Melanie Duronio - week 9

 I’m not super into Valentine’s Day, but every year I buy chocolates and roses for my friends through the secret admirer program at our school. I still like to celebrate my platonic relationships with my friends, and it’s a way to show them that I care!

Melanie Duronio - week 12

I went to the doctor’s this week, just for a normal checkup, but while talking with my mom she had mentioned that since I was 17 I was basically an adult. Not going to lie, it kind of hit me like a brick. I’m so close to being an adult now, I’ll be 18 in a year. It’s strange because I’ve always wanted to go to college and get out and see the world but now that adulthood is approaching so quickly it’s starting to freak me out. I can barely cook! I only know how to make toast, how am I supposed to function as an adult? I mean I know I am still a teenager basically, and very young, but despite my youth, I’m expected to start seriously thinking about my future and such in only less than a year. It’s bittersweet to me. I almost feel as though most of my teenage years have been robbed from me anyway, freshman year I wasn’t able to drive myself anywhere so I didn’t always get to hang out with friends, and then COVID hit sophomore year and I’ve been in my house ever since. When you’re a teenager I feel like you’re supposed to have all these amazing adventures with your friends but I haven’t had many due to COVID. I feel as though my teenage years are slipping away and adulthood is approaching too fast.

Melanie Duronio - week 11

This weekend my family and I celebrated my mom’s birthday with her side of my extended family. It was just a small get-together with my grandparents and aunt’s family, sitting on my grandmother’s porch eating birthday cupcakes and drinking hot chocolate. It’s always really nice to see my family during these times but I know that with the weather getting colder last weekend was probably one of the last times I’m going to see them all in person for awhile. It’s made me realize how much I’ve enjoyed seeing my family as much as I could, and how much I’m going to miss seeing them throughout the winter. 

valerie w week 12

 

1. Since watching the show What on Earth my father and I have been going on Google Earth and finding our own mysterious satellite images that we share with each other and try to figure out. It's actually really interesting.

valerie w week 11

 I enjoy science as well as filmmaking and I have been recently watching this show on Science Channel called What on Earth? It's a series where scientists and analysts look at interesting photos taken by satellites and try to find out what they are through common theories.

Sakthi C- Week 12

 Sometimes I wonder what would have happened if I was born and raised in a different town that was not Westford. I would definitely have a different set of friends and maybe even a different personality. Would I love playing the sport of basketball? Would I love watching football? I think that friends can definitely influence your interests and change who you are. I also think that the place one grows up in can really define who they are. People who grow up in different places are probably treated differently which can explain why one acts the way they are.

Week 12- Beatriz Ferreira

 It is hard living each day as if it were your last. I think about that every day. Sometimes we are expected to give 100%, but it is not every day that we have the strength to do so. We have to allow ourselves to be sad and learn that it is ok not to feel ok all the time.