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• 2020-03-18

  Learning Remotely during COVID

  Online learning has not been the easiest thing for me. I would prefer to do school off the screen instead, mainly because I learn better when I write things down on paper, and I am on the screen for many other extra curricular activities. Other obstacles about online school is that I always have internet problems so might miss something important in class or I cant do my homework when the internet is down so I have to wait for it to work again. Some benefits for me of learning virtually are that you can wear comfortable cloths to school instead of a uniform and I can wake up later to go to school because I don't have to drive there. My school is a 30 minute drive from my house so I get to sleep for an extra 30 minutes or more. My school has opened again but I am not allowed to go until the vaccine comes out. So I will probably be doing remote learning for a little while longer.
• 2020-12-25

  A COVID-19 Christmas

  This Christmas was very different from any other Christmas. I am a 14 year old girl and I live with my parents and my two sisters. Every year my family goes skiing right after christmas for about two weeks but this year we couldnt go. My family and I stayed home for christmas eve and christmas. On christmas eve we had a home cooked meal and played boardgames together. The next day it was a very quiet christmas, we didnt do much, we made hot chocolate and opened presents from eachother. My birthday was the 28th right after christmas and it was very similar. I was kind of sad over the holidays because we couldnt see family and we couldnt travel.
• 2020-02-20

  My Life in February before COVID-19

  My name is Athena Errico and I am an 8th grade student at Oaks Christian currently, but at the time I was in seventh grade. It was January-February, I love to ski and I have been skiing my whole life, recently I have been trying to get into racing. I had just heard of the corona outbreak in China and was instantly worried. I had my first compition coming up for skiing and my parents told me I couldnt go because it was Chinese New Year and many people from China go to that specific ski mountain every year to celebrate. A few weeks later at school I had heard about schools in the area shutting down due to corona. Then about a week later I noticed my teachers canceling quizzes and giving very little homework. At lunch many off the kids talked about corona and the group of people who went with a teacher named Mrs. Hacker to Italy over break, there where roomers they all got COVID. Then a girl was not in school and many poeple thought she had COVID. Thats when I new things where going to change. COVID! COVID! COVID! that was all anyone ever talked about. Soon my parents wouldnt let me go to the grocery stores with them and wouldn't let me go to friends houses unless they new the parents well. Then my school shut down and that's when everything got really strange.