July, 21st 2007 marked the first female bloggers meeting, or at least the very first I attended. Us gals met in Dulce cafe (I hope I'm saying the name right) at 11am. Me being myself and Bahraini on top of that arrived a few, ok more like 20, minutes late. A lady blogger arrived much later than myself (towards the end really) but with a genuinely good excuse: she came straight from work. I however, was stuffing myself at a breakfast buffet in Veranda. What can I say, old habits die hard...
Ok, back to the meeting; it was quite good! I expected it to be either dreadful or great. Fortunately, it turned out to be the latter. I enjoyed meeting my fellow female bloggers and am even planning to attend the regular one. I hope I remember to. There were some that I really looked forward to meet but din't quite make it. Maybe next time girls, huh? Others, I was pleasantly surprised to find that they are female bloggers. Girl power, yay!
The turn out was good, 8 of us there I think. I met some ladies that I can see myself befriending! I am a sucker for potential! Time flew away and before we knew it 3 hrs passed.
The meeting reaffirmed my belief that I should never judge a book by its cover. Or in this case, never judge a book cover by the its contents. It is amazing how one forms notions of another's appearance and behavior based on their writings. You expect them to be and look a certain way and boom! You meet in person and they are not at all how you thought they would be. It is funny how quick we are to peg someone.
I also decided to read more arabic blogs. I am missing out on some really good blogs.
All in all the ladies were very friendly, funny, interesting and intelligent. A wonderful meeting of minds.
Ladies, here is to all you gals, may we continue to successfully and happily blog away and may friendships blossom out of our experiences.
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7 comments:
Excellent! Well done to the organisers and the attendees.. and thanks GoS for reporting it.
In contrary to some bloggers expectations this meeting was fun, interesting and intelligent :)
Lets do it on montly basis and I am sure that more female bloggers will join us next time.
so glad i managed to attend...
at some point i was losing fate in our youth...
but this gathering brought a lot of energy and happiness...
such fine ladies with beautiful minds...
so lucky we have met...
i see hope and i see light...
keep it up...
i agree with u never judge a book by its cover...
wishing you love :)
cheers...
you know, i've been guilty of doing just that... judging a book by its cover... and i agree... it's not good to do that.
i had such a wonderful time at the meeting. everyone was so nice, intelligent, funny, full of life, open minded... and what thrilled me the most is how the conversation never slowed down.
usually i put myself in the "shy" boat... but i felt so at ease. it's a really nice change.
i can't wait for the next one... gosh.. wouldn't it be great if we had the best blog gatherings of all! ;)
it was wonderful meeting you Gardens of Sand!
Mahmood, thanks a bunch, you know, we wouldn't be here w/o you. You provide us with the platform where we can all share and enjoy eachother's thoughts. You know I dunno if I ever mentioned it but yours was the first blog that I ever came across!
Butterfly: it was a pleasure meeting you and I enjoyed reading your blog. I promise to swing by more often and yes we should have some sort of monthly meetings.
Newme: I did check out your blog. Lovely poetry. Guess what? I still like you, must be something with me huh? Seriously though, like your writing gal, dunno why u think some won't...
Um Naief: I always think I am shy too. I usually get one of these roll eyes in head looks and "you are definately NOT shy!!" I know I said this before, but I really am glad to have met you in person!
Although being the one who joined towards the end of the meeting, I'm still glad I went anyway. It was nice meeting you all, surprising in a way as I knew some of the youoffline, but never knew they were who they were online!
I was really disappointed to have missed it. I would have loved to be there. Maybe next time.
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