![]() ![]() I'm definitely an introvert and I really loved remote learning. Because I felt like, so - just this huge rush of emotions, because I could finally do my favorite thing again.]Īdam Porterfield: Being around my peers has definitely been something I didn't realize I was missing in COVID. And we were singing this like silly song, just something that we prepared and were singing and I just started bawling. I remember the first time after COVID had finally kind of opened up a little bit, we could finally sing together. It was like literally - it was actually terrible. We just had to like, stand six feet and we can only sing outside together. And like in chorus, I remember, we couldn't do anything. Student one: COVID took away like the best part of music, which is collaboration. Because they weren't, they didn't have that push. And I think that's definitely due to like. Like I know a ton of people dropped out of chorus or band after COVID. Well, I think that like you need good teachers for students to keep up with something. Rivers or any other people or programs in the department inspired your involvement or pursuit of music? This is a wordy question because I tried to get certain answers.Īdam: Yeah. [Adam Porterfield interviewing classmates: "All right, a few seniors are working with VPR to get like, time capsules that might be heard on the radio from our senior year.Īdam: Yeah, it's pretty cool. Leaving for college, 17-year-old Ellie Hammond will miss the 'big warm hug' of the Mad River Valley Like pre-COVID we really had a stronger music program, we're still recovering from COVID, because you lose a lot of numbers because of that, trying to play over Zoom. My freshman year was a little more strict. Be a part of something bigger than yourself." Rivers, my band teacher's always saying: "You need these two things on the side of your head, you're listening to the whole band. In band you really need to be listening to everybody. Learning music is a totally different way to learn. It's a big part of my family, like I always knew I was gonna be involved in band and playing piano. So I play the tenor saxophone in band, and I play classical piano outside of band. It's the band teacher's last year, so he's kind of letting loose a little bit and it's a good time in there. I think my favorite class might really be band. And I'd never really saw that in any classes I had before. But this class has really given me a new appreciation for literature and the arts and English, because it's just so fun to be passionate about something like that. Or we hate the books, which has happened a lot with Frankenstein, Hamlet was a good one that we really hated. Whether we love the books, and we're just so excited to talk about everything going on. That energy also translates to books we're really passionate about. We walk in and we have so much energy, we're gossiping. More from Vermont Public: 'We Have Nothing To Do': How Vermont Teenagers Are Spending An Unusual Summer It felt like the start of my freshman year again before everything went downhill. I think that's gonna get me far in life, hopefully.īut COVID-wise, it's really felt like the most normal year, no masks, no weird schedule things. Like some people might call me more of like a teacher's pet. But in typical-me fashion, I have a full schedule this year. Most people going into their senior year, they tend to take it down a notch. Yeah, so I'll be back when I'm at school. And this is my last year with the club, since I will be graduating, of course. And after school, I'm going to be going to coach soccer with Capital Soccer Club. Then I'm going to have AP literature, band, AP statistics. I'm going to be going to meet with my middle school mentee. We recommend listening to this story if you can! We've also provided a transcript below.Īdam Porterfield: All right, it is a Friday, and I'm on my way to school. Today, we'll tag along for a day in the life of Adam Porterfield, an 18-year-old from Waterbury. So we asked some students at Harwood Union High School in Washington County to document what they found significant about their senior years, and worked with them to produce a series we'll be airing all week. We wanted to get a sense of what it was like to go back to "normal," and to understand what really matters to teenagers about to head into the world. For many of them, this was the first year that the pandemic didn't profoundly affect their school days. Around Vermont, high school seniors are about to graduate. ![]()
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