Why I write about education

Like most bloggers, after just few published posts and stunning zero comments on them, I feel obliged to tell you more about myself and explain to you why did I even create this blog.

I'll jump straight to the point - no, i'm not teacher or professor - i'm just a student but i love writing, doing resarches, reports and such, in fact anything that has to do with writing.

But what  interest you more is probably why I write precisely about education, schools, school programs, etc. In order to answer your question, I have to say something little bit more about myrself.

Like every average schoolgirl in my country, and that is Croatia, I went to school at age six. What might not be so average is that I didn't go to kindergarten or any kind of preschool before elementary school unlike most of my peers. Understandably I was extremely scared of what awaited me in school. I knew neither read nor write, and I am quite sure I did not even know how to properly add small numbers. Furthermore, at some kind of preschool test I didn't know to show to the pedagog which arm is left and which is right and when he point at the picture of a sheep asking me which animal is it, I panicked and forgot how to say sheep. My brilliant academic start doesn't end there. Among two others in the class, I had to repeat reciting the alphabet in front of the whole class for few times because I always messed up the order of some letters. The first score I got was a F in math. That test I buried at grandma's garden. I'm not kidding. I tore it and then buried it so my mum doesn't find out.
Things were not going in my favor.

Before we all conclude the worst about me I'll shift to the part with bragging.
I caught up with my classmates and soon I was the fastest and best reader in class. As soon as I learned how to write, I started to write outside of the school just for fun. My first story ever was about some caterpillar who turned into a beautiful butterfly. It's important to state that it was the BEAUTIFUL butterfly because I used that attribute quite a lot in that. Since that, I was writing constantly, no matter is it writing a story, poems or writing for school newspapers. Besides school newspaper, my work was published in a few local books and other repertories. Nothing big.

Besides writing, I was inetersted in almost all of school subjects and I just wanted to know more about everything. It was hard for me to choose college because it meant I need to choose one field and focus on it. I chose programming. I find it challenging and really like it.
Being straight A student, in elementary and high school, meant also being constantly called nerd and dealing with lot of prejudices, but I was always proud and I have to say I didn't have some especially awkward situations. However, it always bothered me, and in the same time I wondered, why lots of students find shameful to be a good student. Why is 'cool' being bad student? Is our society really that disturbed?

And that is exactly why i decided to write about and promote education.

Hope you'll like it.

P.S. pic related, it's me ;)
NOTE TO MYSELF: start taking  pictures of yourself so you don't have to post the one where you look like a complete idiot