Marist students and faculty are scheduling a variety of activities to keep them occupied over the week-long break from school beginning Monday, March 17.
“My daughter and I are going to tour The University of South Carolina,” says math teacher, Mrs. Oberwise. “She is trying to pick a college for next year. I am excited to see it but I hope she
doesn’t love it – it’s too far from me.”
Others are heading out of town for strictly recreation.
“I was hoping to go to Florida for my spring break because my dad said that we could maybe go and airfare is really cheap,” says freshman Zoe Norris. “We would probably go to Orlando, and
hopefully go to Disney World as well. If Florida does not work out then I’ll probably just hang out with my friends and try to go tanning.”
Others are planning something more low-key.
“I’m looking forward to sleeping in because usually I do not have a lot of time to do that during the week, because I wake up super early everyday for school, and I’m always up late due to excessive amounts of homework,” said freshman Rita Loureiro.
Although students will have nine whole days, including the two weekends, to do nothing but sleep in late and hang out with friends, some teachers will still be occupied with school work.
“I will most certainly do school-related things this break,” says Oberwise. “I will plan the units for the end of the school year and start to create the final exam.”
Some students are planning how they are going to hammer through all of their school work so that it isn’t a bother during break.
“I am going to try to stay up as late as possible and make sure to do all my homework the first day of break so that I don’t have to do it for the rest of our week off,” says Loureiro.
Everybody seems to agree that nine days is a reasonable amount of time to get away from school.
“I do think a week of spring break is awesome,” says Oberwise. “It gives us an opportunity to recharge before coming back to finish the end of the year strong.”
“A nine-day break is deserved because Marist hammers their students with work and sometimes it gets difficult to keep up with it all and stay on top of it,” says Norris.
“I think it is deserved because we have been working so hard in school and we have all these projects to do constantly so it will be nice to get a little break from all of that,” says Loureiro.
The second break will be the four days off of school surrounding Easter weekend beginning April 18.
