My First Year of Highschool

I want to tell you my experience of my first year at high school. Of course it was different to my other years because I was starting Secondary school, a whole new other journey! My experience might be similar to yours or completely different, you decide.

As soon as I came from my holidays from India, I got told there was a new virus called Corona Virus that has been rumored to start. I thought these were probably one of those fake rumor's or conspiracy's that people don't really care about, but I seemed to be wrong, completely wrong. As we all know it the virus Covid-19, has now been a major outbreak across the world, and it's all the world is talking about nowadays.

So as a normal person, I started high school, year 7, which was pretty exciting, but and the same time pretty scary. My number one fear were the big, huge, high schoolers in year 9 and 10. Weird as it may sound, at that time it was scary! Meeting new teachers wasn't that bad, and making new friends wasn't as hard as I thought. Now one year later, I have plenty of friends that I can trust and look for whenever I need them. The important thing is that if you want to survive high school, you have to have a good group of friends and teachers how you can trust to help you get through every obstacle. Without my teachers and friends I will have never had such a good year of year 7, considering it was the whole covid-19 situation.

After a few months, everything changed. Covid-19 got more worse, and we were forced into lockdown. Online schooling had started where the teachers assign us work to do, and we have to complete it online at home. I missed school, but I liked getting up a bit late, and didn't have to travel to school. But at the same time, going to school was a different type of fun, where you can hang out with friends, make jokes in class, make the teachers laugh, and just get through school on a happy note, looking forward for tomorrow when I can go back.

But online schooling had stolen all that fun, and we were forced to be stuck at home, and to communicate online, and not face to face. Our education was having a struggle, it was impossible to go out with family or friends, all my extra curriculum activities were stopped, and travelling overseas was also obviously banned. So my life was just on hangover for a couple of months.

Until finally, the government took action and the spread slowed down. We were allowed back in school and some of my activities had started. Oh, how it felt to be back at school to meet my friends to start that same old routine again. I thought life was slowly getting back to normal, and I was right!

My birthday, on the 30th of November, went so smoothly that I didn't even realize that that virus was still outside, waiting to strike again. I turned 13 a teenager, and a few months later we could go out wherever we wanted, there were no more restrictions. Christmas was normal, and so was New Years. Most people were happy again but for some I know, would've had those family member losses, may have lost their jobs, or just couldn't cope with stress and depression.

I know, and we know the year 2020 has been a hard year for all of us, but we have passed it together, and here we stand ready to fight of anything that comes our way, even if it is another virus. The year 2021 will hopefully be a better year, with rumor's that vaccines for covid-19 are here, but I don't know, it could be one of those rumor's again, that we think is false but turn out to be true. I know for a fact that my first year of high school might be different to yours, very different, cause I don't think that anyone might have experienced a virus threatening to kill us, schooling for the first time turning to online schooling, and a wide number of countries going into lockdown.

Like I think it this way, if covid never happened we would have never stayed home for such a long time, covid has allowed us to be with family and spend time with them rather than going and doing our normal routine.

But covid-19 has not gone completely, and if we want to stop the spread than we have to do this together. We are in this together, and we will get through this together.