January 4th, 2021
Today is the first day back to school for everyone in 7 weeks (5 from shutdown, 2 from winter break). It looks like the majority of teachers are happy school is back but students seemed to be the opposite. Walking through the halls it seemed like I could overhear everyone whining about being back, which was odd to me. One person I know who hated our online transition. He talked about how even though he used to be excited for this day, now that he was actually there, he wishes he was online. It seems the "break" from in person has changed people's minds on online. I've heard of people even signing up for our schools online second semester.
I could see people visually also tired with having in person again. In my English class, while only my teacher was excited, my whole class seemed to be bored. They must've been super bored since they were messing around our shared google jamboard we all had. I also saw this during our lunch. Usually we have 3 areas for lunch this year because of COVID: One section for Freshmen, one for Sophomores, and one for Juniors,Seniors. The last week before we left, our food drive took the junior and senior space so most peple moved into the other two areas to sit. The school staff must've hated coming back so much that after seven weeks, they still hadn't put down the tables. I was expecting them to put it down by now but instead I was forced to sit somewhere else again.
Then after school, for the first time in 7 weeks, I felt tired. When I was going to school that morning I couldn't believe me in the past got tired and took a nap almost every single day. Those words came back to bite me in the butt starting 5th hour; I could barely keep my eyes open. It didn't help that everyone else was complaining about how long it felt compared to a normal school day. Then after school while I was going home I thought about how I didn't have that much hw and could finish it and then play games, but that didn't turn out the way it was supposed to. I ended up on my phone for about 2 hours and taking 10 minute naps, only getting woken up when someone came into my room to tell me something. I hate that I do that because I remember someone I looked up to talking about how he should nap but it felt like a waste of time to him. As in there could be more productive stuff being done than sleep. Even knowing this, I find myself taking naps all the time.
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