B-Side Blog - The Beginning
Hello! I'm Bea and from today you can find me in a hammock at the Baia Mare Youth Centre.
I can finally say that summer is on for me. You might think that this means that from now on I'll just sit around, but it's quite the opposite. If you look closely at the picture below you'll see a specimen of the volunteer and PR coordinator kind at DEIS working away on all sorts of posts.
It is finally time for something that I've been preparing for a while, but I just didn't feel that I could dedicate myself in that direction. But now that school's out forever, it's time to find something else to fill my free time (you should already know that volunteering is my full-time 'job'). Hereby I invite you to my new blog.
And now, because I can't leave this post to be this short, I want to tell you a bit about the blog and its story.
For some time, I've been scared that one day Facebook will go crazy and I'll lose all my posts. You all saw how Facebook and Instagram crashed yesterday, and I also have friends whose accounts were closed because of some system errors, so my fear is probably pretty normal. I had no idea how to start a blog where to safely store my posts and, on top of that, I don't think I would've had time to work on it as I'm hoping to do this summer. However, with a lot of support and help from Victor, B-Side Blog came to be.
Maybe I should tell you about the title too...
On the one hand, B comes from Bea, on the other hand B-Side is the other side of a vinyl record and B-Side can also be read as 'beside'.
Basically, all of these suggest that my posts will always be my own perspective, whether it's me as a young person, volunteer, or student. And somehow it's a promise for myself that I'll never change the way I see things. How do I see things? I'd say it's somewhere between being objective and subjective. I try to find objective and valid evidence to support subjective opinions, and if I don't have objective and valid evidence I'd rather not speak out until I find that evidence.
Now I will leave you with a short text, so you can have a look at B-Side Blog and read some of my older posts that have been buried by time. I'll paste the link here again, so it's easy to find.
Photo by Jeanine Celine
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