Introduction

Over the past few weeks I have been struggling thinking about what I should write about next. I chose beauty pageants for my topic because I felt that they were something that I did not understand and had no personal connection to and therefore I could learn a lot about a topic that I knew little about. Well, after writing five blog entries I panicked because I felt like I had nothing left to write about, like I wasn’t making as much progress as I would have liked.

However, a couple of weeks ago I was talking with a friend and the subject of my blog assignment came up. It turns out that she has been competing in beauty pageants since she was eight. This shocked me because I didn’t see her at all as the type of person who would participate in beauty pageants. I didn’t see her as the “type” who would be involved in something that, I’ll have to admit, I see as pretty superficial.

I decided to sit down and talk to her about her experiences with beauty pageants because I thought that this might give me some helpful information to use in my entries and I just wanted to know more about why she did them and what she liked about them.

After talking to my friend I felt completely different about the whole angle that I was approaching the assignment from and I realized that I have a lot more personal connection to the subject than I thought. Since talking to her I have changed the way that I have been investigating my topic and I am seeing beauty pageants from a perspective that I never in a million years thought I would.

So, the following blogs are based around the conversations that I have had with my friend about her pageant days and I think that they are a lot different from my previous blogs that are more based on research that I did online from articles and websites.Over the past few weeks I have been struggling thinking about what I should write about next. I chose beauty pageants for my topic because I felt that they were something that I did not understand and had no personal connection to and therefore I could learn a lot about a topic that I knew little about. Well, after writing five blog entries I panicked because I felt like I had nothing left to write about, like I wasn’t making as much progress as I would have liked.

However, a couple of weeks ago I was talking with a friend and the subject of my blog assignment came up. It turns out that she has been competing in beauty pageants since she was eight. This shocked me because I didn’t see her at all as the type of person who would participate in beauty pageants. I didn’t see her as the “type” who would be involved in something that, I’ll have to admit, I see as pretty superficial.

I decided to sit down and talk to her about her experiences with beauty pageants because I thought that this might give me some helpful information to use in my entries and I just wanted to know more about why she did them and what she liked about them.

After talking to my friend I felt completely different about the whole angle that I was approaching the assignment from and I realized that I have a lot more personal connection to the subject than I thought. Since talking to her I have changed the way that I have been investigating my topic and I am seeing beauty pageants from a perspective that I never in a million years thought I would.

So, the following blogs are based around the conversations that I have had with my friend about her pageant days and I think that they are a lot different from my previous blogs that are more based on research that I did online from articles and websites.