2020-21 Humans of CHS

“This year will be different than previous years because my family cannot attend a Christmas concert together due to COVID-19 restrictions"

"My favorite memory from my childhood (during Thanksgiving) was at my Grandma’s house with my family and Aunts, Uncles and cousins.   After we had eaten our dinner and the kitchen was cleaned up, the men would all go in the living room and watch football and the women and children would drive to Downtown Akron, Ohio and walk around outside of all the big Department stores and admire all the Chris...

"We have a recipe called Buffalo chicken dip. The recipe consists of a can of chicken, a block of cream cheese, shredded Mexican cheese, ranch dressing and Buffalo hot sauce. It’s really good if you mix and heat it all up and then serve with tortilla chips."

"Normally we would have my grandparents over for a couple days around thanksgiving and there’s usually an annual hockey tournament, but it got canceled this year, that one of my brothers would be playing in that’s called the turkey bowl, so normally my family would go to those games and watch them."

"My dad said basically, “hey, let’s try this recipe!” We all loved (cranberry salad) so we have made it every year since. We chop up cranberries, let them sit in sugar usually overnight, and then we add in mandarin oranges and then fold in fresh whipped heavy whipping cream And we usually just have a small thanksgiving at our house since our relatives don’t live close. We do like to invite som...

"One thanksgiving tradition in my family is what we call unthanksgiving. Since I have a big family every year we wouldn’t be able to see each other on thanksgiving because everyone was going all different directions trying to see family, and my siblings spouses family, and there were simply a lot of different thanksgivings happening and we wouldn’t be able to see each other. So we around 5 year...

"I usually go to my grandma’s house, but I can't this year. We are doing a Zoom thanksgiving. We love going to hockey games on thanksgiving. My aunt is actually the manager of the Fort Wayne Comets, so she gets us tickets every year. Me and my grandma always get up early to watch the Macy thanksgiving day parade, everyone else in my family sleeps in. My mom and my aunt always make mashed potatoe...

"(I started playing football when) I was 9 years old and in 4th grade. (My favorite part about coaching football is) watching the players develop and improve as players and young men as the season goes on."

"(When I was a kid, my favorite house to trick-or-treat at was this)  house that the adult always dressed up in a costume and the entire entryway was all decorated with lights, cobwebs and spooky music."

"I want to be more productive, and I guess time management would go along with that. Over the summer, I would just sleep all day, so I’m kind of getting myself back into a better sleep schedule and then working on schoolwork at better times, not at midnight—kind of rearranging my whole timeframe. I’m focusing on more of the sleep schedule stuff, so that will help me get into a better routine. I...

"Currently, my biggest goal in life is to get into a good college and further my academic career. I’m working to establish deadlines for myself and basically just prove to myself and others that I can do it. Right now, I’m trying to get service hours, like I just signed up to volunteer at the Humane Society. (I’m) working on my essays, coming up with topics I could write about, getting letters of...

"I would like to improve my self-motivation for getting schoolwork done, and also for my extracurriculars. What I’m doing to try to improve that is just sitting down with no distractions and working on purely one subject at a time or one extracurricular at a time, just to make sure all the work is getting done. I feel like with hybrid learning, it’s easier to do it because we get multiple days...

"I am working to improve my study habits, and I’m setting a schedule that I can follow to help me. When I get home, I’ll be studying instead of playing and being entertained by things, and I will also be making sure I get all my assignments done for the next day. If I get all my work done, I can do whatever I want. Usually, I don’t use any (study) methods—if I’m tired, I’ll just take a...

"My self-improvement goal is to lose weight, and how I’m working on it is watching what I eat and walking more. I was just too heavy, just feeling the pressure on my body and my knees moving right out of the pandemic. I gained a lot of weight during the pandemic, and now I’m on my toes losing weight. I started a week ago, so this is my second week, and I’m down eight pounds. I’m not on any ...

“I’m getting older, so I’ve always wanted to go outside and go out trick or treating, stuff like that, but I can’t really do that anymore. I still celebrate it- watch scary movies and things like that. (This year) I’ll probably sit around and watch movies with my family or something.”

"I became a teacher because I really enjoy working with students.  I started working in special ed because I want to give everyone equal opportunity to reach their potential."

"This year, I’m really just trying to stay on top of my academics, especially for applying to future colleges that I’m looking at—they’re more prestigious, so I’m trying to do my best on every assignment and test. I’m also trying to be more involved with my family because especially during quarantine, it showed that family’s always going to be there, so it’s important that you take...

"I’m just trying to improve my work ethic and just getting stuff done on time and putting more effort into it. I have a planner where I write down everything I need to get done and due dates and everything like that, and I have Post-It notes that have a certain meaning for each color. I’ve had this goal throughout high school and this year too because  I didn’t really do that well last year. ...

"I definitely want to get more sleep. I got a lot of sleep over the summer, but when school started, I am not getting as much sleep now, and so I want to try to make a more conscious effort to go to bed earlier and also drink less caffeine in the evenings so I can fall asleep at night. When I don’t get enough sleep, I am very groggy throughout the day, and it makes it harder to get stuff done whe...