Best Winter Occurrnces

Every high schooler’s dream is to have a snow day or a two hour delay. You get to sleep in like it’s a weekend on snow days and if the roads aren’t too extremely terrible you might even be able to go out and hang with friends! It’s like a vacation day. And if you don’t want to hang out with anyone and just lie around the house and be lazy and sleep, you can do that too. The only problem with snow days for me is that my mom always has a list of chores for me to do. She never fails to think of things that need to be done around that house she can have me do when I have a day off. They usually aren’t hard things to get done, but I most certainly never want to do them. You also have to make up snow days which aren’t too much fun. They have a few built in snow days we can make up if necessary, but we usually have more than are built in so we go over into the summer and that’s not cool. Another down fall of a snow day is that I still have to go to work when we have one. I work everyday from 3:30 to 6 and they never close. They only closed early once last year.
Two hour delays I think are the best out of the two though. You get two extra hours of sleep which can do wonders if you don’t get much sleep at night like me. You never have to make it up because you still go to school for more than half the day so it counts as one of the 180 days we have to be at school. Therefore, when the weather is nice and warm outside, no one is cooped up in a school day dreaming about being outside doing fun things instead of learning. Another plus is that classes are shortened, but not so short that all of the classes fall behind on their curriculum. It’s never any fun when you have to rush through lessons and no one ever really grasps the concept of them and then the teacher has to reteach it later anyway because no one retains the information that was given. Even though a two hour delay would be my first pick, either of the two would be a fantastic occurrence anyday.