The Monthly Wrap — April 2013
The Monthly Wrap — April 2013
Here at the3six5NG, we’re chuffed to have clocked another milestone — two consecutive months without a break of building our collaborative 2013 diary — thanks to you…
As with March 2013, in April 2013, the typical contributor was most likely to be female (83%), live in Nigeria (53%) and maintain a blog and a twitter account (77%). In April we had two people with no prior blogging or tweeting experience sign up and share, as well as our first contribution from East Asia :)
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We continue to read and engage in a fairly consistent manner — 6,000 plus total views and nearly 2,000 unique visitors with first time visits from places as far-flung as Brazil, Ghana, Malaysia and Finland..
As with March, we engaged primarily from within the UK, the US and Nigeria; albeit with a slight increase in views from the US over Nigeria,
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What we wrote about:
We wrote about traveling, and how going away with expectations can end up being underwhelming, as can be returning. We rocked our music — creating, thinking in and even dreaming in song.
We showed we cared about family, friends and significant others — making their special days truly special, finding solitude and the chance to refuel our batteries in their company, helping out at their weddings hoping to catch a fine bloke’s eye as a bonus, freaking out with them as dry cleaners failed to deliver, being thankful for their loyalty unlike debit cards and celebrated the joys of catching up with them, even at the ungodly hour of 7.50am on a Sunday morning.
We maintained our healthy interest in food — facing our very own (American) paradox of choice, succumbing to midnight cravings for tea and failing somewhat at calorie counting.
We mused about God and faith a fair bit too — finding the strength and Grace to keep changing, to deal with the loss of loved ones and to parent and be a shining model for an impressible kid. We were hopeful about new beginnings, reveled in the belief that God had our back but also worried that he seemed distant, at what the future might portend, the workings of his Master Plan, and growing a business.
We worked hard — from home, from hotels thanks to PHCN’s ineptitude, put ex-KGB boots on the road on Miracle Mondays, mixed it with studying and just plain studied hard, taking crash reading to whole new levels of efficiency.
My personal favorite? Titi G beat cancer…
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Special thanks to @Kiahs_ who keeps the @the3six5NG twitter feed more entertaining than my love for dodgy science will allow for, and @funkolaani who edited/moderated the group blog for most of April 2013