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Dear people of the future,
My name is Niki and I am a twelve year old living through the COVID-19 pandemic. I was at school when I found out about the outbreak of the virus and I didn't think much of it.
Weeks after, restrictions were put in at our school. No touching anything if not needed, no touching friends, and no touching your face. It was a very surreal experience.
A week after that, I was at home, working in my pyjamas while doing my schoolwork posted on my computer. It sounds amazing doesn't it? Well that's what i thought for the first week in complete isolation. You can simply walk to the fridge in the middle of a science or history lesson and you have no one to motivate you to work. But that is what I found challenging.
When there's no rules and no teachers to tell you to keep working, I wasn't motivated enough to keep working and I missed a lot of work and that made me stressed and confused. But finally, I am back at school. There are strict restrictions, even stricter than before isolation, but at least I get to see my friends rather than seeing them on a screen.
Sure, it was fun drinking tea while working or drawing chalk on the driveway, but coming to school on a crisp May morning has never felt so good.
From Niki
My name is Niki and I am a twelve year old living through the COVID-19 pandemic. I was at school when I found out about the outbreak of the virus and I didn't think much of it.
Weeks after, restrictions were put in at our school. No touching anything if not needed, no touching friends, and no touching your face. It was a very surreal experience.
A week after that, I was at home, working in my pyjamas while doing my schoolwork posted on my computer. It sounds amazing doesn't it? Well that's what i thought for the first week in complete isolation. You can simply walk to the fridge in the middle of a science or history lesson and you have no one to motivate you to work. But that is what I found challenging.
When there's no rules and no teachers to tell you to keep working, I wasn't motivated enough to keep working and I missed a lot of work and that made me stressed and confused. But finally, I am back at school. There are strict restrictions, even stricter than before isolation, but at least I get to see my friends rather than seeing them on a screen.
Sure, it was fun drinking tea while working or drawing chalk on the driveway, but coming to school on a crisp May morning has never felt so good.
From Niki