This year, it’s still Covid-19. Last year it was also Covid-19. So was 3rd grade. I’m in 5th grade now, in the very last year of elementary. It’s weird to just end elementary school with masks and different ways of how school works. Although I’ve been through this for almost 3 years, it still seems a bit disappointing. In the last 18 months, to be honest, everything was fine. For example, all of us are healthy and happy, we got more privileges for things, and we were always a bit busy(not really in the summer though, of course).  And, we’re pretty much always entertained by modern tools or activities. For me, I wasn’t very much bothered by this virus. Like, all of my family is healthy and I’m keeping on with life. But still, this virus did affect me and my body. For example, my eyesight has lowered because we were kept home a lot, and that made us do more virtual stuff. Another example is that we couldn’t see some of our family members that are all the way on the other side of the world. And my family usually goes back each summer. Because lots of the airports in China are closed, this way, I wouldn’t see my grandparents for 3 summers! Even though lots of things happened, and everything isn’t normal, we still have to try to stop the virus. And that means that everyone could just do a little work and this may stop earlier. It’s really easy, even though you’re vaccinated, you can still wear a mask to prevent the 10% percent of the possibility of getting covid-19. Let’s just think that this will help stop covid-19 sooner or later.

One of the things that really stood out to me is maybe going back to school for full days, and having a class with 24 people in 4th grade. This is because we’ve been doing half-year of virtual in 3rd grade and another half-year of half-days and half-class(cohorts) in 4th grade. This makes a great advantage on doing longer days school, with a bigger class, and understanding how full-school days are gonna work. This makes me think that this year will be a bit not as confusing as last year because we already know what school is probably gonna be like. Having half-days was very hard for me because my best friend was in a different cohort than me so I was very lonely for a really long time. This also affected me in being a little more “me” in school. And at that time, I got a new friend… My cat, Coral. This made me a lot happier, not only because I wasn’t that lonely anymore(well, my brother was always there to make me mad), but this is my first pet in my life!

One thing I’m looking forward to is probably learning more educational stuff and then moving on to middle school. But, I’m not saying that I really want to leave elementary, it’s just that I have a feeling that middle school may be interesting. A lot of people say that middle school is better than elementary and high school is better than middle school, and so on. Also, my mom said that middle school has periods and in each subject, you can probably learn more and get better at it because the teacher who is teaching it is really focused and good at it to teach that subject. So this might means there’s a chance that I’ll get better at school. Of course, there is still lots of homework there, waiting for me to do them, but I still look forward to seeing what middle school is like( it’s scary).

This is what I look forward to and what happened in the past. All these things are what I think, these things are what I look forward to. So that means you don’t have to think the same. But there’s still a lot to look forward to than just middle school, and there’s a lot more than just cohorts and getting a cat that happened in the last 18 months, but this will just be what I’m sharing in this entry.