A Day in the Life of Amari McKenzie 13 ¾ ~~~~~~ by Sue Akande

                Hightown Writers respond to October's challenge to write inspired                  by 'The secret diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 ¾'           

Classrooms are empty - pupils log in from home

Thursday 4^th June 2020                                            Week 11 of Lockdown

I’ve been in my bedroom all day, another wonderful day on TEAMs! It’s different this term though as we are having what the school calls ‘live’ lessons. I’m not sure I’d call them that!

The teachers are in school now and call us up on TEAMs when it’s time for our lesson. My teachers aren’t brave enough to have the camera on in Maths and English so we just hear them talking to us and follow the tasks they set on the PowerPoint.  This morning my English teacher kept asking us to mute as there were some very strange noises at one point.  Mira said that they were having a new carpet fitted at her house and Ryan said that he was just finishing his breakfast! My English teacher didn’t realise she was on mute for the first five minutes of the lesson. What a noob! At least my maths teacher knows what she’s doing. We can use the little hand icon to let the teacher know if we want to say something or ask a question. I wonder if they realise that half the class answer the call and then go and do something else while they are rabbiting on – who’s to know? That’s what Sean says he does.

Mother and Father have been arguing all day. Both of them are on furlough and getting on my nerves. Mother keeps saying she wants to use this time to decorate the house. She’s bought loads of paint but I bet it’s still sitting in the hallway at Christmas. She wants to decorate the bathroom with a paint called ‘Elephant’s Breath’! Yuk! It sounds dead disgusting but Mother says it’s an uplifting mid grey with a hint of magenta! She’s bought ‘Blue Escape’ for her and Father’s bedroom and she wants jewel colours in the living room. She’ll be lucky!

I’ve been thinking quite a lot about the new girl in my class today. I wonder what she’s like. She’s called Hermione. Of course I haven’t seen her yet but she did ‘like’ my comment in the chat box about our science homework – haha!