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Day 50: mon

It’s been a chaotic semester, and my professors are being a bit more lenient. I emailed my plant science professor and asked for an extension on one of my missed assignments, and I need to complete it by this Thursday.

UOG announced that the CARES funding has arrived and that the first wave of funds were dispersed. Currently waiting for my moola from Sir King Trumpelstiltskin.

Day 51:

I have three minutes til my math class. Let’s see what I can update.

It took me a while, but i’ve transitioned from a wakeup, attend class, workout/plant care schedule, to a wakeup, eat, attend class, workout/plant care routine starting today.

I thought depriving myself from eating would force me to workout, but I was punishing myself for nor being mentally ready.

School ends in a few weeks, and we’ll see my schedule evolve once again.

My presentation on some cowpeas and nodules is tomorrow, and I am not the least bit ready for it. I didn’t complete the assignment therefore, I don’t have a presentation. Lucky for me, I’m plugged in for the afternoon, but I really need to get my info completed by today.

I took a long break from cowpeas to discuss local programs and federal assistance for COVID-19 relief with my extended family, and it reminds me of how important it is to be objective with information. Lots of the time, we read titles and see snapshots of things, when it doesn’t paint the whole picture. Long story short, I did a lot more digging to figure out how Guam will receive help from sir king trump and the local government. Information like this should not be hard to find, and we need to do better at informing our community.

Day 52: wed

I did what I could. My presentation, in a few hours, will really be about how I used the computer to do the assignment.

I finally had the chance to stop by UOG again to pick up the soil and seeds for my NSF experiment, and I’m not that too excited for it. I guess it might just be because I’ve been planning this for so long, and that I only get to work on it now.

Before I stopped by UOG, I called Home Depot if they had soil, and they don’t. I’m really hoping to get more soil so that I can transplant more plants. Hopefully, I’ll be able to transform the side of my house into a raised garden.

My presentation was “ok,” I got an A for doing it, but it was hard for me to get up confidently knowing what I just went after. Nevertheless, I finished.

Time to study for my math exam.

Day 53: thur

It was easier than the study guide, but I still believe that I did a lot worse than what I’ve been averaging. I hope that I can pass this class. Because I don’t have it in me to keep studying math. I’m tired of angles and formulas. And overall, I think i’m just done with school. If I can average a B for this semester, I’ll be happy.

Day 54:

I woke up a few minutes before my alarm went off. I didn’t know how to respond- should I go back to sleep or wake up?

I stayed up watching TikToks. I wished I could be this cool.

I attended the second island sustainability conference, and I have mixed emotions. Part of me thinks this guy has an inflated personality, but the other part of me appreciates that he put his time and money into the environment. Considering where other people with large sums of money put theirs, the tetris creator doesn’t seem the worst.

I have another meeting with Guam’s youth Climate chapter in a few minutes, but I need the restroom. Hopefully I’ll make it back in time.

Day 55:

Tomorrow, the government is expected to lift restrictions of non-essential businesses just in time for Mother’s Day. That mean’s that today is going to be my last COVID-19 journal entry. I don’t expect much of my routine to change.

If anything, I feel like this was an extended summer, but with assignments. At first, I was heavily against online learning, but I think most of that feeling had to do with being afraid of change. I now have another outlook on online learning, and it’s easier than I dreaded it to be. I feared that I wouldn’t learn math from home, but I’ve learned more from my math class than I did from my other subjects that made the transition. I commend my math professor for doing an excellent job at transferring the lessons online. One perk from online learning is that lessons are recorded, and when I need to review, I can always rewatch it. Nevertheless, my second semester of classes was less than stellar, because going through secondary education is more than just academics- it’s friendship, extracurriculars and humans.

On the bright side, imagine how much less carbon was emitted. Our carbon footprint went down, no doubt. And I spent a lot more time tending my plants and discovering new hobbies and skills.

I hope we don’t go back to where we were pre-covid 19. Now is the best time for us to support economies that will be better for our community, island and region. There is a lot of opportunities that our government can take to prop up our local industries to sustain ourselves and the region- moving away from dependence on superpowers to interdependence on ourselves and our island neighbors.