"Normal" Life

By Maggie Koay

For the first time since the first semester of my Sophomore year, school life has started becoming normal again. Well, as normal as it can be at this unpredictable and unprecedented time in our lives. 

Intramurals is the temporary replacement of school sports. Of course, it’s not the same as having our usual varsity sports and competing in big tournaments like the Island Shootout or ACSC, but it will have to suffice for now. It’s amusing to hear people talking about how their game went yesterday and see them rushing excitedly with their sports bag and shoes towards the gym after school, just like pre-covid times. Sadly, other than intramural sports, there isn’t much going on after school and on Friday nights like how it used to be. Beside Intramurals and AP B-Blocks, students have to go home right away after school. There’s still no late Friday nights in school, Music and Monopoly in the student centre, or class parties.

The class of 2020 is finally going to experience our first (hopefully) and last JSB, or Junior Senior Banquet, which will be held in the Harbor Hall but just as special nonetheless. We are also so fortunate to be able to go on our Senior Sneak (again, hopefully). We’ve also recently been allowed to leave school during our lunch break to find out that it's actually much tougher than it seems to finish our food and be back in school on time.

We have lost so much of our school life such as sport trips and school events because of the virus. But at the same time, there is so much to be grateful for right now as restrictions are gradually lifted, and we still get to experience some of the best parts of senior year.