You learn something every day you're not in school

I suppose the one key advantage to homeschool is that you can actually learn things worth knowing. Or learn things you wouldnt normally learn in your average high school. How to change the oil in a car, for example.
Here is a list of the things I'd like to learn now that I actually have a chance to do so.

HOW TO FIX THINGS

• carpentry
• household appliances
• basic knowledge: how a phone works, how to install a cieling fan, etc
• Basic auto mechanics (I'm going to help Jake study for his test thingy)
  

MULTICULTURAL

• religions
• languages*
• family structure
• government*

HOUSE-ISHY STUFF

• gardening stuff
• research on Wicca
• balancing checkbooks
• buying a car
• paying rent
• all that stuff everyone does that no one shows you how to do but assumes you were born knowing

FUN THINGS

• Guitar
• Alto Sax
• Drawing
• Animation
• Photo
  
• Theatre*
• Hockey
• Yoga

THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT BUT "THEY" DONT WANT YOU TO KNOW

• Civil disobedience
• Questioning authority
• Independent thought
• (Hey, I gotta be me.)

General things I'd want to know upon being eighteen.

HISTORY
Famous wars/tactics
governemnts.. Empires and their downfalls
politics. . . How masses are easily manipulated by fear. Loopholes governments use, Famous lawsuits. *
Family History (both sides)

SCIENCES
Chemistry.. I wanna play with unstable chemicals *psychotic grin*
Slight amounts of biology*. Anatomy.. Psychology.. How the human mind works, how genetics v. social situations effect a person.


LITERATURE
Classics: Books everyone wants to have read but no one wants to read. *
Different forms of poetry
The life of Edgar Allen Poe
Aesop's fables
"mythology"
Sophie's World

MATH
Slight amounts of physics
Concept of infinity
Geometry/architecture-ish
Building flats/set construction in general..the numberish side to it

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*Things we learned this year