April 27, 2020

I think everyone would agree with me when I say that we all have things we miss and don’t miss from before the outbreak. Here are a few of mine.

I don’t miss getting up at 6:30 every morning and having to get ready for school. I don’t miss having 2+ hours of homework every night. I don’t miss having to wait on the rest of the class to be quiet; and then staying after class because of other people’s actions. I don’t miss the craziness and noise of the cafeteria at lunch. And, I don’t miss going to various events all the time; like appointments, sports practices, games on the weekends, etc.

However, I do miss having more of a structure to my day. I miss knowing everything that was going to happen that day. I miss seeing my peers and teachers everyday. I miss talking to people in real life, instead of over Zoom. I miss the time when I was going to finish out 8th grade in normal school, not over Zoom and Google Classroom. I miss the time when I wasn’t going to start high school after being out-of-school for almost 6 months. 

There are a lot of things that I miss and don’t miss from before the outbreak. But, I know this situation could be so much worse, and that we are all lucky to live in an area that has not been hit that hard. I also know that we are lucky to attend a school where we have school-provided iPads, and a staff that is doing their absolute best to create a new way of learning for us students.