Tempermental Authors

Life really like to slap you in the face sometimes. Like, you've had a great day, and then something happens to just totally reverse that happiness. Today was a good day. We had begun to plan our family vacation out West, I had even gotten a new bike, because my old one was rusty and not functioning well. And then the mail came. I've been entering into a lot of essay contests recently, hoping that I could get money for school from some of them. This year, I really thought that my essay for the National Peace Essay had a chance of winning, that it was strong. A letter came in the mail: I had made it to the second round of judging, but hadn't been awarded one of Pennsylvania's three prizes. Guess who had won? Every single one of PA's winners is homeschooled. I just wanted to cry. I don't understand how on earth it's fair to let homeschool kids compete side by side kids who actually go to school. If you're homeschooled, you can spend time during school doing these essays, somehow work them into your curriculum. If you actually are in school, you have to do them, AND all of your other work. I just think that it's a totally different situation, and that people who go to school should be in a different category from people who can devote however much time that they need to these type of projects, and just write it off as school.

I used to be homeschooled, but from my current perspective, I realize why I did so well in things back them. It was because I didn't have other things like, oh, I don't know, school, to worry about.

I know I missed my blog yesterday, so expect one later today to make up for it.

Peace. Love. Happiness.
~Cody