Day 3 (March 18, 2020) about noon:
At the beginning of the outbreak, I would make jokes about it with friends and act like it wasn’t a big deal. When someone would cough or sneeze, one of us would say, “You have the coronavirus!” and all of us would laugh along with it. When it reached the U.S, we still joked about it, but I was personally a little scared. Then it reached New York, and all of us became pretty paranoid. Everyone started bringing hand sanitizer with them to school, people started to stock up on food, toilet paper, etc. I kept saying I wanted schools to close, but only because I thought I could see my friends every day and watch lots of tv and sleep until 9am. But when the mayor actually closed schools, and my parents sat down and discussed the issue with me, I realized it wouldn’t be as fun as I thought.
For starters, I’m turning 13 on April 10th, which is pretty soon, and I was supposed to go to Miami for the spring break, since my birthday was the first day of it. I imagined tanning on the beach and take beautiful pictures of where I was and getting to celebrate with my friends when I got back. Most of all, I wanted to see my best friend, Eva, who moved to New Jersey at the end of last year and I haven’t seen her in a few months. I wanted to have a sleepover with her and bake a cake and watch a movie and all the fun things you can think of doing with your best friend.
When my parents talked to me, I realized I wasn’t allowed to see any of my friends, and that I should stay 6 feet away from people at all times. I felt ruined. I was even supposed to go to a birthday party this weekend in an indoor water park upstate! Next Monday, I start online school, which I hope won’t be bad. Schools are closed until at least April 20th, but a part of me doesn’t really want to go back to school.
Anyways, my mom made a schedule of things we’re supposed to do in a day. We have to wake up at 8am(but it’s flexible), breakfast is until 9, and then we go on a family walk with our dog until at least 10. Today we went to Cloves Lakes park, but we had to drive there, because my dog gets all scared when we try to walk her. And then when we get back, we have “Academic Time” until 12, and then we have lunch and social time until 1:30. That basically means we can facetime and text our friends or whatever, since we can’t see them in person. Actually, some people I know are allowed out of their house and can see their other friends.
Well 1:30 to 3:30 I think is reading and writing time, and I usually make myself tea or decaf coffee and sit on my couch and just read. I usually don’t write, but I guess I am now. After that we have our choice time, where we can do whatever we want( not exactly whatever I guess, but tv, baking, etc). I bake a lot when I’m bored, over the past few days, I made chocolate chip cookies and a cake. I’m scared I’ll use up all our food supply on it though. I finished the margarine yesterday, but we have another on downstairs thank god.
After choice time we have exercise time, which everyone pretty much forgets about. After that our( me and my brother)parents make us do meditation then dinner and go to sleep. I think we have to be in bed by 8:30. Me and my dad usually stay up and watch a movie. We’ve been having a Star Wars marathon. Oh and I forgot to mention, I’ve had an on and off fever these past couple days, but I don’t feel sick. On Friday my head hurt and I was a little nauseous, but that’s it.
At the beginning of the outbreak, I would make jokes about it with friends and act like it wasn’t a big deal. When someone would cough or sneeze, one of us would say, “You have the coronavirus!” and all of us would laugh along with it. When it reached the U.S, we still joked about it, but I was personally a little scared. Then it reached New York, and all of us became pretty paranoid. Everyone started bringing hand sanitizer with them to school, people started to stock up on food, toilet paper, etc. I kept saying I wanted schools to close, but only because I thought I could see my friends every day and watch lots of tv and sleep until 9am. But when the mayor actually closed schools, and my parents sat down and discussed the issue with me, I realized it wouldn’t be as fun as I thought.
For starters, I’m turning 13 on April 10th, which is pretty soon, and I was supposed to go to Miami for the spring break, since my birthday was the first day of it. I imagined tanning on the beach and take beautiful pictures of where I was and getting to celebrate with my friends when I got back. Most of all, I wanted to see my best friend, Eva, who moved to New Jersey at the end of last year and I haven’t seen her in a few months. I wanted to have a sleepover with her and bake a cake and watch a movie and all the fun things you can think of doing with your best friend.
When my parents talked to me, I realized I wasn’t allowed to see any of my friends, and that I should stay 6 feet away from people at all times. I felt ruined. I was even supposed to go to a birthday party this weekend in an indoor water park upstate! Next Monday, I start online school, which I hope won’t be bad. Schools are closed until at least April 20th, but a part of me doesn’t really want to go back to school.
Anyways, my mom made a schedule of things we’re supposed to do in a day. We have to wake up at 8am(but it’s flexible), breakfast is until 9, and then we go on a family walk with our dog until at least 10. Today we went to Cloves Lakes park, but we had to drive there, because my dog gets all scared when we try to walk her. And then when we get back, we have “Academic Time” until 12, and then we have lunch and social time until 1:30. That basically means we can facetime and text our friends or whatever, since we can’t see them in person. Actually, some people I know are allowed out of their house and can see their other friends.
Well 1:30 to 3:30 I think is reading and writing time, and I usually make myself tea or decaf coffee and sit on my couch and just read. I usually don’t write, but I guess I am now. After that we have our choice time, where we can do whatever we want( not exactly whatever I guess, but tv, baking, etc). I bake a lot when I’m bored, over the past few days, I made chocolate chip cookies and a cake. I’m scared I’ll use up all our food supply on it though. I finished the margarine yesterday, but we have another on downstairs thank god.
After choice time we have exercise time, which everyone pretty much forgets about. After that our( me and my brother)parents make us do meditation then dinner and go to sleep. I think we have to be in bed by 8:30. Me and my dad usually stay up and watch a movie. We’ve been having a Star Wars marathon. Oh and I forgot to mention, I’ve had an on and off fever these past couple days, but I don’t feel sick. On Friday my head hurt and I was a little nauseous, but that’s it.
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