Diary Entries

The Corona Virus changed my life because I can’t hang out with my friends and I can’t go to school. I don’t like how the Corona Virus has affected families all around the world, it has affected how I live my daily life, such as going to school, going to dance classes, hugging my friends and family, going to friends houses and friends coming to my house. I do not like being isolated either,we are being isolated in our homes because the Corona Virus spreads by coughing, touching and even breathing. A Lot of people are not going to work anymore as well, the only people who can go to work are needed, such as doctors and coal miners. One thing I like about the Corona Virus is that I don’t have to wake up early for school, I can do school work in my pajamas and that I can watch new shows on Netflix. Another thing that has affected me is that I can only have 2 people come to my house and my birthday is coming up and I cannot have people over because of the restrictions the government had put up for everyone’s safety. One thing I am looking forward to is when people can go traveling again because my family and I want to go on cruises with our friends. Speaking of cruises another thing I do not like is that some people from another country were stuck on a cruise ship for a month, they were not aloud to leave, luckily some people made entertainment packs for people. The cruise ship left Australia after being here for around 2 weeks. I really hope that everything gets better and I want doctors to find a cure, or at least something to stop the spread of COVID-19.

I’m my opinion covid 19 did good and bad to me. It was fun at the start and changed over time. To start it off I was super excited to go do my dance workshop for my high school audition but that got cancelled which was very sad so they can now only base it on my solo. On the subject of dance I lost the chance to complete in all my competitions :( I even got entered into a competition in 8 sections which I was VERY excited for but sadly that got cancelled too. I think the worst thing for me was not being able to see all my friends the only thing that would help was being online with them or FaceTime which I am very thankful for at the moment. But 1 good thing was that I made a new friend who lives extremely close to me and she is very nice she was a good distraction from not seeing my other friends. I enjoyed spending lots more time with family and pets but at some states it got very annoying especially a brother that loves annoying you with whatever chance he has, He may be older than me but still loves it. I am a person who loves going outside but I was very great full to have the house I do because there are so many places to explore!!!. It was quite nice to get a break from everything because my life is very full on so In my opinion covid 19 was an interesting experience :)

Covid-19 changed my life because I can not play soccer and I can not go motobike riding but the biggest thing is I can’t see my friends. I am lucky we have the internet so I can call or text my friends. I have also learnt how to bake and cook and also with my online work I finished early every day. I felt scared and worried that one of my family members will get sick and die but lucky no one in my family has caught it.

What I haven’t liked about COVID-19: I haven’t liked not being able to talk to my friends in real life and not being able to do dancing at my dance school and having to do it at home which was annoying because I have older brothers that annoy me a lot. Things I have enjoyed about COVID-19: I have liked finishing my school work early and not having to wake up to early to get ready for school. I’ve also like FaceTiming friends during the day and having virtual sleepovers (where you FaceTime and watch movies until you fall asleep). What I’m excited about when the restrictions are lifted: I’m excited for going to the shops, going to my friends house and going back to dancing. How am I feeling at this point in time: in this point in time I’m feeling pretty bored after finishing my school work early but I have been outside a lot more and I’ve kind of enjoyed staying home, talking to my friends and going on bike rides as well as dancing from home.

With restrictions in NSW very slowly starting to lift, I found myself still very mindful of my surroundings outside my home and of course while visiting my 80 year old mother and 79 year old father. Keeping social distancing will become part of our lives now. As our Premier - Gladys Berejiklian said this week - "we need to all assume we have corona virus and we should assume that the person we come across outside our home also have the corona virus" This to me makes sense, as social distancing will stop the spread. I am able to still go into the office, while the rest of the staff have decided to work from home. So, basically I am in the office with one other person and thankfully we have our own offices and keeping a safe distance is easy to maintain. So work life for me has not changed. My husband works for Australia's airline and with over 30,000 people having been stood down, he is lucky to be still going into the office on his rostered days (he is a shift worker). With the people being stood down, we are hoping that everyone is back at their jobs when this is all over, as we are going to need every single one of those people to get the airline up and running again. My son (26) has unfortunately lost his job, but funnily enough not because of Corona virus - his employer was bought out by another larger company, and this puts him is a position now where he is looking for employment as are half the people in our country. I hope he finds something soon. Let's hope a vaccine is found and we can all resume our normal lives.... whatever normal is.

Isolation has been alright I watched a lot of netflix and my favourite series and movie was bad boys and the indian detective and also I was facetiming all my friends and a couple of times I was facetiming my grandparents to see how they were. I also was going to the park every day of isolation because we are at home for a very long time so I've been going to the park every day to keep fit.

Today was the first day i had gone to school in like 6 weeks ! There was hardly anyone here as many people stayed home because of the pandemic. It was nice to be out of the house but pretty stressful having to see my teachers and fellow students. At home it was like a ghost town, no one was on the streets, everyone was inside. I had nothing to do because school work was boring, Netflix ended up getting boring, the tv and xbox, boring. I had nothing to do the entire time. It was like a zombie apocalypse and we had to hide. I sat at home for nearly 2 months doing nothing, driving me crazy.

I arrived at school for the first time in 7 weeks, the cold air slaps me in the face and wakes me up. As I walk to my locker I see groups of people talking non-stop. Everyone is catching up with each other. The teachers summon us to head to our pastoral class. We stand there in the warm sun running our mouths. Our teachers don't bother trying to shut us up. I contemplate returning to school, it is good to see my friends but it isn't good to see some people (know what I'm saying). While I am in math feeling stupid I get called to answer a question, I have a mind blank WHAT IS 14 - 5?! A boy laughs at me, I answer the question and slump back into my chair. Then he gets asked a question, he stumbles over his words and can't answer. I give him some karma and laugh back at him. the class snickers. The clown deserved it.

The colour covid is a purplish colour that we see nightly on our ABC television news. The news presenter Jeremy Fernandez wears a tie to match the virus snowballs that drift down the screen behind him. News reader Juanita Phillips, elegant in her navy jacket can also be seen with some big purple covid coloured viral snowballs behind her. I don't think I can wear the covid colour; the colour never suited me anyway. The government has now progressed us on a three stage recovery plan, and Mother's day yesterday was wonderful. We had two family members visit for a bbq. Despite the evil virus and being in our seventies we are managing well. There is beautiful Australian light in the sky by day and beautiful moon and stars at night. The green plants and the flowers blooming in the garden are pretty and lockdown has not been unpleasant. We can walk to Careel Bay and sit on a sandstone rock and watch the boats bobbing about. We normally swim in the ocean pools but unfortunately this has not been possible so we walk from the Bilbola car park to the ocean pool and just look at it; it will be opened soon in the next stage of recovery process.

Never thought I'd ever see this phase of life. I've learnt a lot over the past few days or months. I have reconnected with myself, on what it is to be a human being. I have connected more with family and friends, cut down my social media in's and out's. Most importantly, have started a happiness space with my wife and friends. It is helping me stay positive, do my workouts, be healthy. I also miss my 4-month old baby and wife, who are stuck in India. Hoping to see them soon. Miss them so much. Finally, a hearty thank you to all the medical staff and each and everyone, who is working to keep the world running. Cheers to you all !!