I don’t know how to even start. I never
thought it will be so emotional, but when I decided to write this post I couldn’t
get any sleep until 4 am…
I have to admit I have been struggling with
my English blog for quite some time and I considered giving it up when I came back from Cornwall in October last year. To write a post in English takes more effort
and time than in my native language. Recently I discovered that to keep my
English blog going I have to sacrifice something else, something very valuable –
quite a lot of my spare time. I have at least a dozen of books waiting to be
read and I want to limit the time I spend in the front of the laptop. I also need to
move more; recently I gave up a part of my life that was very important to me –
the exercise routine. I also have a culinary column in one of the Polish
internet magazines and recently I looked back at my work published in the last 3 months –
I should have done so much better, pay more attention to text and photographs
and who is to blame is me - being overworked and try to do too many things at
once.
Also and probably more importantly I
realised that English will never be language that will allow me to express in
100%. People say I am intelligent, bright and have good and specific sense of
humour (hence my endless love for Monty Python) and my writing skills in my
native language are pretty good. My personality shines through my stories. This
is not happening and I don’t think will happen soon in my posts written in
English. My workplace is certainly not a good place to improve my writing skills
– I work with numbers (and as probably most of you – I have to work to pay my
bills). I tried to do GCSE few years ago, but after about 6 weeks I was the
only one of the whole group (in which, funnily enough, I was the only
foreigner!) who was willing to carry on with this course. Other students just gave up and
local authorities had to cancel the night class and never came back to the idea
of organizing another one. Unfortunately
where I live there is no other option, except perhaps private one-to-one
lessons that are pretty expensive.
It certainly has been an amazing journey for
nearly three years (anniversary on Valentine’s Day) and I would like to thank
all of you who expressed their support for what I was doing here. For kind
comments about the recipes, feedback about how you liked some of my dishes or
the photographs. For me it is a sad day but in some way this could be very
liberating and can lead me to something more exciting in my life. Who knows?
So thanks again, very warm wishes to
everybody who visited this blog and enjoyed it.
Lots of love,
Karolina
Karolina
xxx
P.S. I would like to express that I am aiming
to improve my photographs and if you feel that I am right person to prepare an
article about Polish or any recipes or you need photographs for your articles,
food styling or perhaps just need a posters for your private kitchen, tea room
please let me know – I am very keen to work in food related industry and I hope
giving up English blog will give me more time and energy to i.e. build up my portfolio. Maybe even to open a
secret tea room, or perhaps to help others to organize dinner parties? Please,
please do not hesitate to contact me if you need any form of help or food/recipe writing/photography
work to be done for you.
Karolina
karolina.food.blog@gmail.com
That is sad. Interesting recipes and some of the most beautifully prepared photographs I have seen on ANY food blog.
ReplyDeleteI think you were to concerned about your English. But I understand about being busy. I have so many plans but can't do half the things I want to do (either online or in real life).