The name Hannah Joy was given to me to the day I was born. It was in the previous century at a hospital in New Jersey. I've moved a lot in my life, but the place that I've always returned to, that feels like home, is Texas. So -you guessed it- I'm sitting at my laptop (named Sell) in my bedroom at my desk in a house on a street in a town in a state in a country in the world on the planet Earth. Everyone lives here, billions and billions of people, so why did you come here?

Being born in 1994 lands me at fifteen, so I'm in the middle of the teenaged years, which I've been told is long, hard, awkward, and difficult. I never looked forward to being a teenager. I have an older sister who made teenage life look early very early on. She has two-and-a-half years on me, which I used to envy, but now love. School came in the form of my mother hold a textbook in her hand, teaching it to me. I knew about 'regular school', but being homeschooled was special. It was something very, very special to me until it got old and tiresome. My family had just moved to a new town. We were busy and it was time for change. That was the year I went to public school. I regret being the person who I was then. The emotional damage it's left me with is like a bruise that turned into a scar, but it just won't fade. I've had several people ask me if I regret going to school. I don't, because it was best for my family then, and I learned a lot about life that year that I need to know. As painful as it was, it was one of those imperative things that you can't imagine having to relive, but it was something that's a part of you, and you can't let go of it. When you fall the hardest you find how strong you are, and that's exactly what I did. It's very painful and the inspiration of the novel which is the works. A novel at fifteen? Yeah, I've always been different. But that's good. Because you need to treasure who you are. You are the only you who exists, so make yourself special by being exactly who you are and being proud of it.

School wouldn't be half as bad as it is for most people if you stopped viewing it as a legally mandatory annoyance. You have to admit that that is how most people view it. I don't hate school, but I don't love it either. Maybe how I don't have to get up at the crack of dawn (I consider anything before about 9am the crack of dawn) makes it better for me. I don't know. I've experienced both. I did fine in school. I didn't have trouble passing, I graduated with honors--well honors for an intermediate. I did amazingly well on the TAKS Test and got commended, and I placed 4th place for UIL Writing, so I consider than an honor. -School being homeschooled is very different than regular school. It's impossible to describe it if you haven't lived it, so I'm not going to try to begin explaining it.

Spelling and writing is my strength. I hate the subject category of Language Arts. I don't care about passive and active or intransitive and intransitive or predicate adjectives and nominatives. Those are the things that make people hate school.. the things that no matter how many times you do them are boring and lame. Writing poetry and stories is fun. It works your mind, which some people don't like, but it takes you to another world that you get to create, which I've always thought is like the coolest thing EVER. I have two stories in the works and one of my favorite things to do to my mom is spell a word WAAAAY too fast when she's giving me a test, so she has to repeat it.

I love reading. I love it with a passion that can nail me to a chair for six hours in a row. It's my addiction, however unhealthy it may be, it doesn't harm me or anyone else, so I don't care. My favorite authors are Elizabeth Scott, Sarah Dessen, and D. Anne Love. My favorite books are Love You Hate You Miss You, Stealing Heaven (ES), North of Beautiful (Justina Chen Headley), What Happened to Lani Garver (Carol Plum-Ucci), The Truth About Forever (SD), Frozen Fire (Tim Bowler), The Red Necklace (Sally Gardner), and Semiprecious (DL).

Besides reading, I'm attached to websites. I've worked for/co-webbed/run/owned at least 35 in my life. I narrowed down the list to three celebrities, then four, and now five are in the works, not including this.
» Always Jordan - Jordan Pruitt
» Devastating Demi - Demi Lovato
» Selena's Scene - Selena Gomez
» Radio Disney Club - Online Source for the radio station Radio Disney
» Simply Kay - Kay Panabaker (coming 12/30/09)

Some people have the idea that homeschoolers are shut-ins with no social life. Although that makes me laugh, it also greatly annoys me, since it's nothing like that at all. Sure, you don't have a bunch of people surrounding you eight hours a day, but you do have friends. You just have to go out and make them. I attend Hip Hop Nation Dance Academy, which I go to every Thursday. I go out and run errands with my mom on Wednesdays, and I hang out with my friends too. I LOVELOVELOVE Double Chocolate Chip Frappuccinos and Mocha from Starbucks and the movies. I go to the church that is right around the corner from my house. (It literally is, if you walk across the grass to the sidwalk about walk for about 30 seconds to 1 minute. Then there's this four way stop and you take a left. The church is right there.) I go there most Wednesdays and Sundays.

I live with my parents who have been married for 20 years and my sister. Her name is Sarah. Based on the year I was born in, you have probably figured out that she is very close to the legal age. (1/23). We both used to be homeschooled. After I went back to it, she chose to stay there. She made friends and no longer wanted me or my family a part of her life. She turned into everything that I am against. Due to that and several other personal issues, we have no relationship. I love her very much, but I don't know her anymore. I'm best friends with Anna Lee and then there's CJ & Embee & Niyomi, who I'm very good friends with.

"If perfection was outward appearance, no one is perfect. If perfection is about beauty in the image God made you, everyone is perfect. Your flaws are what make you beautiful."