I'm Homeschooled.

I love being homeschooled. I get to work five hours a day and hang out with friends for the rest. We all know each other, we're a pretty open minded group of kids - people don't have to hang out only with kids their age, and you're totally allowed to be weird and different. Even so, we (mostly) manage to act pretty normal and blend into crowds. But I do have to admit, there are some things homeschoolers do that just flat-out say: I am homeschooled. Here are the top twenty things that we do.

You know you're a homeschooler when...

1.  You average 50 field trips a year, granted that some of them are the nature walks in your greenbelt.

2.  You come to school in your PJs.

3.  You can quote the entire Princess Bride.

4.  When people ask what grade you are in, you have to think for a second before answering...and your answer varies depending on what subject you were just doing.

5.  The word "Saxon" brings you thrills of fear.

6.  Some years you do end up doing school in the summer, but it's usually just because you took a month long trip around the country while everyone else was in school.

7.  Your friends range from being way older to way younger than you are.

8.  Your locker is just a shelf in your bedroom.

9.  Lunch break is whenever you want it to be.

10.  Your social life is about as eventful as a monk's.  With the exception of your co-ops, of course!

11.  You've never gotten a real report card before.

12.  You actually enjoy reading and probably read more books in a month then most kids do in a year.

13.  When you're at a summer camp or something similar with lots of people you don't know and somebody says they are homeschooled, you are instant best friends.

14.  You probably are a nerdfighter.

15.  You judge distance of car rides by how many episodes of Mythbusters (your science 

course) it will take to get there.

16. Sometimes you wonder what going to "real school" would be like.

17.  When you see people getting on and off the school bus you sometimes make fun of them a little bit.

18.  Chores are on your school schedule.

19.   Every once and a while, you still actually use e-mail to communicate with people.

20.  And yet, you still actually act like a regular human being who is in touch with the universe most of the time.  People sometimes actually act surprised when you tell them you're homeschooled.