Half empty classrooms, the sound of coughing fills each room, and hushed talk of who’ll be the next to have swine flu; these are the things that my day contained.
I must be oblivious, because I didn’t have any friends who skipped school because they wanted to close it for a week. Would you like to know why? Because none of us were naive enough to think that was true, and none of us wanted to come back for a week in the summer. I had ten people in my English class today, in a class which usually has 18 people. The field hockey team had to cancel a game because half of them were sick. Do we see a pattern? Central York has a flu problem.
I personally am one of the lucky few who are avoiding catching the flu from those who come to school sick. People who come to school functions sick, such as homecoming, are the reason nearly 25 percent of my classmates were absent today. Contrary what the school district told reporters, this had nothing to do with some freshman trying to get people to skip school.
So Central students, drink your orange juice, cover your cough, and avoid sick friends; but don’t worry we don’t have a flu outbreak. Apparently, we all had planned to get the flu so we could come back for a week of school over the summer.