Ryan Kluessendorf

Friday March 13th, 2020 as the rumors flooded the halls Ryan Kluessendorf and his friends were caught up in the buzz about a supposed two week break from school due to the new virus circulating. “We had been talking about [COVID] all week because that’s when it started to become more publicized.” Kluessendorf and his friends were excited for the prospect of two weeks off, but the excitement was short lived as administration made an announcement on the intercom that there would be no lockdown. However, just hours later, while working on a project in his last class of the day, Engineering Support Technology, there was roughly 10 minutes left of school when all of a sudden administration “sent an email to all of the teachers to inform them we were going into quarantine.” As some students were scared for what was to come, he felt a rush of excitement. “We didn’t do much schoolwork,” students were given an update stating quarantine would be, “extended to a month [and] this is when they tried doing [distance learning],” but since grades weren’t going to change from what they were before, “no one did schoolwork.” This turned out to be a “four month long summer,” and to keep busy “we rode our bikes 14 miles a day doing random things throughout town”.