I never got to experience the final day of Primary school because of COVID-19....
So today i have an intresting piece of information, dont you hate it when a big disruption happens at the worst moment?
Well....in Summer of 2020, i WAS going to finish primary school after about 8 years of being there, I had already come close to finishing Year 6 (In malta we say year instead of grade) Even in year 6 I had a lot of stuff, I had my 10th birthday on October 29 2019 and it was the last time I can remember subjects like maths actually being numbers and not with letters, the funny part is that at the time I was actually excited for 2020 and beyond since ive never experienced a new decade before (I was too young when 2010 happened) and then guess what? Year 6, the final year, suddenly got CUT OFF in April 2020 because of Coronavirus. The only thing that I was glad of at the time is that that there were no exams so I passed easily but lets be realistic, tests back then were much easier so it doesnt matter to me, the big problem is.....WE DID NOT have a farewell to primary school even though we have been there for 8 years! Like not even a last day celebration, just a sudden alert that school will take 2 weeks off on April 15 so the exams in June can take place and then.....more and more days kept being cancelled untill they decided to automatically pass all students and cancel the rest of the school year since the virus was too severe, as a result I never got into primary school again because June reached before the virus was controlled. To comprehend the experience, imagine knowing a place where you made 70% of your life's memories for 8 years and you didnt even know when you saw it the final time.
The good news is that when i finished high school in June of 2025 they did a bigger celebration for MY school year than usual because they knew me (and students born the same year) were the ones without a farewell to primary due to the pantemic, for other yeargroups they did the prom casually in school, for my yeargroup....they did the prom in a PALACE. And i mean it was a very good palace, the school themselves even said this was the biggest prom they had ever done and its also when the principal found out my dad went to the same school, but thats a topic for another time. [Also before you ask, no i didnt get a girlfriend at the prom, and i never had one to this day :(]
The thing is that even if i finally got the celebration i needed....i will NEVER forget how i never finished primary school because the world decided to have a pandemic the excact moment i was supposed to graduate. The prom definitely made up for it, but the only thing still missing...is to have one last day in primary school. If i could change ONE thing in the past, this would EASILY be it, and any Maltese born in 2009 (like me) went through the same exact stuff i just told you. At the time i was a 10-year old boy who was robbed of one of the biggest changes in life. Overall, what would you say about my experience? Im pretty sure many people who were finishing a school in 2019-2020 had a similar experience as this.