The QuaranTEENS

This week I’ve been out every day. Day and night… I wanted to talk about something much more important than that.

I don’t know if you’ve been following what’s going on in the USA? I’m not going to hand over the video, but I think you’ve all heard the story of George Floyd… Since then, the Americans have rebelled, and that’s normal. Even in France with the story of Adama Traoré who died in 2016, demonstrations have been organized… Personally, I find that people react late, but really late. After it’s better late than never, but this problem is the same as in France, but not with the same violence. In the United States, the police are violent, but even more so with blacks, who risk their lives each time they are controlled. In France, it is violent, but especially with people of colour. Anyway, people are finally becoming aware because now it’s filmed. It seems to me that it was Will Smith who recently said this sentence: “racism hasn’t changed, it’s just being filmed now” and it’s totally true. Fortunately, this arrest of George Floyd was filmed because otherwise it would have been a case that would have been hushed up again by the authorities.

Besides, very very important point, in France a deputy (I think?) wants to pass a law to forbid the filming of police forces ?! Already that filming them is quite complicated in view of their aggressiveness (despite the fact that we have the right), why forbid it ?? Another stupid idea.

Getting back to the international scene, Anonymous has made a comeback (after a long time). If you don’t know who they are, you can find them on the internet (there’s a lot of information about them, especially at the moment) but basically, they’re a group of hackers – called top 100 hackers in the world – who act anonymously and fight for liberty of speech… and other many values… so they made their comeback by announcing a message related to police violence and the George Floyd affair. After other events such as the hacking of police radio to play the song “Fuck Tha Police”, or the revelation of compromising information from Minneapolis city police officers, but none of these acts were claimed…

It’s the end of May, and it’s time to find out if we’re going back to school! Indeed, it seems to me that tomorrow a minister is going to speak (maybe Édouard Philippe or Jean-Michel Blanquer) to announce how the next steps are going to be taken. So we’re going to know about the classes, if we’re going to go back, and if so, how will it go? Half day by half day? Full days? By whole class or by group?

There’s a lot of uncertainty and we’ll know more tomorrow.
Personally I find it’s pretty hard to predict if we’re going to go back to class or not. I think it’s possible, but that it won’t be beneficial: we’ll learn a little bit, and do a lot of exams I think. We’ll have to do the classes with masks… I think it’s going to be hard to stay focused, or at least it’s going to be very constraining.I want to go back, but more to see my classmates and the teachers, than to do tests.

This week I don’t have much to say, I’m running out of ideas, but I’m still posting! See you next week!

Since the beginning of deconfinement my life hasn’t changed that much. We can go out, etc… but I’ve still kept my old habits. Having spent a lot of time on Netflix, I have the impression that there is nothing to see anymore, whereas it’s the opposite: it’s the same impression when you open a full fridge but you don’t take anything…

My sister came to Paris (she was with my father, my stepmother and my brother in a village) to see my mother just for a weekend. So I was able to see her and my father too, but they left Paris really quickly. Even though they left, I can call them on FaceTime.

Like Netflix, I listened to a lot of French and American music and so now I listen to Italian rap too, because I have an Italian friend who gives me new music. And even if I don’t understand anything, it’s excellent.

Since Tuesday we received our results on Parcoursup, and for real it shocked me: I didn’t think it was that severe. I have good choices, but I’ve been denied a lot of things too, and I have a lot of expectations too. I’m just waiting to move up the list.

See you next week !

Since Monday we’ve been allowed to go out without any attestation, and we can stay as long as we want outside… Knowing that we were allowed to go out at midnight on Monday, at about midnight and 1 minute I was already outside with friends. Since then, I’ve been trying to get out as much as possible while staying protected, because there are a lot of people.

I went also to the hairdresser today because my hair was very, very long. I had to get a ponytail. It’s not bad. It changes my face. In short, everything is fine, but we must not forget that we may start the containment again, and therefore always respect the barrier gestures: we must now learn to live with the virus. By the way, there were a lot of people at the hairdresser’s, and everyone respected the gestures, it was good.

I wanted to come back to Kim Jong’s story : I don’t know if you’ve been following the story of Kim Jong-un’s possible death, but in reality he didn’t die, we don’t know exactly what happened, but I heard some rumors that he may have faked his death to see the reaction of “the country’s elite”, and there may have been a crackdown? True or false, there are more and more questions about this country.

See you next week, I hope everything goes well at home.

Today is April 30. May 11th is less than 2 weeks away… I can’t wait to get out. I am already planning what I will do the same day. If we can go out at 12h, at 12h01 I would be outside, with my friends. Then you have to know that even if we have the right to go out we will have to protect ourselves more than ever because everyone will be outside, it’s not the time to get sick before holidays. Speaking of holidays … we’re going to have problems I think. Anyway, I still plan my vacations but we will have to improvise more or less.

To pass the time I have a schedule that hasn’t changed since the beginning of the quarantine : I wake up, I eat breakfast directly. Then I look at my calendar to find out if I have homework or if I can play. After work, I eat and play. Later I have dinner, I watch a series and then play with my friends. I do some sport before sleeping and I sleep. And then the day begins again.
I go out from time to time but not these last few days because it was raining.

To conclude: I play video games a lot, whereas i had stopped playing. I play sports, I eat more than before. And I’ve never been so much time with friends on the phone. What it changes my life…

The holidays just ended a few days ago, & I wanted to take stock of what happened in the world.

From an international point of view, many things happened in different countries, like United States, China… First, we know that currently the USA are the country with the most cases of coronavirus. Despite the numbers, many American people decided to protest against containment… And Trump decided to support them. Trump wants to make believe that China and the WHO (OMS in French) are responsible for the tragedy that is afflicting his country, therefore he decided to suspend his contribution to WHO, despite the numerous deterrents.

On the other side of the Pacific, more precisely in China, a second wave of epidemic has already started, but we don’t know much.

In North Korea there are rumors that Kim Jong-Un has coronavirus … Info or Intox, we don’t know. A CNN channel quoted US government sources as saying that Washington “was looking for information” and said that Kim Jong Il “could be in grave danger after an operation”. He wasn’t present at important ceremonies … we don’t know more.

It will soon be 2 weeks since the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron took the floor to announce “measures to stop the virus”. Even if he didn’t say the word “confinement”, stress has risen in people’s brains, and animal instinct has been awakened in many people. People rushed to buy everything and anything, for fear of a shortage …

However, other people must not have understood the word “confinement” and went on their best pilgrimage throughout the city. And it’s in the following video that you will be able to observe French stupidity, because the other countries are more disciplined (we are the laughingstock of the world).

C’est la folie pic.twitter.com/MIJSRz07Ir

— MatthieuGB (@MatthieuGB) March 15, 2020

On the other hand, there are good things generated by confinement, above all, in relation to nature which is taking back its rights. Pollution has never been measured so low in 40 years! There are even dolphins that came to Venise near people, in a clear water, like a lagoon.

In addition, the weather is improving day by day, a few days ago, it was 20 degrees !! But we are not allowed to go out ;(

About school, I have the impression that we have more homework than if we had school normally, but it’s ok I still work enough. I heard about online class conference, but we haven’t had one yet, and I don’t know if it’s going to happen, but I think it will be funnier than serious…

Lui il s'investit un peu trop dans ses cours en ligne mdr pic.twitter.com/6LoCIfbWD4

— ZAYFUS ⍟ (@Zayfus) March 24, 2020

New challenges were created, & they are posted on social medias every day, like the FlipTheSwitch challenge, juggling with toilet paper, or posting pictures of yourself when you were young.

Marlon Humphrey really did the #fliptheswitch challenge 🤣

(via @marlon_humphrey)pic.twitter.com/0oEohEdqwY

— The Checkdown (@thecheckdown) March 19, 2020

To conclude, stay at home confined, respect “les gestes barrières” and applaud at 8 pm the caregivers who fight for us. Thanks to those who read and comment on this post 😁.