Quarantine: Day 15 (Emily)

DISTANCE LEARNING

Being a teenager locked in a house with no one besides your 11 year old brother to play with (ain't no complaints), is a little isolating. I spend my non-school days working out & running, singing and practicing golf in our 'local backyard' (a small grassy area that is authorised to everyone within our half mile radius neighbourhood). But on school days, I'm a little bit more busy.

AIS (the American International School of Vienna) has a system where we have four odd days (1, 3, 5, & 7) and we have five classes on that those days, they just rotate. On even days (2, 4, 6 & 8), it's the same deal but we have a different five classes on those days. On even days I have classes that don't require a lot of writing, like Choir, P.E., and Advisory, so I don't have as much work to do. Where as on odd days I have almost all of my core classes, so I have a lot more work than I would on even days.

Unlike Owen, I don't just not like online school as a whole, I just don't like certain aspects of it. For example, I am constantly distracted by YouTube and my phone, so I have a harder time getting anything done. I also still have to get up early because I have to check in with my teachers before classes, but its a little better now because I have to get up at 8 and not 7. There are certain parts that I do like about distance learning, like the independence that I have with completing work. Not everything is due at the end of the class, which is nice.

So to summarise this blog piece, distance learning is fine, but I don't like it as much as normal school. Which is funny, because I never thought that I would ever say that. I think that normal school gives you everything in one, because I'm able to learn and socialise (one of the reasons why homeschooling doesn't really make any sense).