To think my college experience couldn’t get worse. I thought I was having a hard time with classes on campus now I have to take classes online. While at college I always wanted to come home, but now that I’m stuck at home I want to go back to college. Before getting the email I hadn’t really focused too much on the Coronavirus since it wasn’t in Maine when we had left for spring break. I had been hearing mixed things about the virus. People were telling me the flu was worse but yet schools are shutting down and states are going on lock down. I thought people were overreacting. I’m still not up to date, but I do know a lot of people have been dying and a lot of people are terrified.  I think the strangest thing about this whole thing now is being stuck at home. 

This quarantine has been strange. I haven’t learned much about myself or had some type of spiritual awakening. I haven’t learned too much about my community either. I have learned that if my family is together for too long we all tend to get annoyed with each other. I’ve used this time procrastinating doing homework and painting and drawing again. I’ve also been catching up on some sleep. I’ve been trying to do things that I didn’t have time to do while at college or haven’t done in awhile. The main thing being art. I’ve started to paint again which is very relaxing. I’ve learned that this is something that helps me clear my mind when I need to take a break or a good thing to do before getting ready for the night as a calm down session. I’m not very good at art but you don’t need to be to enjoy it. 

As for my community, I haven’t noticed too much. The only time I’m out is if we are taking our dog to the dog park or going to Walmart to get some essentials. I’ve noticed that despite having to keep social distance and trying to stay home, a lot of people have been out walking up and down the streets. I feel like I’ve seen more people walking these past couple weeks than I have the whole summer. People are trying to combat their boredom and finding something productive to do. A lot of people are still going out in public and going to stores which is surprising to me since a large portion of our community is elderly or senior citizens. 

My family is a whole nether story. My sister is home, my dad is home, my mom is home, and I’m home. We have never been stuck so long together for this long of a time for quite awhile. Even when I was home over break we weren’t all home the whole day together. My parents would be at work or my sister would be at school. We are all getting easily annoyed with each other. We also have a new puppy which adds to the stress of things. I cant count how many times my dad as cleaned the house over the past two weeks. I’ve noticed that my dad isn’t the type of person to stay in the house the whole day. That is something he needs to work on. My mother is mainly worried about my grandparents getting it because they are so old, and because of that we haven’t been able to go see her.