{"id":5144,"date":"2012-08-29T14:10:23","date_gmt":"2012-08-29T19:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/?p=5144"},"modified":"2014-04-07T07:15:49","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T12:15:49","slug":"summers-filled-with-busy-days-leaves-phs-students-with-little-time-for-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/?p=5144","title":{"rendered":"Summers Filled With Busy Days Leave PHS Students With Little Time For Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sophomore Andrew Gerard enjoyed his summer traveling with his family to mutltiple places. Photo by: Guadalupe Ortiz<\/p><\/div>\n

By Guadalupe Ortiz<\/em><\/p>\n

Beach towels, sun block, cool waves, and being stress free is what summer is all about. But for some Plymouth high school students the summer was filled with work, sports, and other activities leaving them with little time for summer fun.
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\nSome students already had their summer planned out before it had even started. \u00a0But that does not mean it happened the way they wanted it to.\u00a0Sophomore Cassi Quissell says, \u201cMy original plans were to have fun and relax, but that didn’t happen. Because I was at the high school all summer.\u201d Quissell spent most of her summer at PHS busy with volleyball and gymnastics.<\/p>\n

While some were involved with sports, others were earning cash with their summer jobs. Senior Clay Corsbie comments, \u201cIn the beginning of summer I guess I kind of had higher expectations. I also hadn’t planned on getting a summer job so that was a little disappointing.\u201d
\nCorsbie worked at Pioneer detasseling corn in a field where he says, \u201ccould be found in the middle of nowhere in Knox.\u201d<\/p>\n

School also seemed to have kept students back from relaxing. Senior Braxton Moore replied, \u201c I didn\u2019t enjoy it [summer vacation] because I was stuck in summer school taking Government and Economics.\u201d \u00a0In addition to summer classes, like Corsbie, Moore also had a summer job working at UPS.<\/p>\n

However, not all students were stuck with jobs, school, or sports. Sophomore Andrew Gerard commented, \u201cI went on a family vacation to Washington D.C. and also went with my extended family to Higgins Lake, Michigan. I just had plans to relax and have fun! I believe I accomplished those.\u201d Yet\u00a0Gerard was not the only student found vacationing. \u00a0Sophomore Libbie Portteus states, \u201cI enjoyed this summer because I went on a missions trip to the Navajo Nations in Arizona. On my missions trip I went with 14 other people who weren’t my family. Well one was my sister.\u201d<\/p>\n

Not all students enjoyed a trip to a faraway place though. Some had regrets that they did not \u00a0get to travel.\u00a0Rebecca Lee, a sophomore at PHS, says, \u201cI wish I would have gone somewhere or done more.\u201d Lee regrets not getting out as much as she wanted too.<\/p>\n

Others had regrets about getting a summer job. The summer jobs wasted their time, time that they wanted to be filled with summer memories.\u00a0Corsbie finished off with, \u201cI wish I could change a lot of things! Some things such as not taking a summer job, because that really drained a lot of my summer time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Summer is a time to relax, have fun, get out, and finally escape the textbooks (in this case MacBooks) and sitting at desks for eight hours at a time. However, when students commit to summer courses, jobs, or sports summer may seem more like a chore than a time to relax.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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