For The Oma:

A very broad and short walk-through of how to use my blog. So broad and short that I'm sure I'm forgetting lots of things and probably not clarifying any of this at all... But here it goes.

This is my blog (weB LOG) that I plan on using to keep in touch and chronical all my adventures along the way. At the top of each blog post there's a different color header with the title of each post seperating one post from another - the ones at the top will be the most recent, and the ones at the bottom are the oldest. One day I'll get to making a folder on the right-hand side of the page to look up posts by country, you'll then be able to click on say, Japan, and look at all the posts I've tagged with Japan. If you don't want to do that and would rather all the posts be out as they were written chronologically then just go back to the head page url (http://abroadaboard.blogspot.com/) or just hit your back button.

If you want to post a comment to me in response to a blog posting go to the blog entry (seperated by those headers, so the blog below the header you'd like to write back to me about) and before the next earlier posting there is a smaller colored clickable link that says _ Comments. Some of my comments have 0 Comments written, some have 6 Comments. Click on the Comments link and it will take you to a page that on the right-hand side had a window for you to write me in. It'll probably make you choose some kind of identity, but I don't think you have to have a blog of your own to comment mine. It doesn't matter if you wanna post on a more popular blog, it'll all be saved publicly for all the readers of the blog (and me!) to see.

I'll post up my Semester at Sea e-mail address as soon as I get it since I probably won't be checking my yahoo account all that often.