The Story of the Remote Students: Snow in Mid-April

By Stella Rosewood
== Story #1: Snow in Mid-April ==
I woke up at about 7:30 this morning to be able to get ready to go to school. You heard me. REAL school. I was going for practice Shark Tank presentations and then staying for another hour and a half for social studies. I walked into the living room.
“It’s white out there,” I said. It was supposed to snow last night and it most certainly did. 
“Look at the tree in the backyard!” my brother said.
“Not right now,” I told him. 
“You don’t have to go to school today,” my dad said.
“Wait, what?” I asked. “A snow day?”
“No, a remote day.”
“What?!” I said. 
That meant I didn’t get to go to school! I was really disappointed for a while. Then I played a screen recording of our orchestra playing one of our songs. That made me feel a little better. Then I made another story for whatever reason. After that, I ate breakfast and got ready for school. I logged onto my Shark Tank group’s Google Meet to practice our script like we were supposed to. 
“Hi,” Della said.
“Hi,” I replied. “Sorry I’m a little late.” I was actually only about a minute late since I believe it was 8:36, and class starts at 8:35. So I guess it didn’t really matter. 
We practiced our Shark Tank script, then decided what to wear for the actual presentations. We decided on our school shirt (the one from last year with our names and our graduation year on it) and black pants. Our other team member Blossom had to leave because of an appointment, so Della and I got to talk for a bit. I started talking about Pokemon Journeys, and Della joined in. I mentioned the episode that I call “the weirdest episode of all time” and how I will NOT watch it. Like, ever. Della laughed at that. 
“But it’s true!” I said, laughing as well.
We talked until the end of the class period, then I said bye and went to my next class, social studies. I was really excited because my social studies class is crazy. Why was I excited about craziness? Because my classmates love to type silly and crazy stuff in chat when we get the chance. So we can say that I was really psyched! I logged on to the meet and found more of my classmates than I’ve ever seen for a long time! My class is huge — 28 people — so there were so many squares on the Google Meet! Just as I predicted, the chat started to go crazy right away. 
Yeah, pretty weird and chaotic. As I say, welcome to 5th period! The conversation topics got pretty weird/interesting/random. Here’s a good example: (I asked about why we were talking about trees)
Emma: We're talking about trees because this is social studies
Me: XD
Mhm, pretty silly! As a result, I was pretty happy that morning. I finally got to experience social studies again, which I hadn't been able to do for so long because of the school going all-in, AND I got to see a bunch of my friends too! It was really fun. That afternoon, I had pretty much the same experience. It was more people than I’ve seen in such a long time! Especially STEAM. Alex, Mike, and I are the only full-remote kids in my STEAM class period, so it was quite a change!  
Soon enough, the day was over. After talking with my friends on a Google Meet for a little bit, I logged off and closed my computer. Done for the day! So that was my day of having lots of remote company, and it was great!
The very excited remote kid is out!
== Story #2: (coming soon) ==
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