special like that! Blogging is simply a great way to share things, and YAA is way better than those Tumblr blogs who live on re-blogging other people’s posts. How unoriginal; it takes time to re-blog, but it takes talent to blog.
If you haven’t noticed, I’m one of those sarcastic and sorta-cynical writers. Naturally you’d think I act like that in everyday life, but in actuality I still feel like a kid who has a hint of cynicism in her. Anyways, I think the best way to sum up my YAA experience is to highlight my favorite posts from the featured authors of this wonderful blog.
Lisa, aka “Mangomaru” has written a lot about the fine arts in Calgary! I especially loved her Video Games Live post, because I’m a VGL fan myself.
Ali is another fellow nerd around this site, and I love his posts about current events and videos of the day; he just has this flare in his writing that doesn’t bore me! His most notable post is probably Windows 7- Tips and Tricks, but I really liked his common fallacies post (they were very useful to me)!
Dhruv is also a blogger who does videos of the day as well as excellent reviews on movies, old-time TV shows and books! It’s hard to pick just one review that I fave, so I’m just going to post some shameless advertising about the Youth by Youth Cinema Competition!
MJ is a really cool blogger who simply writes about cool stuff! Her Men vs Women post is really intriguing, and you can read the several comments on this post (which is also a great read).
Vicky also has cool posts from reviews to guides and just overall highlights about stuff. I’m going to pick her scholarship guide because it’s pretty darn useful for students!
Sarena, one of our Bloggers of the Month, has written beautiful poems as well as photos and videos of the day and reviews! I really like her turtle picture (I love me some turtles) and her compilation of Albus Dumbledore’s words of wisdom.
Bill, a blogger who has super interesting posts and also a Blogger of the Month, has something in common with me. Writing about Stampede food! It’s hard to sum up what he posts–just about anything I suppose. I do like his post about marketing because I never realized the effect of minimalism but his True Wonders of Canada post is definitely the cherry on top!
Syed has great taste when finding pictures, videos and websites of the day! His post on the next 10 years of inventions is a great read when you’re curious about what the future holds.
Sheliza, a super cool blogger who introduced me to WeTopia and Games for Change with her post, has written tons of stuff about Calgary and volunteering! Her most recent post about future jobs has given me some hope going into the competitive field of Computer Science, which is a huge relief when you’re going to be a student in debt.
So then, what about me? Well, my favorite posts to write are whenever I’m poking fun at Disney and Facebook; just anything to entertain you guys. So what have been your favorite posts from the awesome YAA team? Brownie Bonus points for those who comment about mine! To celebrate this milestone of 2,000 posts, my next post will be dedicated to a random commenter on this blog post; so shout out any requests and I’ll try to do them. If you give me suggestions on how to improve, what to write about, or anything along the lines of “me” (I know, so humble), then I will take the advice and use it for future posts.