By day 2 my focus on online learning had "waned".
Some neighbours are willing to shop for their elderly or "immunocompromised" friends.
People have seemed to change with some kind of spell cast on them, "compelling" them to hoard toilet paper and meat.
I deleted TikTok to try to "keep the ball rolling" with my projects. (idiom)
Extended spring break, is a term used to "disguise" the fact that there is a deadly pandemic spreading across the world.
Our academic classes "dwindle", we get more free time to spend with friends during the second semester of high school.
The whole coronavirus "predicament" has affected my life in ways I could have not imagined just a mere month ago.
Today, quotes on Facebook and letters from their school administrators imbue teens with hope that they can "thrive" in isolation
The truth somewhat "daunts" us.
On a phone call to Huntsville, Alabama, my mother corrects herself when she "sputters" the word fear.
I'm a theater "major".
But now, I find myself actually "venturing" out of my room and interacting with others more than ever during this isolation
At home, I'm trying to "grapple" with the future less. Yet no one knows how to.
I don't think I'll like home-schooling because I always "procrastinate" a lot.
Already "apprehensive" parents were now in a panic.
The one "silver lining" to this situation is that at least the beaches won't be closed anytime soon.
Εven when I had to physically go to school, I mostly kept to myself, ever the "introvert".
Today, quotes on Facebook and letters from their school administrators "imbue" teens with hope that they can thrive in isolation.
to force
shy, unsociable person
difficult situation
to decrease, diminish, get smaller
anxious, nervous
to decline over time
to continue a discussion, progress, or other action rather than stall or stop.
to attempt to control, to fight with sth/sb.
to utter hastily or explosively in confusion or excitement.
to dare to go somewhere or do sth, usually risky.
A student specializing in specific field.
to intimidate, to scare
to pervade, to influence as if by dyeing
to flourish, to prosper
having the immune system impaired or weakened (as by drugs or illness)
to put off intentionally the doing of something that should be done
to conceal
bright side, a consoling aspect of a difficult situation