A Home School Question

Oh those common homeschool questions that we are so very used to hearing!!

I love them! 
I usually think they're pretty darn funny.
My favorite questions when people learn that I'm homeschooled, are:
"Do you get to wear your PJ's all day?"
or
"Is your dad your principal?"
or
"Do you have friends?"
or
"So then you must be real smart, right?"
-(Uuuhh, did any of you notice that I spelled Tagged "Taged" in my last post? That should answer that question!;)
or
"Can you wake up whenever you want?"

*laughs*
The list could go on and on!
(Do any of you have any you'd like to add?;)

 One of my bestest blogger buddies asked me a homeschool question on a previous blog post, 

and it's deeper than most homeschool questions I get, and I'm going to answer it to the best of my ability. :)


Her question was,
"I reckon having a big family and being homeschooled is awesome, but I don't quite understand how you meet people outside your family & church.
(This isn't meant as a criticism, just a question!) 
Eventually, we're all going to have to deal with people who aren't Christian and think/behave very differently to us, so why not get used to this kind of thing young, so as to make it less of a shock when the child leaves home?"



First of all, I have no problem meeting people.
I understand why people would think that's not true though because we do go to school at home. :)

I meet people through activities such as tennis and swimming and I've been in a homeschool group for my whole life, so I feel like I have an abundance of great friends. :) 
Friends are definitely important, but I have built in BFFs right here in my house. :D
I've never been in a clique, and I'm glad to have avoided the "girl drama" that so many gals my age have gone through and are going through now.
There are not many things I hate more than drama! hehee


Now, my friend made the seemingly true point that if we're all of the sudden exposed to the world, then it's going to be such a huge shock.

This semester I'm taking two classes at our local technical college and only on Saturdays while my dad waits for me in the hall. ;D
In a way it's really sad to see all the hopeless people, but I've made friends with my whole class, and they all know for WHOM i stand.

It's been pretty amazing! :)

Yes, it has been shocking!
The blatant anti-christian rhetoric that I have been exposed to this semester has been a pretty big surprise for me, but I feel like I was better prepared at the age I'm at now, as opposed to if I were sent to school at a younger age. 

 Often when parents send their children out in the world before they're ready, the world shapes them and they conform to its patterns.
Roman 12:2

I think if I were put in a school environment from an early age, I would have been more calloused to the hatred toward God and the sad hardened hearts that strongly protest God's greatness.
I guess I am glad that I have been so shocked by and not immune to the rebellion that is so obvious in our culture.  I have compassion for the lost and a desire to communicate the gospel to them.



My parents kept, and are still keeping, me at home so they can shape, sharpen, and mold me into the young woman God calls me to be.

I am so thankful for their protection, and the older I get the more I understand why they protect and prepare us the way they do.

Thanks mom and dad for guarding me like spider monkies! :) *teehee*

So, I would say, yes, it is shocking but
shocking in a very a good way. :)

I'm now finally back from my first day at Trident Tech! I'm taking two college courses every Saturday, and today was my first day. It went great and I really liked  both of my teachers!!

I'm going to confess that I was a little bit worried about the Psychology class because I didn't know untill about 12:30 last night that I had to come to  class prepared for a quiz for the first 2 chapters! I didn't realize I was receiving emails already from my professors through the college's email system. So my sweet daddy stayed up late with me and helped me take notes and when I got there Iwas familiar with  all the stuff she was talking about because I had read the chapters! That was a relief! Thanks dad!

In my English class we will be writing a paper every week and reading it aloud.

Not untill after we finished writing the papers did we find out we had  to  read it out loud to the class.

There were only two guys and two girls that read theirs out loud. The rest  refused.... really they did! . I really would have preferred not to read it to the class, but I didn't want to seem like I didn't care so I volunteered. It wasn't bad at all! I actually enjoyed getting to share my paper with the class, and also listening to the others.

I thought it'd be  fun to also put my writing on my blog every week.

Today we were writing discriptive papers, and it could be about anything.

I picked  Nova Scotia, Canada to describe. We went there 3 summers ago... wow, it doesn't seem like that long!!!

This is what I mustered up in the 10-20 minutes given to us:



Second Paradise Nova Scotia

The Bright blue Nova Scotian sky stretched out over the glistening bay and looked like it went on for eternity. The sound of the gulls, the sight of the magnificent beauty of the cool ocean breeze was captivating. Such detail went into its creation. The cool yellow sand hugged my feet as I marveled at foam ingulfing the shiny wet boulders which sat by the clear blue water.

   In the many days that were spent in Nova Scotia, Canada I noticed that this land only became more and more alluring.

   While paddle boating one could look any direction and see what could be a painting. If you were to look dead ahead your eyes would see a never ending body of glass water. One's mind could drift away with the limp sea grass which has somehow managed to stay afloat. Looking to your left your eyes would find a lonely island just waiting to be explored. To the right you would see the rocky shores and listen to the rocks being splashed by cold water and that is a sight that southerners don't see very often. Once your eyes have moved in all direction you can look behind the little paddle boat and see a white farm house ontop of a big green hill just over looking the Canadian shore. My trip was beautiful in so many ways. It is an experience I would love to have again.

This is Peggy's Cove. We all have hiked around on these rocks.

This is where we stayed .

It is called Second Paradise.

• Drivers Ed. •

Well, I did it. I have completed Drivers Education! I am now educated in the art of driving a car! I took an eight hour class and I had three two hour sessions driving with an instructor.

I now know lots of interesting facts about driving, but I still can't drive squat!

The last guy I drove with, the most awkward person on this planet, said "Now, you aren't a bad driver, you're just too slow, and you don't execute like you should, and I can tell you're  nervous while driving, and we still need to work on parallel parking and six point turns more, but you're not bad, and here's your certificate. Good Job Karis!"

Okay people, those all seem like qualities of a bad driver, BUT I got my certificate, and I can now go get my drivers license! hehehee

I'll probably be doing more driving with my parents now. ;)

Here's the A-DORE-A-BLE little car I drove.

Hope you are all having a blessed day!

•Music's Role in America•

I have recently started a writing program called IEW and it's really great. This is my first writing assignment, and I though it would motivate me to do well if I posted it on my blog. Hope y'all enjoy!

Music’s Role in America

By: Karis Brown

9/22/2009

The well-known men who courageously assisted in the signing, and writing, of the Declaration of Independence primary consisted of John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine. Although Thomas Paine wasn’t officially one of the committed members, he still justly assisted in this great task that lay before them all. There were more bright men who were also a part of this great task, but they were not familiar to most nor were they as famous. The first draft of this document was complete and agreed upon and it contained the basic points, but they all knew that the language used in the final draft would need to be artistic as well as inspiring and precise. Adams too rough, Franklin too sick, and Paine too controversial to author the final draft, so the task fell upon Jefferson. Thomas Jefferson’s landlady recorded in her journal that Jefferson was struggling to complete this substantial task that was given to him, and in the rooms above she wrote that she would hear him endlessly pacing only to gain daily frustration. He anxiously sent home for his violin, and when it finally arrived after only a few days Jefferson would pace a little, play his violin and then there would be silence, except for his feather pen writing what would soon be the Declaration of Independence. Music may have helped unlock his linguistic genius, or perhaps it made him more receptive to the word of destiny: “When in course of human events…” Either way, few people are fully aware of the great importance that the violin had in the founding of our country.