Saniyah Williams

This pandemic has had its ups and downs for a lot of people. For me, it hasn’t been very good. At first, I thought of quarantine as a nice vacation but my mental health has taken a big toll from this pandemic. This is because when the pandemic started I never expected it to come to where we are now. I thought this would be a short-term thing and instead, it changed how I did things in my regular life. From how my schedule is, where I shop, how I shop, who I see from day to day. I stayed inside most of the time, I never went out because my family and I were scared about the coronavirus going around. This made me talk to my friends a lot less. I lost my connections to a lot of family and friends. I would sleep a lot more, do a lot less. Eventually, I lost motivation to do a lot of activities or to go out at all. I thought it would all get better when school started but that was not the case. A lot of things happened in my personal life, a lot of tough times with myself, my family, or friends. School wasn’t helping. The teachers and the students were doing things they had never done before. This was hard for both the staff and the students. Trying new things we never thought would have to happen. I couldn’t find a balance between school and my home life. I still am perfecting it and, I’m still going through a lot of ups and downs now, but I have gotten a lot of support and trying to get past all of it. Overall this pandemic has been a learning experience for me and people everywhere.