As the relieving day of Friday approaches, I usually begin to make plans with my friends. This may include going out to dinner, or hanging out at someone's house, taking pictures, etc. The weekend is appeared to be a magical way of stress relief when really, it's the quite opposite. Sure, 2 days of not going to school are enjoyable, but that does not mean there is no work in the slightest.
As the day of Saturday approaches, I wake up as though there is no school to complete, and am filled with excitement for the plans my friends and I have made. Eating breakfast without worry, watching Netflix, sleeping in a little more, taking extra long showers, etc. As the hours pass by tediously, the closer it gets to the "main event". Finally, I'm with my friends enjoying the so-called "break from school". 11pm hits. I do my daily check on schoology, you know, just in case I missed anything minor. I then see an overwhelmingly long list of assignments that are due tonight and tomorrow night (Sunday). Not only is the list long, but the assignments are very time-demanding. There goes my entire wave of stress-relief right down the drain. Most of the time I cut my fun short, and either leave early to quickly rush through the schoolwork, which is of course completely ineffective in my learning, or I may have luckily throughout my Chromebook to my friend's house in case this may have happened. Cramming all of the school work in by 11:59, and finally being free, except, Sunday then approaches. I am given another list of assignments that are due Sunday night. The message I am trying to display here is that there really is no break from school, it is a never-ending cycle. The short amount of time I actually DO get to exercise my social life, I just end up being overridden by busywork.
I agree that it feels as if a lot of days are the exact same and just on repeat. School has been especially busy and difficult this year in a pandemic, so it has been much harder to have social lives. Even if we did have time, there is not too much that is open, and a lot of people regularly see their grandparents and do not want to risk getting them sick, so the days seem to just be the same thing over and over.
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