Every blog's entitled to an introductory post, non?
I've toyed with the idea of starting a blog for a while now. I guess what really made me get off my butt (or on it, rather) and actually START one was the quintessential peer pressure that I've been subjected to for the past couple of months. Mostly, this has been coming from my mother; her friend's daughter has a pretty successful blog about her semester in Nicaragua and I think she feels threatened. After all, she's always going on about what a "brilliant writer" I am, even though any writing I've done in the past two years hasn't been of my own volition.
The other monkey on my back's a good friend of mine. I'm not sure what she wants me to call her here, so I won't say her name. Anyway, she started her own blog about a month ago, Somewhere In Between, and you should all read it diligently.
I think the main reason I put this off for so long was that I couldn't think of any reason for someone to read about my life. I'm not a recovering drug addict. I'm not in a cult. I don't have eleven siblings. I don't have an endless supply of witty remarks regarding the election. For the most part, I'm just your typical, teenage girl in high school. A private high school. Which brings us to the title.
"The Preposterous." I currently go to a college preparatory school, one of the best in the Midwest, but I haven't been in the private system forever. Up until my sophomore year I was enrolled in a public school, and until high school it wasn't a problem. I live in a small town, and junior kindergarten through eighth grade I was with the same sixty kids. Then I became one of a thousand freshmen, and my brain overloaded.
I could say that I want to illustrate what life in a private school is like, how it's different than public school. But that would be a lie. Truth be told, I just want to start writing again. I haven't for so long, it's hard; like when you don't use a muscle for a long, long time.
I'm still going with the whole private school theme though. It's the summer. I'll write about school in the fall. And besides, I don't want to have to come up with a new alias.
-Prep
