Time of Online Connections
By Ruohan, age 9
“We can’t go out. It’s a shelter in place.” The TV roared. I didn’t really take notice of it. But soon, I realized. “I can’t have playdates with my friends,” I realized. “You do ballet on Zoom.” My mom said, taking no notice. After ballet, I had an idea. “That’s it!” I said to myself. “Zoom. I’ll do zoom with my friends. But after another while, we started working on a story. I was on screen all the time. What else was there to do, but computer and read? My basic daily schedule was this: morning, homework, afternoon, read, night, computer.
But anyway, my friends discovered another way to connect without Zoom. Chat, on the Google docs. Our story got longer and longer.
But anyway, my friends discovered another way to connect without Zoom. Chat, on the Google docs. Our story got longer and longer. “Maybe,” I thought, “Maybe I’ll grow up to be a writer! Or teacher? They read a lot, too.” Today, our story is 977 pages long. At that time, my family was pretty mixed up. Not always a fun time. I also had a new baby sister, so that was new. For me, covid-19 wasn’t always so fun. Covid times, for me, were messy and crazy. Now with the use of masks, it isn’t that crazy.