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My Top 5 Favorite Slanted Rays Blog Posts

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Hello, friends far and wide!

As of today, I have published 42 blog posts on Slanted Rays! Since 42 blog posts is a lot for the casual blog reader to sift through, I thought that I would make a short list of five of my favorite blog posts.

  1. One of the Hardest Days of My Life features a story about how terrible my first full day of study abroad was. Much to my surprise, this post (along with The Grouchiest Blog Post) has been one of the most popular stories that I have posted to this blog. 
  2. Sniffling in the City discusses being sick in Paris, some harrowing metro experiences, persistent guilt, and some of the happier moments of my study abroad. This post, more than any of the cheerful posts that I wrote while I study abroad, reminds me of what my study abroad experience was like. 
  3. Soft, Pliable, and Plush: A Journaling Retrospective is a post that I really enjoyed writing, and that I wish more people would read. I went through a journal from my senior year in high school and shared some truly humiliating quotes.
  4. Tarot Reflections from the Yurts of MFC features just that: a few of my daily tarot reflections from when I was at camp. I think that it paints an accurate picture of what being a camp counselor has been like for me. 
  5. A Blast from the Past: My Third-Grade Memory Book is one of the most time-consuming posts that I have put together. From choosing which stories to include, to scanning, transcribing, and writing commentary on the stories, creating this post was truly a time-consuming and worthwhile endeavour. 
I hope that you enjoy discovering/rediscovering/entirely ignoring these blog posts! I recently started a new blog-specific Twitter account. Twitter users can follow me @SlantedRays. 

Until next time,
Lydia
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