Blog Brag: Cristina Burgos
Cristina Burgos – Life in Spanglish
http://lifeinspanglish.wordpress.com
What is your blog about:
Life In Spanglish is about being bilingual in English and Spanish and having it manifest in all aspects of your lifestyle, culture, mindset, vocabulary. As one of the 8 million (more or less) Latinos living in Los Angeles, I see the way Spanish and English mesh into this fabulous and interesting new experience everyday. Some of the topics I like to write about are LA happenings, news & media (especially TV), marketing, art & photography, food, and of course both languages. Anything that has to do with Hispanics as a demographic force in the US and just random stuff that I find interesting is a topic for the blog.
What motivated you to do your blog?
In April 2009, like many people, I was suddenly unemployed. So honestly, it was the recession and time on my hands that made me create a blog. But more than this, it was the desire to have an outlet for expressing opinions (and rants!) and showing some of the pictures I take on a daily or weekly basis. Since I’ve always spoken “spanglish” and that is how I communicate with mostly everybody I know in LA, this was the natural subject for me to explore. My four loyal readers kept bugging me if I didn’t post anything for a few days, so this pushed me to keep blogging and keep looking for things to write about. I am now working again, thank God, and I now have more than four readers, which is also very nice for the ego.
What do you offer your visitors to your blog? What do you want your visitors to take with them when they leave your blog?
The challenge for me is to come up with interesting bits of information and a real opinion as an alternative to what you may see/read/watch on the media, news, etc. I want to offer an honest voice and always make it entertaining. “Engage” is the magic word nowadays, but it is really what we all strive for. Hopefully readers can connect with the blog and ultimately want to keep reading, coming back for more and inspiring them to leave a comment here and there. And maybe someday all the “Spanglishers” would like to meet and go get a “cafecito” someplace to practice our Spanglish!
THANK YOU!!
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