Hello all, I hope everyone is well. I know this time is very difficult for everyone. Especially with emotions. So I thought I would share how I am feeling during the first few weeks of quarantine with y’all.
After Finding Out
I never thought that I would ever be so mad about school getting cancelled. I am usually overjoyed whenever a snow day presents itself. Over the past 12 years of going to school, I have always been ecstatic when I learn that we have an unexpected day off.
This time was different, I am guessing most people will relate to my views on having these next 3 weeks off. Honestly, I’m sad that we do not have school. I never ever ever thought that I would be saying that. Then again, I never thought that a virus would be ruining a big chunk of my senior year of high school.
Second semester senior year is supposed to be the time we can all just relax, have fun, and enjoy our time together. While this typically causes a ton of senioritis, it also causes for a lot of memories to be made. Whether it’s during off campus lunch or airband practices. More importantly, senior celebration, prom, and graduation. I just never thought it would even be a possibility that any of these would be cancelled. But now it is.
I guess the coronavirus is letting me learn a lot about myself. I never ever ever in a million years thought I would be so sad about not going to school, let alone cry over it. Which I admit I did on Friday. After a meeting with my soccer team, we all walked out of school knowing it would be the last time we would all be together for a while. I think saying goodbye to all of my teammates was probably the most difficult thing for me to accept because we had just started practicing. We were supposed to have our first game on Monday, but now I don’t know if we are even going to be able to play.
Basically, I am not really looking forward to the next few weeks and I just want my senior year back.
After Week 1
Okay, so I have gone through a whole week of eLearning, and I have a mutual feeling towards it. I would much rather be in my classes with everyone because I enjoy interacting with others during class. I do enjoy the fact that I can determine how fast I finish my classes. It was definitely an adjustment, I had to learn how to not procrastinate on everything with the option of going on Tik Tok at my disposal every minute. Usually I put my phone away during class at school because I do not want to be rude during class by having my phone out. But I don’t feel guilty having my phone out at home. Hopefully, my Tik Tok addiction won’t interfere too much with my schoo
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During this week, I had to learn to be around my family A LOT without getting frustrated at them. I think I am doing okay with distracting myself. I have already watched season 3 of On My Block and season 2 of All American. Both of which I highly suggest, they are A – MAZ – ING. I also complete a 1000 piece puzzle in about 4 days because I am that bored. Yes, I have resorted to puzzles. It’s okay, I have learned that I am actually pretty good at puzzles and am definitely going to be buying some more to do over the next few weeks.
I think the biggest thing that kept me sane all week was that my parents are letting me go outside and be around people as long as it is not a huge group.
This has been really nice because I have been able to leave my house to see some friends. A few times this week, some of my friends got together and went to play soccer which was really fun because we could all use the exercise.
This week definitely had some ups and downs for me emotionally. When airband got cancelled I cried, and I am not even in an airband. I was just so disappointed because it is such a big part of being a senior at North, and it was gone just like that. I think it just really hit me that there is that possibility that I might not be getting the rest of my senior year.
So I would say that my first full week wasn’t as bad as I was expecting. Yes, I was definitely bored but I was able to keep myself busy most of the time. Hopefully it doesn’t get much worse.
After Week 2
So I have just finished all my eLearning for this week and I am officially on SPRING BREAK!! While eLearning isn’t awful, I am just sick of having to do all this busy work that I would not be doing if I was at school. But I am happy to say that I have finished it all.
Now I just have to figure out what to do with my next week of free time. This past week was definitely more of a struggle because they closed down Nike park so I can’t go there to play soccer anymore. I guess I am going to have to try to go running… YIKES. This past week, I have been going for walks with my parents and our dog which has been a good way for me to get out of the house. I met up with some of my friends this week, which was very much needed. It was so nice to see them and just talk about everything except the coronavirus.
I spent a lot more time on facetime calls this week, I think it’s because everyone is starting to get tired of only talking to their family all day. Either way, it just helps to hear my friends voices and to laugh like we normally would. We have also discovered that a very fun game to play while facetiming is Psych because it is a live interactive game that has everyone write their own answers. We are actually planning to play again tonight with a bunch of people, so I am really excited for that.
There hasn’t been much bad news regarding school, except that it is closed through April 7th as of right now. Other than that, it has been pretty positive news for me because IHSA has announced that they are planning to extend the spring season so that sports have a chance to play. So things are looking up, maybe I will get my senior season after all.
I would say that my quarantine experience has been up and down. I am definitely trying to make the best out of this situation. I hope you all are doing well! Hopefully I will be seeing you soon.