2021. A big year for all of us, with Covid restrictions coming and going. For me, 2021 was my first year of normal school in 4 years, so it took a while to get used to it. This post will cover some of the things I did in 2021 and ‘me reflecting on them’.

One of the first things about 2021 I remember is starting school with a lockdown. We did video calls over Microsoft Teams, and didn’t really get much work done. Aside from that, it was nice to meet my class in week 2. I met a few people who would end up being my friends, and, *cough*, didn’t form a cult based around watermelon. The first few weeks were quite nice, sitting out on the lawn at our own private table at lunch, making friendships during class. And then in week 4 was when I discovered the library.

The library has probably been one of the biggest things for me, as I love reading, but also *cough cough* you definitely not play video games in there during lunch/recess. So for the rest of the year, pretty much, that’s where I spend my breaks. In Term 2, I remember especially, I started a Minecraft SMP (The JAM SMP), and had about 8 players a day (biggest server milestone ever for me). JAM was good, until people started making their own spin-offs, namely the Yogurt SMP and (I’m pretty sure it was called this) the Peanut Butter SMP. By the end of Term 3, people had started to discover emulators and that was the start of a new page in my book. By Term 4, Me and one of my friends decided to race through a video game and see who could finish first, and it took us over 24 hours total (I won, of course). Then we decided to make and play a factions server for Minecraft.

Overall, this is a recount of the main things at school during 2021 that were not related to academics.

A goal I want to complete this year is:

Get 100% on a test.