At first, I was content even happy
Then I was fine
Now I am unsure
I was sad when we first got the news that we were going home, but I assumed this was coming and there was nothing we could do about it. My first week home, our “spring break” was quite enjoyable. Life was normal. I hung out with a bunch of my high school friends. I was playing basketball or golf daily, going out to lunch and gave into my little sister… recording daily Tiktoks. Titled “Day X of solitude”. Although we had not been at school that long I was enjoying doing nothing. Life was enjoyable
The second week hit, surprise another week of spring break. Sweet I thought! Slowly my friends were not allowed to come outside. The restaurants were now ordered to do To-Go only with many closing to figure things out as we embarked on this new adventure. But hey I was still recording Tiktoks with my sister
We are at the end of week-three. My days have become quite mundane and very repetitive. I wake up at 5 am before anyone in my house is up. I go for a run. After my run, I get changed and head to the golf course. I proceed to play 18 holes by myself and usually do not see a single soul for a few hours. These parts of my day are very relaxing as they are usually my only time alone. Once I get back my dad is walking out the door to go to work. My mom and sister are figuring out what to eat for breakfast. After we eat breakfast, me and my sister record our daily TikTok(we are on day 20). Who would have guessed one of the constants of my spring semester of college would be recording dancing videos with my sister. I tend to do some school work and that is about it for my day. Although it may be more then most do these days, for me it is still lack-luster.
How am I doing? I truly do not know come ask me another two weeks from now. Yes, life is very boring now, but I am not stir-crazy as some of my friends say they are. Although I do love golf I don’t know if I will want to continue playing a few weeks from now. So maybe I will have a new hobby at the end of all of this. All I do know is I am in too deep with our daily TikTok to stop now.
-Conner Polizzi-Gullo
The photo is a gif of our most viewed TikTok
ENGL110 Spring 2020 11:15-12:05 
I really liked the way you set this up. The transition from when you got home to now seems very natural and was a great way to organize your thoughts. Also, I definitely agree with what you said about it getting mundane. I was also fine at first but now I’m definitely bored and waiting for something to change.
-Shannon Burke
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It’s so interesting to see that even though we are all isolated within our homes, many of us have gone through the same motions of enjoying this break, to becoming a bit bored, to now having fallen into an almost robotic repetition of daily tasks with little to no variety from a day to day basis. I too was excited at first by the prospect of an early spring break, but about a week in I started to go stir crazy for lack of a better phrase. It certainly doesn’t help that we don’t have a definite end in sight, so we are almost forced to go about as if this is our new normal. Hopefully we can still manage to find enrichment in our now mundane days
– Abby Selbst
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Connor, I can definitely relate to recording dance vids on TikTok lol there is rarely a day now when I do not make one. You’re welcome to hit me up with a follow @empell630 and ill even follow you back haha. Overall, I really enjoyed your writing and how it flowed really nicely. You truly wrote out all of your thoughts. I also currently do not know how I am feeling, it is a trying time, but hey if we just continue to create Tik Tok dances, maybe we’ll be lucky enough to get the fame! Stay well.
-Emily Pellegrino
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