On Blogging and Communication

For the longest time I've heard about people in my situation who created blogs, but stopped adding to them after only a few weeks. Until recently I could not understand this trend at all, as blogging seems to be a great, dual-purpose form of communication. Blogging informs your friends and family about what you've been doing and allows you to share your joys and pains with them, and it also allows you to keep a sort of a journal for your own use later. It works out for everyone involved.
However, I've recently started to realize why people drop their blogs, and I'd like to explain that. Blogging allows you to feel connected to your world at home; to communicate with everyone you know, but this ability starts losing its appeal very soon after arriving in Germany. For the first few weeks, you are still an American student finding your way in a scary new world, exploring and trying things, then rushing home to tell everyone you know about them. Soon, though, you actually acclimate to your surroundings. You slowly lose your identity as a lost foreigner and assume the role of an average student. You know your surroundings, you have friends, and you do things with your host family. This isn't really the reason why communication loses its appeal, though. The real problem lies in the fact that your new life becomes your world; your only world. Whereas you once lived in the US, had American friends and American parents, and went to an American school, your world has shifted from the US to Germany. Knowing exactly what your friends back home are up to is no longer as important, because they don't factor into your new world. This is the same with talking to your parents and sharing stories, pictures, and thoughts. This affects blogging in a big way, as we no longer feel urged to keep everyone we know up-to-date.... It's just not important anymore. This isn't to say that I love my friends or my family less, it's just that my life exists somewhere else now, and it's hard and dissatisfying to try and meld the two worlds together.
There are a few more reasons why blogging is an unexpected challenge, but I don't think I need to go into those. This main reason dominates not only blogging, but all other forms of communication I could be keeping up with.
As you can probably infer from all of this, I will be blogging less in the future. However, this does not mean I'm quitting. I fully intend to keep updating and adding to this blog, as well as sharing pictures and thoughts through other mediums (e.g. Facebook.)