The Beginning

Hey,

I don't have a clue as to how to start these blog things. I just decided it is time for me to practice my English writing skills at least once a week. Whether this is the best way of doing it, I don't know.

Anyway, let me introduce myself. My name is Taija and I'm from Finland. I'd like to become an author someday, much like David Gemmell and Jacqueline Carey; the authors I idolize. English language is my passion in every form and has been from when I was but a child. It is an infatuation or should I say love affair that has lasted all the way to this very day and one that will go on until the day I die.

It's 9.43 in the morning on a rather gloomy Tuesday morning and I'm going to be late from class. Why do I know this in advance? Well, school started at 8 and I already missed the multi-culture lectures and these Swedish lessons do not tempt me all that much. Probably because I haven't yet learnt anything new from them. Also, frankly put, I'm exhausted. I don't know why exactly. Just that I am. Likely it is because I have an awful week ahead; two exams and I cannot do badly in either if I wish to have a good chance at getting a slot from the University of Vaasa.

We'll see what I'll end up writing about.... I did always think of blogging like writing a public diary. Anyways......... I chose to name mine Waylander in honour of David Gemmell, who died some years ago. It is also for the unique meaning it carries as it seeks to mean something like a stranger, foreigner and yet I always imagined it more into the "wanderer" meaning. However, by the looks of it the word is Gemmell's own creation and is probably rooted from the word "waylay", where instead of making it the noun "waylayer" Mr. Gemmell went for Waylander.

What else?  Well, I spend my days either reading heroic fantasy, writing things, playing League of Legends or reading to exams. I do try to go to gym every week but it is easier said than done. :3