I’m a senior at the beautiful Palmyra Area High School in Palmyra, Pa.
Being a senior and having to leave everything you know behind is hard. But having your last day of school in mid-March without realizing it would be your last day makes it even harder. Although I’m sad COVID-19 took away events like prom and graduation from my class, I’m sadder that it took away our chance to say goodbye. We’ll never have that day we’ve been waiting for for years, that day that we walk the halls, laugh in the cafeteria, and talk to our teachers one last time. Now, when we return to the school next, it’ll be following social distancing guidelines to return textbooks and other equipment. After that, if we come back again, it’ll be on our own as alumni. Everything will be different.
We all thought we had more time together in our building as a class and a family. When we left school on March 12, fully expecting to come back the following Monday, none of us realized that our casual, normal goodbyes would be the last ones we would get to make.
-A