As the beginning of the new school year approaches, I find myself wondering where the time went. Now you may be thinking that I'm crazy, but we've been in quarantine for quite awhile. It's been almost five months since the start of what we thought would be a "two week vacation," and to be honest spending this much time at home was not my ideal image of how I'd spend my 16th year of living (I imagine many of you relate). After barely getting acquainted with online learning in the months of April and May, we are about to dive into it again-but this time it’ll be more rigorous than what it was before. In addition to that, we are entering our junior year of high school which is said to be the most “difficult” out of the four. It baffles me just how many things have changed during this period of time. It might just be me, but I honestly don’t feel ready to enter one my last years of high school.
If I were to go back before this all started, to “pre-corona” as some call it, I would have definitely been more appreciative of my surroundings. As weird of this may sound, I actually miss going to school and waking up early in the morning. Once again, you might be thinking that I’m crazy, but staying up late and waking up whenever I please, doesn’t exactly “hit” the way it used to. Now, we’ll be waking up early, but this time it won’t be the same. Instead of waking up and getting ready to go to school, we’ll be waking up and maybe think about getting ready before we settle ourselves in front of our computers for school.
With the new way we go about things, it makes me wonder if the earlier months of this year were the last bit of “normal” social interactions that we’ll ever experience. Do you guys feel the same? Do you feel that you’ve adjusted to this new way of life completely? Or are there things that you feel you can’t get used to? And lastly, this one just for fun, how did you imagine this year to be before things changed?
I personally am a bit stubborn to going back into the swing of things. I feel that this way of life suits me more as its a lot more flexible with time. I feel as if I have adjusted to this life because it feels like something I've always wanted. Feeling this way as I have time to do more activities at home as most of the day was free. I imagined the year as a year where I could devolp relationships with some friends that I felt I wasn't as close to as others. This ended up happening in a strange way, but with the people I wasn't expecting, which was in a sense uplifiting because I've had more time to contact them, compared to if I was in school. If school was like this for the rest of my highschool experience I wouldn't mind too much, but if it went back it'd be fine. In the end I could go either way in handling school
ReplyDeleteHi Eric! I completely understand what you mean by having more free time, and a more flexible schedule. These were also things that I enjoyed while in quarantine, but what do you do when you run out of activities? Glad to hear that your experience has been positive for you :)
DeleteFor the first few months, I missed school a lot and I really wanted to go back. I felt like I could've done so much more during my sophomore year and I was very anxious about if we would go back or not. Then I started getting used to always being home and it wasn't as bad. I felt like I could focus on my hobbies and I was able to do things I couldn't do before quarantine because I didn't have enough time. However, I also became very unmotivated to do anything productive. I found myself playing games or scrolling mindlessly on Instagram just to pass the time. I'm in a weird state where I'm excited for school to start but I'm also worried that I won't be able to keep up. I imagined junior year being stressful, but I could have never imagined something such as this.
ReplyDeleteHi Juliane! I had a similar feeling to what you experienced, after I had my fun I felt that there was very little that I could do to pass the time. Most days, I ended up cooped up in my room watching movies on my phone. Junior year probably won’t be any easier with the fact that we'll be starting online, but I do hope that it won’t be too far from what we were supposed to have originally. Thanks for responding, and I wish you the best this year! :D
DeleteI definitely agree with you when you said that you would've been more appreciative of your surroundings before coronavirus. I'm somewhere in the middle of adjusting. I can't get used to how minimal my conversations have been with people and not having much social interactions with friends. I imagined this year to be eventful since our show choir was preparing for the competition at Los Alamitos and we would soon go on tour to Tennessee.
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