On March 13th, 2020 me and my friends were doing work in class before the bell rang. This class we hated the most. The teacher was annoying, we were hungry and super tired. But midway packing up our Vice-Principal came on the PA system and started speaking about covid. He announced that march break would be extended for another two weeks making it three weeks.

I remember everyone kinda cheered. We were super happy that we got two extra weeks of school. But at the same time, we learned that the janitors don’t clean the desks a lot and let me tell you we were grossed out. My gal friend who was laying her head on the desk jumped up with such a gross face.

But what we didn’t know was that it would be a final day at school. No prom no graduation it kinda sucked. The first month of quarantine went smoothly. No school at all since the school board was still trying to figure out the whole virus we didn’t even have online till late April. I just enjoyed sleeping in and not having to worry about school or drama. But my friends on the other hand hated it and they got super bored. They actually wanted to go back to school.

Then April came along and I started to get a little bored. I was taking a break from writing since I had really bad writers burn out. I was getting all my school work done because what they were giving us was so damn easy. The only thing that sucked about April was my 18th birthday. I couldn’t do anything, couldn’t hang out with friends. So I was pretty much stuck at my house. The only great thing was that I got a leopard gecko which I love very much.

May and June is when I started searching for new hobbies I could do because I was now bored and I started cleaning the house. I started painting and drawing again but then I got bored again. So I started looking at crocheting videos. I went out that weekend, bought all the stuff I needed, watched a whole bunch of videos and then bam I knew how to crochet. Well, the easiest one.

I did make half a blanket but then got bored again. As you can clearly tell I get bored easily. But I started writing, working out and cleaning the house and binge-watching a whole bunch of shows. So when everything goes back to normal I will be behind on so many shows because of how many I watched. I must admit some shows kinda dumb some shows really good. Right now I’m currently binge watching Friends for the second time pretty funny show.

It’s now October and I can officially say that march break has lasted 7 whole months. I always make that joke to my parents because it feels like a march break. But I will admit I have been home so long that I keep thinking it’s may when it’s not may at all.

Quarantine is starting to get to me now. My depression has gotten worse, my social anxiety is through the roof and my general anxiety is just crashing down on me. When everything gets back to normal it’s gonna take time for me to get back to normal. I will say that covid has made me learn some things. Before covid, I didn’t really go out a lot like shopping and parties and stuff but now I wanna get out I wanna go shopping I want to get out of the house. I went to Walmart the other day and just going there made me feel so much better.

I guess when people say be in the present don’t think about the future it’s true in many ways. I have now learned that you have to spend time with friends and family and go out and not worry about life or maybe you will be stuck in the house for 7+ months. But I do wish that someone would tell me that on March 13th I would be bored as hell for the next 7 months of my life.