Hi, I am Lora and I am home schooled. You may think home schooling is all fun and games, but it's really not. I mean, we do get to wake up at about eight, and if we finish school early we can have the rest of the day to play. But, we don't get to stay in our P.J.s all day, and we don't get four hour lunch brakes, and we don't get to take of days whenever we want. But I still love home schooling. The only downsides are, we don't get to hang out with friends, and when were sick we still have to do school. I've always wanted to try public school for just like a week. Any way, two years ago I started a co op called C.C. (stands for classical conversations) It is really fun. The first year I did the school part in the morning (Its called foundations) stayed for lunch and then had an art class in the afternoon. I personally love art so I liked the afternoon better. My 12 year old brother did something different. He took a class called Essentials. It is a writing class. I never really payed attention to what he did. Last year my mom decided to enroll me in essentials too. My first day I felt kind of out of place, because I was the youngest, but with my brother to help me I made it through the day.Also because I had an AWESOME teacher! (Mrs. Hall) each week we had to write a paper on a particular topic. I wrote a decent paper each week. It wasn't hard, but I wouldn't call it fun. The year flew by and pretty soon it was 2015. I enjoyed my summer, even though we were traveling most of it. When it came time to start again in September I was ready. I wasn't nervous and I actually was pretty excited. My friend's mom was the teacher. (Mrs. Murphy) She was also an AWESOME teacher. I wrote papers as usual each week. At about the eighth week of C.C. we had to write a story. I decided to write a historical fiction story about a girl who lived in the time of Moses parting the Red Sea. (in the Bible) I really liked writing my story, so I made it too long. I couldn't read the whole paper in class, so I had to read it in three parts. It was soon November and my mom made an announcement. she told me that she had signed me up to write a novel in November. (By the website NANOWRIMO) NA stands for national, NO stands for novel, WRI stands for writing, and MO stands for month.
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After I signed up I started writing. I wrote off of the story I had started for essentials. The goal on the website was 50,000 words. within half the month I had only gotten 5,000 words. I was hanging out with my friend and she said she was doing NANOWRIMO too. I asked her how far she had gotten and she said she had only gotten 2,000 words. I told her that we both need to hurry up A LOT to make it to 50,000, and she said that she was only doing 5,000 words. I asked her how to be able to sign up for less words and she showed me. It turned out that I had signed up for the adult version. I decided to only do 10,000 words. It's less then 50,000 but its still a lot. I finished my story on November 31 at eleven o' clock. (I had to finish my story before 11:59 on November 31) I was cutting it close. Soon I will get my novel published. (It's called, Life in Exodus) My mom saw how much I loved writing my novel so she asked me if I wanted to do a blog. I immediately said yes. My mom has a blog and she prints her blog into books sometimes. (I thought printing my blog would be cool too!) Well, anyway, this is my first blog post! See you later! -Lora
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