“It’s very disappointing, but no, you won’t be sad forever”

June 16, 2020

Dear Diary,

We just heard the most terrible news: Camps are not opening this summer in our state. My mother got an email from my teen camp saying something like, “We unfortunately will not opening this year due to the virus.” (I’m so sick of the word corona that I can’t even write it here — oops, I just did.)

I am too sad to write another word.

June 17, 2020

You know how much I love camp, Diary. Even when I was exhausted after a trip day, I made sure to record every detail of the day in you. Remember the waterslide that plunged down into the huge lake? I was so scared that I almost didn’t try it — until I realized that if I do it, I can write about it in my diary! That thought gave me strength to do the scariest, most fun thing ever.

The only one in the whole family who isn’t bored is Nachi — he practices rollerblading all day and schmoozes on the phone with his best friend, Bubby.

June 18, 2020

As you know, I love to rollerblade. It’s an obsession. I got new black rollerblades with light-up wheels, which I must say look great. I spent a lot of time rollerblading over the lockdown, but today I just didn’t want to. I lay around on the couch instead. My mother asked if I was still sad about camp.

“I will be sad forever,” I told her solemnly.

“It’s very disappointing, but no, you won’t be sad forever.”

I told her that no good could possibly come out of this summer.

She said she understands how I feel, but I doubt she could.

June 22, 2020

I decided this morning before breakfast that I would be bored for the next 77 days until school started, and then I would be bored in school.

I called Miri to tell her, and she said I better not stop at 77 because who really knew if they would start school on time in the fall?