Diary Entries

A pandemic of the ages to be left on its own, while social distancing has left me alone, although this time has been a struggle, plants are growing and rivers are flowing, leaving everyone to wonder where this pandemic is going.

This has been a very surprising several weeks. Our country has done so well to try and prevent this coincidence and all I have been doing is trying to not get sick but still being active at the same time which is what I have done. I have got up at 5:30 every morning except on Saturday's and went to the park in the 2 degree cool weather and practice my soccer so than when it comes back to the season to be not slacking and coming out to the new season ready to go.

Today was my first day back in school after 6 weeks of isolation. It felt sort of weird seeing everyone again after 42 days of only seeing my family and people walking down the street but it was good to finally see them and be able to go to school and learn face to face instead of doing online learning.

I have struggle working from home but I did enjoy having recess and lunch had home because i could go anywhere in my house and pick what food I had for recess and lunch. During this time I have been learning how to stand up on a bike and I have been gaming more often which I like. i also been having more time to talk to my parents which was good.

I have finally came back to my dear school to see my friends and teachers. My life has changed so much because of the global crisis but it has changed in a good way because I have gotten a lot better with my independent learning and I have learn't that things can change very quickly and without any notice. During the global crisis I have started to ride my scooter or walk my dog around a few blocks and I hope that this routine will continue. It was also my birthday yesturday but even though we couldn't meet friends at the park or at the movies I still got to talk to them through games and social media and I got to have some fun with my whole family on a zoom chat.

I started year 7 thinking it was going to be like any year. Working at school, bonding with new people and living a normal life. Until everything changed.......... At the start of Term two I still went to school. I missed all my friends and couldn't wait to see them again. Thank god for technology otherwise everything would be so difficult. When I was at school we did online learning. I made new friends and met new teachers. Although this was a difficult time I still enjoyed it.

During this pandemic I baked a lot and learnt new recipes. I also did things I would have never done like build a fort and slept in it. Today was my first day back of year 7 in 6 weeks I had only started year 7 this year yet I never thought I would be remote learning at week 10. I also didn't realise how much we have until we lost the ability to do it and how much family time I had was amazing I absolutely loved it.

I am a year 7 student at Marist Catholic College Penshurst. Today was the day that I finally went back to school after being at home for 7 weeks. The holidays weren't so fun. Staying in doors and doing nothing but watching TV. It wasn't like any other holidays. These few holidays have been wild and a bit of a struggle. I miss all the sport teams that I've been in and hope that this pandemic won't be much longer. Now onto the fun and not serious things. I got to spend more time with my family, especially my brother. I cooked and baked some things which was fun because I don't usually. Riding my bike everyday with my brother is the best, even though we don't get along. So far today has been so fun seeing my friends at school.

My family and I have been in isolation for 9 weeks, and I finally got to go back to school today. It was really nice to see everyone again but honestly I was kind of scared. I'm a year 7 student and I have never really done assessments before and I have some due next week, because we have been online learning I feel like I have missed some of the work. I also have very strong opinions, it fills me with anger when I see our prime minister as he has handled covid-19 in the worst way possible and it is extremely confusing.

Going back to school was the BEST THING EVER! Seeing all of my friends and teachers was amazing and who knew we were going to make history for past generations to look upon. I have spent time with lots of my best friends on face time finding out stuff that I never knew about them. My whole family has come together each night to watch an episode of a TV show every night. After all of this I am hoping to still watch TV with my family and find new things out about friends.