Hey, so have you ever been bored and stuck home quarantined with nowhere to go, not even school? But then you get school back, but online school, not regular school, and then you have to do everything online? Well if not, I will tell you what that's kinda like for me.
In my city and all around the world, we are stuck at home in quarantine and have to do school online because of a virus called the Coronavirus. There are many things that we are having to do in distance learning/online school but, today I will only be talking about one. That one thing that we are having to do, is read a book and meet weekly with a group of other classmates that are reading the same book. But first, let’s start this off by talking about what book we are reading.
My book group and I are reading this really good and interesting book. It’s a mystery book called “Patron Saints of Nothing” and as I said earlier, it’s extremely interesting. I’ve really enjoyed this book since the first day that I started reading it, the book just caught my eye and I couldn't help but keep reading. Before I go any further, let me tell you a bit of a backstory of what I’ve read so far. I’ll make sure not to spoil just in case you want to read it.
So, the main character is a boy named Jay, he is Filipino but lives in America, and is a senior. Something happens and he tries to figure it out. In my opinion, I say that everything just gets suspicious. But, that’s all I’ll say and I hope that you have the courage to go read this great book on your own. Now I’ll get into what my book group and I are doing with the book and our book clubs.
As I said before, we are reading “Patron Saints of Nothing” and it is kinda hard to read when you are in a group. I say this because we read at different paces and it is hard to be on the same page when we only meet once a week for our book club meetings.
In our book club meetings, we meet up as a group and talk about our book. Now, you may be wondering how do we meet since we are having to do everything over the computer? Well, we have a book club meeting once a week on an app called Zoom for about 30 minutes.
I personally don't like that we have to do online school because of Corona being all around the world. I also don't like being stuck at home quarantined and not being able to go anywhere.
There is one more thing that I would actually like to touch on before I end this. I want to talk about how I have experienced something that I never thought that I would do while being stuck at home. The thing that I have been doing is reading a lot and it’s really surprising to me because I usually only read when I have to. Now, I have been reading books a lot more. At the moment I am just reading “Patron Saints of Nothing” with my group and I am having fun with it.
I also enjoy having our book club meetings. At our first meeting, we just decided how we were going to work out how many pages we should have done by our next meeting so we can't spoil the book.
Now that you heard about my short story about what we have to do during online school, I now want to ask you if this has ever happened to you, what did you do during online school? Or, even just what you have been doing while being stuck at home?