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About jellyellie Name: jellyellie (duhh) Age: Currently 17. Started writing How Teenagers Think at 14, it was published at age 15. Location: Surrey, UK Siblings: jellyellie has a younger brother Alex, 15, who is pictured with her on the front cover of How Teenagers Think. This required quite a bit of bribing on jellyellie's part, something Alex won't let her forget. Education: jellyellie went to school until age 14, when she became incredibly frustrated with the constraints of the school system and left to be home educated. She joined a local home education group, met lots of crazy people, followed an autonomous route of education (no teachers, timetables, lessons or cirriculum) and generally had a great time. She took one GCSE - Business Studies - and numerous other weird qualifications, including a CompTIA A+ and RYA Competent Crew. Being home educated also allowed jellyellie to dedicate a lot of her time to working on How Teenagers Think, something she wouldn't have been able to do had she been at school. jellyellie then successfully decided to try and get into college on her one GCSE, so she is currently studying Psychology and Law AS Levels, and is also undertaking a Freelance and Features Writing correspondence course with the London School of Journalism. Interests: jellyellie loves listening to music, has a guitar and bass that she doesn't play enough (just pretend you didn't hear that when you read the Music chapter in How Teenagers Think), juggles and spins poi, and loves anything to do with the outdoors and the sea: sailing, windsurfing, wakeboarding, and flying powerkites all float her boat. Cough. jellyellie also has a bit of a weird interest in 'people' - she loves the whole psychology/personality/body-language thing and could easily spend a day in London just watching everybody walk past. However, this is a little strange, so jellyellie just sticks to "enjoying meeting new people" - making contacts is her favourite pastime. Previous projects: Aged 13, jellyellie created bluejackQ.com, the world’s first and most authoritative website about bluejacking - sending anonymous messages using Bluetooth mobile phones. The witty bluejacking stories jellyellie wrote caught the global media’s interest and clocked up over 3 million page views in less than two years. Worldwide media interest included feature interviews on BBC TV & radio, the CNN, a full-page article in The Times, article in the International Herald Tribune and numerous other national and international publications. When she was 14, jellyellie was approached by a blue-chip global telecoms company to be a freelance columnist for a new website they were launching on innovation. This was a brilliant opportunity for jellyellie to make invaluable contacts, and she had great fun attending editorial meetings at their London HQ. Goal in Life: jellyellie's goal in life is to have fun. Through doing so, she will meet tonnes of awesome people, and "make shitloads of money". OK, so her proper goal is to write books, be a freelance writer/journalist, then set up her own business (she doesn't know what in yet) and become a multi-billionaire magnanimous entrepreneur. Sorted. |
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