One of the most eventful and nerve-wracking moments of fall is undoubtedly the first day of school. You spend the first week of school excitedly greeting your friends and getting used to the flow of work after a fun, relaxing summer. You quickly memorize the routes to your new classes and enjoy the sweater weather while you can. You go outside during gym every day and watch the leaves change colors. When it reaches late October, you can plan matching Halloween costumes with your friends. Hopefully, the last days of fall will look aesthetic, with crunchy leaves and clear skies, rather than rainy and dreary!

Eventually, crunchy leaves clutter the ground. Combined with rain, the leaves form a mush that gets all over your shoes. Arriving at school turns into a full sporting event in the rainy, cold early mornings. During school in the winter, it feels as if you’re constantly changing with your cardigan on and off in nearly every class—the temperature throughout the school is as fickle as the number of formal and pajama outfits that people wear to school. Even if some of your classes feel particularly toasty, the cold hits you when you walk through the cafeteria to the A-wing or trailers, especially when it rains or snows!

After the freezing winter comes a spring filled with pollen. Spring is known to all JP students as the season of allergies or, I should say, sneezing. The weather gets warmer and pollen runs rampant. Once the teachers decide to “crack open a few windows” to deal with the slowly increasing heat, it’ll most likely be closed again due to the amount of sneezing! The classroom sounds like a chorus as everyone repeats the phrase “bless you” in unison. It makes you feel good to know how many people wish you good health. For those who don’t have allergies, you tend to enjoy as much of the nice, warm weather as you can by begging your friends to go outside during lunch.

After nine whole months of dismal weather and school, summer arrives! There’s less pollen, but much more heat. If outside temperatures are reminiscent of a beach day, you know it’ll be a furnace inside JP, especially upstairs. Despite the intense weather, the workload usually lightens up and movies become a routine. After the final push and the last couple of days filled with card games, movies, and talking with your friends and peers, you can enjoy the wonderful weather however you like!