The QuaranTEENS

My quarantine started in a very stressful way for me, my brother Yunes came back from Spain and started living with us. A few days after he moved in, one of he’s best friends in Madrid was diagnosed positive to COVID-19 so he taught that he surely had it too. After that, I realized how much free time this quarantine gave me so I decided to end the anime “Naruto”, thing that I had been trying to do since summer break but I couldn’t achieve because of work . Finally, this tuesday I had an extra scholar math class trough Skype. We were only there : the teacher and another student, a female student, and I kind of had a big big crush on her. I don’t know if the quarantine is driving me crazy, but I think I’m in love with her.

personally I think that confinement is a good way to get to know your family by making it board games for example. On the other hand, work at home I do not validate at all, I prefer to have direct contact with my teachers. Apart from my work schedules I practice music, in fact today I released my mixtape called “La gachette”. It is composed of 5 titles. The rest of my time I play Fifa in order to do sports because you have to keep a good balance in life. I sleep about fourteen hours a night so that I can feel fit the next day to be strong at fifa. I live very well the confinement even if I stress a little for the baccalaureat.

It has been now more than a week that we are in quarantine. That’s why our daily life has changed. Thanks to my father who is an hotel manager, I have the luck to be confined with my family in the Hotel that he manage rather than being confined in our flat. Actually that’s a great advantage because there is much more space than in an appartement. So, I can go out in the garden of the hotel, spend time in the swimming pool and the sauna and even practicing sport as football with my lil bro for example. I’ve even learned to dance with him lmao. Here is the link if you guys wanna see us dancing 😉

However, there are still negative points to this even if I’m not the less lucky… Firstly, we don’t have any social life except with our families. I really miss my best friends. Even if we FaceTime each other every nights, I miss the real contact with them. Then, it’s a bit harsh to work in some classes because we don’t have oral explanations anymore… But we don’t have to lose hope and continue to work everyday.

But for me, the most difficult thing since the beginning of the containment is that there is no Paris Saint Germain football games. Actually I’m a great fan of PSG since my childhood because I have been watching games with my daddy since I was born…. and I was habited to go to the stadium 🤷‍♂️.

However I’m conscient of the risks, that’s why I have to accept all these negatives points and stay confined to have a better life as soon as possible…

So the first week has just ended and they tell us that it will be the first of a long serie. Since my parents are teleworking and my brother refuses to leave London ignoring any kind of solidarity towards his little sister forced to stay alone with her parents, I’m all alone with the cat. I’m not someone who loves to stay at home especially when I’m forced to. So after having reorganized my wardrobe, my bathroom and my library for the tenth time, after completing the tenth displacement certificate to have the right to walk down and up my street, I was out of idea. I’m even starting to consider putting dog ears on the cat to go for a walk. More seriously, I’m getting tired of people speaking only of the virus all day long and I really miss all the people I love, I even miss school (for real !!). But I see my father more often, I learn to cook and I meet people from my building : my mother has almost adopted a young boy who lives alone in a small studio, I think she wants to marry us… I’ll give you news next week, while waiting STAY AT HOME that we can finish with it !

It’s been a whole week since quarantine has started and i’m already tired of it . I thought that it would be cool not to go to school for a bunch of days and in a way i like it but i’d rather go to school than be locked at home .

It’s hard to find the motivation to continue my homework but i’m handling it quite well . At least with the containment , i can spend more time with my family . That’s about it for the advantages of the containment . It’s a tough time for me , there’s no more sports on TV , i can’t go to the gym anymore and i can’t spend time with my friends . But what we have to do is stay home to stay safe . What intrigues me the most is that some people can’t understand that they must stay at home so that the number of infected decreases .

Source of the meme : https://starecat.com/coronavirus-memes-government-stay-inside-half-of-the-us-population-catch-me-outside-how-about-that/

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 😁.

We’ve been quarantined for more than a week now. Time doesn’t really go fast when you are locked in for an indefinite time. I spite of my, trying to desperately keep a regular timetable, there are times when i do not do anything. Since we are not going to school anymore, I try to study as much as i can even if it’s kind of hard and boring. In order to fill this lack of knowledge owed to the closure of schools, I often read books in French, English, or even Spanish not to lose my laguage level.

I spend half of my time on Netflix or Amazon Prime Video.

I’m currently watching for the second time The Mentalist which is my favourite tv show, I strongly recommend you to watch it !

The other half of my time is dedicated to video games and to the piano. Indeed, these are the two things that are helping me to relax and to stay pshycologically sane. It kills the time and it’s a way to be creative.

I’m not really stressed about what is happening. I’m sure that things will be better. I’m kind of optimistic. I may be nervous about next year, or about the bac, but the goverment will figure it out, they’ll find a solution. I stay informed about what is happening thanks to youtube channels which are posting daily reviews of what is going on in our country and around the world, or news channels.

I haven’t been out of my home for days, I’m not longer couting the days. At the begining, In my opinion nobody was realizing and aware of what was happening. We were even happy and excited about not going to school. On the contrary, now, we all want to go out, and therefor, I’m sure that we are all looking forward to go back to school.

We’ve now been confined for several days and I’m really over it. I know that this is necessary in order to reduce the rate of contaminated people in France but it is really complicated for me not to go outside, to see my friends and especially to enjoy the good weather.I think that like everybody I don’t do extremely interesting things I go to bed very late and get up very late then I eat I do my homework I watch a show and really if I get bored I do sports.

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Being confined is really atrocious because for example our working method has completely changed I feel overwhelmed with work we have all the time a lot of things to do it requires a lot of responsibility but I do it because I don’t want to be late.The positive point is that I enjoy it a lot with my family, we play a lot of board games together and it’s a very pleasant atmosphere because we laugh and have fun.

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It gives me great pleasure to hear the applause at 8 p.m. It shows us that even in a very difficult time to survive, that is to say locked in the house, we unite to please the workers like the doctors or those who work in the supermarkets who fight for us and that is why we must stay at home because if they take the risk of leaving their house in the middle of a virus, it is for the good of the people.

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We’ve been quarantine for now 9 days, because of the corona crisis. People react differently through the situation, some respect the rules and stay at home, others behave irresponsibly and keep going out for no good reason. In my opinion people who don’t respect the confinement haven’t yet realize how serious the situation is, because no reasonable person will keep going out wandering in the street during such a time. Staying home is a sacrifice will should all do, for our health, for our families and especially for the doctors and nurses, they already have a lot of cases which are difficult to handle we shouldn’t be another load for the health care system. During this period I keep myself occupied, I study, read books ( I’m now reading La vie devant soi of Romain Gary), I watch my series and movies, I listen to music. I also do my makeup and take pictures, if I get a good camera I will soon launch a YouTube channel. The confinement isn’t really a big issue for me because I am used to staying at home but I can understand it isn’t everyone’s case. I couldn’t stay without posting a picture 🤣

bisous bisous la famille

I am not afraid of the virus personally. But my grandfather already has breathing assistance so I worry much more about him. Also, we do the shopping for my grandparents in order that he doesn’t take any risks.

Regarding my father, actually in Brazil, he has asthma and he works in the maintenance of hospitals so he can’t stop working and go back to France. I am worried because Brazil has not yet implemented total containment and the quality of health services is different from France.

I got used to this new life: I force myself to keep a good rhythm of life with an alarm clock in the morning, fixed schedules for balanced meals and practicing sports. I am lucky to have a garden so I can get some fresh air while respecting containment.
This epidemic and this confinement made possible, on the one hand, to bring out the human side of society with all these solidarity actions, but also to see the consequences of government decisions by reducing health budgets.