7/25/2023 0 Comments Time donkey balls![]() I’m just eager to find out how this whole thing will play out. Maybe I’ll run away to L.A., become super rich and famous, and social distancing won’t have nothing on me. Who knows what high school will be like with all of these new rules? If it turns out high school is online, I seriously don’t know what I’ll do. You’d assume I’d be looking forward to high school as well but not really. The only thing I look forward to anymore is ordering takeout. I was looking forward to graduation, to end the year off with all of my friends. Just the feeling of having something to keep you pushing, something you’ve been waiting for. When things were normal, we’d see movies at the movie theatre a lot we’d go out for dinner with our friends and that sort of thing.įor me, one of the best feelings was rushing home from school on a Friday afternoon and looking forward to our Friday night plans. One thing I really miss is the feeling of looking forward to something. I will say that I’m proud of myself for keeping myself entertained (for the most part). These two months so far have been the slowest, fastest, longest, shortest months of my life. But with such strict social distancing rules, it’s just not the same.ĭescribing quarantine is hard, but one sentence sums it all up perfectly for me: Everyday is a Sunday morning. I do have several close friends, and when we hang out it’s always a lot of fun. We hang out a lot at school, but outside of school hours, we don’t really talk. But many of my friends I consider my “in school” friends. It’s not that I don’t have friends – because I do have a handful of friends and I like them all a lot. Sadly, if you’re not too popular (like me), then chances are you spend a lot of time sitting at home all day not doing too much. The popular kids at school are definitely having the time of their lives right now, hanging out with all of their friends and even meeting up with kids from different schools. What do I spend it doing, you may ask? Do I see my friends? Now lets talk about all this extra time I suddenly seem to have. ![]() I have a bad habit of going through old photos and videos on my phone of me and my friends hanging out while everything was normal. Sometimes I sit and wonder about all the things I missed because of COVID-19 – all of the inside jokes that my friends and I would have shared, all of the happy memories I missed out on. I had a good time just messing around with my friends and enjoying the last year of elementary school with no stress on my shoulders. My shortened school year was fun while it lasted. It is definitely not fun, and I prefer the boring, in-class math lessons. Learning math in front of a teacher was so clear and way easier for me to understand, but now I have to go through tons of YouTube videos of old men with thick accents explaining to me how to divide a fraction. That’s bad enough – but just imagine getting loads and loads of math homework which wasn’t taught to you. Now with school online, it’s just one big LOSE. ![]() ![]() Still not a subscriber to Pencils and Popcans ? Why the heck not - it’s free! We saw our friends (definite win) BUT we had to do work (definite LOSE). When school was in, it was a win/lose situation. I hate when adults say that quarantine is like an extended summer break for children, because it is everything opposite of that. But do you ever wonder what quarantine is like from a kid’s perspective? You adults are probably finding quarantine pretty rough – you have to find ways to entertain your kids, work has become more of a hassle, and you’re probably bored most of the day. COVID Life Through the Eyes of a 14-Year-Old Millie Howard is in Grade 8 – heading into high school in the fall. ![]()
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