Hello World

Hello everyone. I should probably start with a short introduction of myself. My name is Jason, I live in Salt Lake City Utah, I like long walks on the beach.... Just Kidding. My name is indeed Jason, and I do live in Salt Lake City, but I don't care much for long walks on the beach. I am, as you can probably tell by the title of this blog, a home-schooled teenager, a junior in high school to be exact, which puts me at 16 years of age. Some of my many interests include Debate, 3D animation and Visual Effects (the sort of stuff you see in movies, TV shows, and Commercials), Karate, Eating (who doesn't), playing the viola and guitar, Hanging out with my friends, and so many other things that I couldn't even begin to name them.

Now, first I am going to dispel some of the myths surounding home-schoolers like myself.

Myth 1:We are nerdy) I am not nerdy at all (although at one time I was just a bit, but that was about 5 years ago). Many of my home-schooled friends are so anti what the stereotypical home-schooled image is that that many people wouldn't even think of them as home-schooled. One of my friends is the captain of the swimming team at one of our local high schools, another: a relatively famous local actor. I play basketball for one of the local high schools from time to time, hold first chair in the Utah Youth Symphony Orchestra with my Viola, and have done a lot of other non-nerdy things.

Myth 2: We are anti-socialized) I hope you can see by my very creation of this blog that I am 100% not anti-socialized. I have as many friends as my regular high-schoolers, pick up girls just as well as anybody else, and make new friends faster than many of my high-schooled friends.

As I continue with this blog I will dispel more myths, but for now two is enough.

Next I will outline what this blog will do. First, it will not be a whiny chronicling of my life. It will, instead, provide insight into what goes on inside a teenage home-schooler's mind and will try to be informative on things going on around us. I will be giving my reviews on such things as the current movie I watched, the latest book I read, or the latest video game I played. I will also throw in a bit of politics, mainly because it's something that I enjoy, and I think more high schoolers should be more involved with. I will also share my own advice to problems that people send in. If you would like me to answer you question, or give you any advice in my blog, just shoot me an e-mail to jmkosloski@gmail.com

Goodnight everyone