With cases of deaths from covid raising each day, people start to wonder wether a cure or vaccine will be developed. Especially with school starting back up around the corner, parents start to also wonder if teaching will return to in person or stay virtual. The county soon announced that teaching will stay virtual. When becoming a senior, I did not think that I would spend the year online and not able to experience what other seniors before me did. This being my first time doing virtual learning, It was difficult for me to get used to since I did not use computers much but sooner or later I was able to figure out how to use it. Having friends in the same class also helped a lot because they were able to help me with any questions I had.

Although the first semester was difficult to adapt to the second semester was easier. Being able to wake up a couple minutes before class started was such a great thing. I could wake up, join the class meeting noting having to worry about the teacher or the other students seeing me, and sometimes go back to sleep if I was too tired. With the semester coming to an end, me and my friends started talking about graduation and it would be done since it’s an important part of every high schooler. The school would soon decide that they will be doing an in person graduation with every attendance wearing a mask. The week during the graduation we were required to come back to the school to receive our award and practice for the actual graduation. Going back to school and being able to see friends I haven’t seen in a while was great.

When graduation came, I felt proud of myself for making it this far. Being the first person in my family to graduate high school and move onto college during a worldwide pendamic, I felt that I had made my parents proud. Walking across the stage and receiving my diploma was sort of embarrassing since I’m a shy person with many people watching but I was also excited and happy. During the summer I spent a lot of it working my first job with my dad. Working almost everyday of the week, it felt like summer went by super fast and next thing I know I was applying for college. Now here I am, not knowing whaat will happen next and just hoping the pandemic will be over soon.

My last memory before the pandemic outbreak was being in my physics class ready to go home. Other students in the class were joking about the decease because it has yet speeded throughout the world, I just laughed along because I personally wasn’t worried about it or think would spread throughout the world in such little days. My teacher announced to the class that we won’t be coming to school on the first day on next week. I didn’t think much of it and just thought we had an extra day added to our weekend, little did I know it would be the last day physically being in school. I did not pay attention to any news or story about the decease already spreading to the United States either.

Thinking that I would be returning to school soon I was stressed because I had not completed any of the assignments, I then started asking around for help. My problem was soon resolved when the school and county announced that classes would be moved to online until further notice for us safety and the others. With the pandemic getting worser each day, we were required to be quarantined and not go out unless necessary. Not being able to go out, my video game and my phone was the only thing that kept me entertain. One of the thing I did a lot during quarantine was play a new game called Warzone. Still not really worried about the pandemic, me and my friends would still hang out not having a clue that the pandemic just gets worse each day passes.