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2016. A year full of grace and promise. An ‘untouched’ year without any mistakes yet. A year to make us feel old and to remind us that anyone born in the year of 2000 is now, or soon will be, 16 years old. That would be me. I was born in 2000.

It’s nice. As time flies by and I start to forget how old I am, all that I will have to do is remember what year it is. 2028, 2032, 2087, 3000… the real question is, is that a curse or a blessing?

Hi. I’m Alison. Blogger, Highschooler and, oh… did I mention I’m homeschooled? For seven long years.

The story of why is a mystery to me. Perhaps it is because my mom decided that she didn’t want to send me to the local middle school that I was about to enter in another town (we moved away), or maybe it was the fact that she had a friend homeschooling(her own kids) at the same time, and wanted to try it out for herself. Either way, I ended up homeschooled :)

However, a more interesting story to tell is of how this blog started. You see, last semester, my first year of highschool, the co-op that I go to offered a newspaper class to teach a few of the older kids in our little ‘school’ how to write. My cousin, an x-journalist and editor for an award winning paper, was the new teacher. My first week of writing on a strict deadline was, to say it bluntly, terrible. The ‘subject’ of my first article was a male teacher that sparked the interest of the majority of the school. I emailed him with a list of questions such as, what made you want to become a teacher or why are you so good at what you do… that sort of thing. Saddly, the teacher never wrote me back, and with a deadline just days away, I texted my cousin in panic of what to do. Without my article, I could hurt the ‘flow’ or ‘order’ of the newspaper, on the first week!

Together, we brainstormed until my mom suggested the obvious… “Why not write a weekly column?”. That was what started ‘Homeschooling in Highschool’ with Alison. As the weeks went by, the older newspapers were thrown away and deleted. But I saved my articles, hoping that soon, I could use the hours spent of good writing in something else. Well, it wasn’t hard to come up with a blog. And so, here I am. Blogging for an entire semester. So, when you read these posts and laugh at them because you either think that they are funny or that the writing is terrible, know that they have been reviewed, edited and written with love for those who are willing to read them. Thank you for reading my bio, and for not being, what we call in journalism, a ‘lazy’ reader.

                                                             ~Alison Hope