Mostly I’ve Been Sad, But Then I Get Really Happy
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I’m getting more time with my family and especially with my dad. He finally has some days off.
Mostly, I’ve been sad, but then I get really happy. It’s just weird not being close to people that I really want to be by. That’s the sad part. The happy part is that we get to do a bunch of fun stuff. I play outside. I ride my bike. We haven’t done that in a long time because of school. So I’m happy to be home.
Number of U. S. public and private schools closed for the remainder of the school year: 124,000
Number of K-through-12 students now being homeschooled: 55.1 million
We’ve been doing surprises. Like, my parents will take me and my sister somewhere we don’t know about. When we got my guinea pig, they made it something like, “We’re going to Dad’s work to feed the fish.” But we didn’t. We went to the pet store and got my guinea pig.
I mostly like holding my guinea pig. That’s kind of my comfort animal.
Sometimes I don’t know if people are going to be sick, or if they’ll bring it into our family, or if the guinea pig’s going to be sick, or if something’s going to happen that we don’t expect.
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