Using Used to Do vs. Be Used to

GentleKid, diary in english? )

I absolutely agree with Irene – a secret is a secret, I’m an introvert and there’s no need for me to open my inner thoughts and feelings to smb even to diary.
Besides I’d prefer to look in the future then remember what has past.

Wow !! im gonna be nostalgic ….i will make diary from now :) 

I used to keep one in high scool, as it was the best part of my life!! I used to write in it everything that happened in school (I didn’t write about the weekends, cause they’re mostly the same and nothing interesting happens on them XD). I think it’s great to keep one, I used to write in it in English, so now I can see how it improved. It’s actually one of the ways to improve your English skills, you learn new words and it seems like you’re talking to someone and telling them what actually happened to you during the day, in English!! so yeah, it’s like you’re practising speaking AND writing.

We can say alot of things in our diary, the happiness, sadness, confusion etc, and one day we can remember and reflect it, when I was elementary school student I kept a journal, but now I don’t write it frequently, maybe just great event in my life , yeah I often laugh when read my childhood diary , there were a lot of funny things happened 

I regret that  I  haven´t kept a journal to keep track of the   most important days  in my life, as feelings,  my trips,  people that I was associated with. or is it that  women are more into keeping a diary ?

Dear Seiyf, you are a good writer, indeed.

Recover soon. My hearty greetings to you and your family.

I wish your journal were full of only good events.

I have never had a journal . When I was younger , I sometimes tried to do it  then I thought that it was a bad idea. Because one day someone could find  it and  understand about my  life more and more… I think everyone remembers all things of his life . According to me,  to have a journal means that you want to share your feelings and problems with someone or you hope in the future someone find your secret book.

I never kept a journal.I prefer taking pictures.It,s better refresh my memory

about past events.

I kept a journal when I was younger. I found it recently, and it was so interestingly to read it.

I started keeping a journal in English two weeks ago. It helps me to improve my English and to learn to express my thoughts. I think it’s great!

i never kept a journal until today but maybe i do that in the futuer

I’ve never had a jounal and like Devan I go from my memory, because the best days and things are  documented and solidely recorded in my memory. I can remember and also tell about them just as if it were yesterday.

I took notes of actions during a long cycle trip I ‘ve done 20 years ago and nowadays it’s really nice to read and remember.

But I never kept a journal about my childhood. I had a good childhood – perhaps a journal would destroy these feeling? ..haha :)

I have a journal too!

A week ago, I was setting in my class in school doing nothing, and my journal was in my bag, so I started to read it, And I laughed so much that my friends thought I was crying, haha… Beautiful topic just like this website :)

Many schoolgirls in my school time years used to keep a diary. They carefully described everything that happened during the day. They shared with diary the most secretive dreams and feelings. They decorated the pages of the diary with pictures, photos and stickers.

They kept the diary in the secretive place, away from parents and the closest friends. 

Their diary was locked with small and very attractive lock. The key of the lock has been hidden carefully as well.

There were lots of children that went through “diary fashion” . Some boys used to keep a diary too. 

As for me, I several times tried to write down the current events of my childish life, but all in vain. When I looked back to the pages I wrote they were not interesting and not worth-while to keep for long term. So, I gave up with that fashion idea throwing away the diary into the trash.

I kept a small worksheet instead where I used to write my own poems and prose. It was easier and much interesting  to describe my events or deep feelings with poems or prose. I used to add the elements of fiction to make my writings nicer.

Majority  of modern teenagers still like an idea to keep a diary. They find it relaxing to sit at the desk, take a pen and start to formulate their thoughts on paper.

Electronic diary (blog) is a wonderful invention but there is still some ancient magic in “live” diary with tangible, well-decorated pages. ;)

I think blogs are better place for recording any memories and experiences. The blog can be decorated in the most sophisticated way you like.  Widgets, links, video and audio, photos, articles   help to make a blog  an unique place where you can not only entertain yourself but also your close friends or relatives.

I’m fond of blogging. I keep blogs in English and in Russian. I have wrote up the stuff  from my shabby worksheet to the blog. I have translated some Russian stuff into English on purpose to improve my skills of the writing in English.

I enjoy bloggin even if nobody allowed to see what I wrote there ;) I like loneliness in the blogging. I don’t collect followers or comments. I write for myself : )

I have never kept a journal.

When I was a girl, I had some secrets as others, but I would have never wanted my parents or somebody else could read them.

If I had kert a journal, I would have definitely to hide it from everybody. And if anybody had read my journal, all my secrets would have been general knowledge. I don’t think it’s a good idea. So, I would never wanted to let the cat out of the bag.

A secret is a secret!

journal and dairy are very important, i use them.

I’d like to keep a journal when I was younger and nowadays to read it and to remember a lot of facts I lived then.

hmmm i have never had one!