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My Fitness Hobbies

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Today I am answering a writing prompt but also sharing ways that I like to exercise. If you had asked me a few years ago about fun ways to exercise I would say there are none lol. I was very much not a fitness person at all growing up, PE was my worst subject because I could not find joy in cross-country running or hockey and still don’t so yeah. Fitness was just not something for me.

But one day my friends and I were having a sleepover and one of them said she had always wanted to try pole dancing and I liked the sound of that. So we decided to Google and sure enough there was a pole studio in town that we could go to and so we signed up on a whim.

Thinking back to those early days I remember I was nervous but I was glad I had a friend with me to get over the initial awkwardness. I think it also helped that our teacher was a first time teacher too so we could kind of grow with him. It definitely wasn’t easy in the beginning, as I had no body strength whatsoever but I was motivated to continue working on it. I knew from the first class this would be something I was going to stick at.

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Why I Blog

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I saw these prompts on WordPress when I started getting back into blogging earlier this year and I have yet to answer one. I think it’s good to check them out for inspiration. And it’s been a while since I made a blog post so here we are.

I started blogging in 2007? I was 10 years old and I discovered the blog tab on my Bebo page and I didn’t know what it was. I remember asking someone in my family and they told me blogging was like talking about your life. So one day I sat down to write my first blog. Obviously memories change and are often romanticised but what I remember was I started blogging quite regularly. I think maybe every month or so for as long as I had my Bebo account. I guess it was short-lived because soon I was on Facebook and there were no blogs on Facebook pages.

But originally I started blogging because it was kind of my foray into journaling, it was just on a public platform. Don’t ask me what possessed me to start telling people about my life on Bebo – like I can’t even remember what I talked about at the time. School? My friends? I don’t know I just know I probably took it too seriously.

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