My first entry

This is the first time that I've blogged in my life and I have mixed feelings about it. I have never kept a journal or a diary because I personally feel it is childish, and not very manly to do so, but I do not mind others who keeps it. Previously, when I was in primary or secondary school, I hated it when the teachers would make us keep a journal as a homework, I always gave the teachers crap in my journal by writing stuffs like what time I woke up and what I did today. I feel that journal is personal and it gives a person a place to rant and pour their feelings into an outlet without being judged by society or making others change their perception of them. However, making a journal a homework and then submitting it to be read and marked or post it online just defeats the purpose. How can it be marked when its so personal ?? I have alot more to talk about it but saving it for next entry.