The Current Carneta

Yes I have started doing something I never thought was possible. Staying in this pandemic has me doing a lot of new different things. During this pandemic my family and I decided to put wood floors all around our house. I didn’t think I was going to remove the carpet and move all the big furniture. After all it was hard but fun.

Being home almost every day has me keeping my room and the whole house organized and clean. I’ve even helped my dad with our backyard by watering our plants and mowing the lawn. Since I don’t have much to do, I started to hike and discovered new, cool places and an exercise plan.

This pandemic has made me and my family get closer. Sometimes we have movie nights and my mom and I cook together, which I think is a good thing to do because it brings us closer. I’ve helped out with so many new things around the house, and I've even learned new things too while still being safe and staying inside./Yamilet Resendez Ceballos

My sleep schedule is very different now from when I had to wake up early and go to school. My bedtime was always around 10 or sometimes on rough days earlier. I now can't sleep for the life of me, I tend to fall asleep now around 2 or later.

A new responsibility I’ve had around the house is watching my siblings. Both my parents work and we don't have anywhere to take the kids. This summer I have to stay home and watch them. It's my new job even though I want to get a real job and not stay home anymore.

I have not stayed in touch with any of my friends. I did get in touch with an old one that I’d lost. But all the friends I had before we left I am not friends with anymore. I do feel different towards all of my friends but it has nothing to do with the pandemic, things were already changing between us before school ended.

Eating is something I’ve done very differently, I never in my life thought to eat healthy but in the beginning of quarantine I ate all the time even when I wasn't hungry just bored. I started to gain extra weight that I didn't want so my mom told me I should try Keto. Keto has done a lot of good things for me. I feel better all the time, I am not as tired and I always have more energy. I also haven't been as grumpy.

The pandemic changed me because I no longer can hang out with most of my friends. I can stay in touch with most of them by texting or us hanging out, but I have most definitely lost touch with a lot of friends. I feel like now they were just school friends. I still have extremely close friends that I would never want to lose.

This pandemic has changed me in many ways. The biggest change I’'d say would be my sleep due to the fact that most nights I go to sleep around 4 a.m. and wake up around 3 p.m. or I take a long nap during the day and I'm up all night. This pandemic has turned me into an owl.

During this pandemic tragedy, I have discovered some skills that I didn’t know I had in me. For example, I started to take pictures of all sorts of things from different angles. It helps find the perfect picture. At the beginning of the pandemic, my grades started to go down until I told myself that I need to figure out a way to get my grades up.I started to get A’s in all my classes. Not only did the pandemic help me with my classes, but it made me more organized in my house. I started to clean my room more often. The bathroom looks whiter than ever, and the living room is starting to look luxurious with how clean it is. I also started to love myself because I have more time to myself.

I do as a matter of fact have a new schedule regarding my sleep. I try to go to bed early, but I get up at 7:30. I mean that's later than how it was in the beginning of the year, but now I consider it to be early. Now that we have online school, school ends earlier for me day to day and with that, it gives me new responsibilities that I didn't have before. For example, my dog had puppies and now I have to take care of not only my dog, but I have to take care of all of her seven puppies. It's a big, big responsibility given that they are super small and that there are so many of them. I feed them, bathe them, play with them, etc. Meanwhile, I walk my dog three times a day and run two miles with her every morning.