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I’ve always been an indoor, introverted kind of person but quarantine has kind of made me miss being out in the open.

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Ordering in has become a bad habit of mine, and this meme pretty much sums up how it usually goes.

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Sometimes students in my class just roll out of bed and log onto google meets looking like this...

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My family truly is crazy.
(Jan 1, 2021)

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I am the reigning Jenga champion! No one can beat me!
(Nov 25, 2020)

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Over quarantine, I’ve needed to earn service hours to apply for NJHS. I did so by fostering a salamander from the science lab, which I named Mr. Marbles.
(Mar 16, 2021)

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One good thing that came out of the pandemic is being able to spend more time with my brother because of quarantine.
(Feb 26, 2021)

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(May 7, 2021)

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What is the date and time?

Saturday, May 8th, 2021

6:16pm

What’s your name and how old are you?

Gianna Rose Gutierrez, 7 years old

What’s your favorite holiday?

Christmas and Halloween

What’s your favorite color?

Blue and purple

What’s your favorite land animal?

Giraffe

What’s your favorite sea animal?

Turtle

What’s your favorite food?

McDonalds and chicken

What’s your favorite dessert?

Cake

What’s your favorite superhero?

Supergirl

Who do you look up to the most?

My dad

What’s your biggest fear?

Snakes

Do you like dancing or singing more?

Dancing

What’s your favorite song?

7 Rings by Ariana Grande

What’s your favorite type of movie?

Disney

What’s the craziest thing that happened to you recently?

I sometimes fart with my dad

What’s your most favorite part of the pandemic?

I like wearing masks at school and taking boiling showers at grandmas house

What’s your least favorite part of the pandemic?

I don’t like being close to people except my family

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When quarantine started I immediately drowned myself in music. It was an amazing tool for feeling free in expressing myself. Here’s some of the songs I have on repeat:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/34e8oVeaO5baKHMKuOnfrA?si=iXC9CSe6SIGwbDDiy014Qw

Do I Wanna Know? — Arctic Monkeys

Skyfall — Adele

Achilles Come Down — Gang of Youths

I Hear a Symphony — Cody Fry

Just a Little Bit of Your Heart — Ariana Grande

Young and Beautiful — Lana Del Rey

Raindrops — Ariana Grande

Everybody Wants to Rule the World — Lorde

Blood // Water — Grandson

No Time To Die — Billie Eilish

How Villains Are Made — Madalen Duke

Heathens — Twenty One Pilots

Set Fire to the Rain — Adele

Earned It — The Weeknd

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All of my idols, all of my peers, all of my family. I look up to them in so many different ways. However, they all share something in common: breaking boundaries. My one goal, my one purpose lately has been to break through some kind of boundary, to prove to everyone, but mainly to myself, that I am capable. Ever since coming to American Heritage, my parents and I had been hoping to apply for the academic scholarship. When eighth grade finally rolled around, we did exactly that. I began the application process with the basics: past report cards, recommendation letters, etc. Next came the essay. Next came the “why should you get the scholarship.” Next came the “what do you bring to the table.” Next came the “tell me about you.” One look at the prompt and I froze. Why should I get the scholarship? What do I bring to the table? What is there to tell? This is what enabled my journey in finding myself. I tried and tried and finally one day it happened. Finally I understood who I was and what my purpose was. I wrote the best, most emotionally captivated work I’ve ever written. A while passed before I took the interview and the endless rounds of exams. Days and days went by until a month had passed. People all around me were receiving phone calls that they had gotten the scholarship. People were also receiving emails that they hadn’t. So you could assume what my emotions had been when I received neither. I cried for a bit, then ate ice cream and cried more for I had thought I didn’t get it. I thought I had failed myself. Then weeks passed by again and my mother found an envelope on her desk at work. At dinner that night, she gave it to me and I just burst into tears. I had gotten the scholarship. I had made myself proud.
(May 3, 2021)

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What is the date and time?

Saturday, May 8th, 2021

6:21 pm

What’s your name and how old are you?

Geraldine Pineda, 30 years old

What’s your favorite holiday?

My birthday

What’s your favorite color?

Black but it used to be red

What’s your favorite land animal?

Puppies

What’s your favorite sea animal?

Sea horse

What’s your favorite food?

Salami pizza

What’s your favorite dessert?

Anything with chocolate

What’s your favorite superhero?

Batman

Who do you look up to the most?

My mom

What’s your biggest fear?

Losing more family

Do you like dancing or singing more?

Dancing

What’s your favorite song?

Ocean by Karol G

What’s your favorite type of movie?

Horror

What’s the craziest thing that happened to you recently?

I got my car stolen at work

What’s your most favorite part of the pandemic?

Spending more time with our family

What’s your least favorite part of the pandemic?

Losing my dad

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Apart from music, I like using books as an escape from reality. I can become apart of another universe simply by flipping a page. Here’s some of the books I’ve read or want to read:

Harry Potter — J.K. Rowling

Percy Jackson — Rick Riordan

The Selection — Kiera Cass

Six of Crows - Leigh Bardugo

Dance of Thieves — Mary Pearson

They Both Die at the End — Adam Silvera

The Cruel Prince — Holly Black

The Song of Achilles — Madeline Miller

Red Queen — Victoria Aveyard

A Court of Thorns and Roses — Sarah Maas

From Blood and Ash — Jennifer Armentrout

Shatter Me — Tahereh Mafi

Serpent & Dove — Shelby Mahurin

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My first reaction to COVID-19 was like “uh oh.” I’d been hearing about a new virus that was spreading rapidly, and I was not happy when I learned school would be shutting down. It was March 13th, a normal Friday. It was also Immigration Day at school where we dressed up like it was the 1800s and pretended we had just arrived at Ellis Island. I was in a group with Medha Balaji, Santiago Agualimpia, and Hayley Schachter. We were from Nice, France and were Jewish immigrants. At the end of the day, the entire seventh grade met in the auditorium to watch a movie, An American Tail. Towards the end of the movie everyone’s phones went off, and we received an email saying we would have an extended spring break due to coronavirus. My friend Hayley and I knew we were in trouble. We got so annoyed when kids behind us, specifically Aubrey Caprara, started getting loud and excited about it. They were so focused on the fact that we had a two week spring break to even care about the whole virus that would eventually turn into a deadly pandemic. Since it was March 13th, quarantine would start on my birthday, March 16th. You could guess how I felt about that.
(May 3, 2021)

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As the COVID-19 pandemic stretches on, many people have taken up new hobbies or returned to hobbies they enjoyed long ago to help fill their leisure time. During quarantine, I have discovered that dance isn’t just some extracurricular activity I do for college applications. I do it because I love it. I’ve dedicated a lot of my time to dance. This includes doing it both day a and day b electives, having it after school, and practicing at lunch. Dance is more than just a hobby, it’s a passion. Dance is something you work hard for, something you put all of your spare time and effort into. Dance is something that you never want to give up on. When the day of your dance concert arrives, you put everything you have learned about dancing over the years, and show it to all of the people watching you. No matter how exhausted you are on that dance floor, you cannot give up. You need to dance until the very end, until you are the best dancer you can possibly be. In order to be the best dancer you can be, you need to breathe, love, and live dance. And that’s exactly what I intend to do for the rest of my life.
(May 3, 2021)

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We had our 2020 presidential election during coronavirus and Joe Biden is our president!
(Nov 7, 2020)

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I’ve been waiting for this... making breathable air on Mars is pretty cool if you ask me.
(Apr 23, 2021)

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Towards the beginning of quarantine, the killing of George Floyd took place. This sparked the Black Lives Matter movement and brought about a much needed change. Injustice and brutality is the only thing the law enforcement has been serving lately. This bill is a step in the right direction.
(Apr 28, 2021)