MY ONE WISH Natalie Alaniz 6th Grade • Sawyer School
They started talking about a virus, coronavirus, or COVID-19 and I was like, it, it won’t last or it will be something small. But then lots of things started to change and now we’re stuck in our homes not able to go outside only if you need to buy necessary things. My life changed from day to night. Things are new now and very different but now my family and I and everyone, well we have to adapt to the new things that are happening. I started remote learning and things are new and weird. I never thought I would be experiencing this. Well, let’s talk about the beginning a long time ago, well that’s what it seems like. Many people would say we have years in our house but we don't. We have just a few months. Something that some people may have experienced is that when we could go outside, like nothing is wrong, people wouldn’t go outside but now that we can't go outside people want to go outside. Well, personally when I went to school before they closed I wasn't worried. But then when I was at home more I started to hear the news more and started to get scared and worried saying “What if my family gets it or my friends.” As they announced more cases every day I got more scared because it was something new and I didn't know anything about or when it was going to end. But then I started to do research and I started to calm down. When schools closed I was happy and sad. Thinking about it I miss school, but I got so used to it. But then we couldn’t go outside and that didn't make me happy but at
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