Summer Plan B Story

Senior Ale Calvo intended on traveling to Asia to visit Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia in July; however, the trip was canceled due to COVID-19. “Instead of traveling this summer, I mostly spent my time at home. I’m lucky enough to have a pool so I spent most of my summer there,” Calvo said. “It was difficult to make the best out of summer without being able to go out and travel, but this s...

While most only experienced the travel ban prohibiting them from traveling outside the country, at the beginning of summer, junior Santi Lugo encountered the flip side that banned people from internationally entering the country.  “My best friend, [junior] Santi [Helbig], who I haven’t seen in over a year was going to come and spend three weeks in St. Louis. Sadly, Santi couldn’t come into ...

Sophomore Hope Green adjusted to the new normal working at Sports Fusion. “Since COVID-19 came along, a place that has kids touching a bunch of things and interacting just isn’t ideal,” Green said. “We haven’t gotten more than 10 people at one time but people still come in.” As a public business that is now open, Sports Fusion is required to follow state health guidelines.  “[We...