The QuaranTEENS

Last week nothing really changed for me.

I continued to visit castles in Ile de France. On Sunday, I visited the castle of Vaux-le-Vicomte. What a beautiful castle ! When I arrived in front of it, my first impression was to see a masterpiece.  As you need tickets (that you have to reserve by internet), few people have them and therefore there are not many people in the castle. Therefore, we had room and time to visit.

Otherwise I tried to go and see some friends, but it was not so easy because some of them were still afraid of coronavirus. When I was with friends, it was good because it has been a long time since we did not spend time together and we had a lot of things to share but we missed time to talk about everything.

Since a few days now, temperatures have significantly risen and it is really nice to go out except for doing sports because the heat becomes quickly painful. Moreover with the rise in temperatures the virus could disappear faster and normal life could be back soon! According to an article that I read, there is 75% chance that 2020 should be the warmest year during the last 140 years.

I have also met some of my family members and it was really nice because we could eat, talk and share nice moments all together. As many people, we talked a lot about series! I effectively think that everybody spent watching movies and series. I go out more and more but I am always careful and keep a safe distance. When I walk around, I stay far enough away from people and try to keep my hands clean as long as possible.

This week was full of stress, with the last homework before the last class council, the results of the courseup that will decide our future and other personal stresses. For several days, all my wishes were on the waiting list, but I was not so badly ranked with the number of people who had applied for the same studies. I’m writing this post a little ahead of time, so I don’t know when I’ll have applications.

During the week the weather was great, I took the opportunity to sunbathe, I could already see myself in summer on the beach, only it’s not the case, I still have to wait more than a month. #Sad

To get some fresh air, with my parents we went to my aunt’s house who lives outside the city, she has a big garden, a swimming pool and paths not far away to go for a walk. It’s a change from my building in Paris, even though I’m very attached to it.

Good afternoon. Today I just wanted to ask you what were your plans for the future: studies, professional life, personal things you think you could and maybe will improve. Concerning studies, I am 99.9% sure I’m going to do a CPGE (Classe Préparatoire aux Grandes Écoles or 2-3 relatively hard years before going to an engineering school) and then an engineering school where I would like to study electronics, mainly. Then, I guess apply for an electronician’s or electronic engineer’s job and a few years later create my own startup that I have been thinking about for years, which will be about R&D, innovation and many projects. I hope, like anyone else I guess, to succeed as much as I can.

For now, Parcoursup is very stressful. Not only for the students, but apparently for mothers (if I’m living it, anyone might as well be living with it too), brothers, sisters, fathers etc. I actually know exactly that I wanted to do a CPGE, and initially my mother said “ok”, at least she agreed. But 3 days before I clicked on the “confirm” button for the admission proposition for I wanted, she started going MENTAL (which is common, but she never gets as angry as she was this time) because I had 2 choices: CPGE, or a course a school proposed that clearly had hundreds of advantages over CPGE. No one understood why I wanted CPGE more than the other choice, it wasn’t totally clear to me either. But I chose want I wanted to do anyway, and my mother’s reaction to that was not as bad as I thought it would be.

Anyway, how about leaving a comment about what you want to do for studies, in your professional life, when you think you’re going to buy in your own place, how it would look like, etc. I mean just tell your life plans and projects!

See you soon!

Brahms

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 !

It’s the second week after the lockdown ended and nothing really changed for me. I still stay at my crib all day long, except when i need to go at the supermarket. I’m waiting for the results since the start of the end of lockdown to see if we can safely go outside, I don’t want a second wave of COVID cases so i’m being careful and go out only when i need it . This week, parcoursup has officially started to give us the results of our admission request. The next 2 months will be sprayed with stress, to see if we’ll end up where we wanted to go.

20th of May was my birthday, I turned 18. It was a nice day I celebrated it with my family and I went out, I would have liked to see my best friends but that wasn’t possible. I expected to feel a difference getting to adulthood but that wasn’t the case 🤣

Lemme show you guys how peng I was 😎

The lockdown is over since 2 weeks, we can’t really evaluate if the number of cases has increased or not because the incubation period of the virus is about 8 days, so we may get an idea by the end of the week. Several clusters have been detected all across France, the sanitary services work to get to know with whom the people have been in contact so they can isolate them and avoid getting more people contaminated.

During this period the number of violence commited by the police has increased in France, I can understand that some people might behave awkwardly but that isn’t a reason to brutalise them has some police people do. People should be treated equally no matter they ethnicity, social status, gender.

stay safe, and see you next week

Recently mister Macron decided to take off the lockdown, we are now able to go 100 Kilometres around our homes without permission. I don’t know if I’m supposed to be happy about it or not. I’m happy to see my friends again and play basketball again that’s sure. But I don’t think that this country or any country at all is ready to face COVID again and ending the lockdown is without any doubt going to provoke a second wave of COVID cases. That’s my opinion in any case, given that French people are not showing the most responsible behaviour against this virus. Going out without vital reason, meeting with friends during the lockdown, etc. Indeed, I think that this irresponsible decision of the government represents perfectly the irresponsible behaviour of its people. In conclusion even after all the danger that this end of lockdown represents, I’m still a little bit happy because I can meet with my homies again, and it’s been a long long time. We can also assume that this end of lockdown is the first step to coming back to school and coming back to my favourites classes beyond all: English classes.

It is already more one week that the end of lockdown has begun. Many of the stores have opened since May 11 (like Zara, Mango etc).   I saw on twitter the video that there were line up at the entrance of Zara in Bordeaux and in Paris but people respected the distances.

There are many people who have criticized but I think that ‘is a good sign because for everyone the confinement was difficult and we need we to clear our brains in addition, during sales there are much longer lines up. As soon as people follow the rules, there is nothing WRONG. Public transport has started to circulate more recently but nevertheless it does not circulate 100% as before, in addition with “peak hours” it is difficult to circulate freely. But nevertheless, now we can go out more freely and without certification, even if we cannot go more than 100km from our home. Shopping centres will also open (the Beaugrenelle centre has already been open today except the cinema and the), as do small museums. Some restaurants take out.

We are slowly starting to recover, and I hope we will succeed.

This week was really intense for me I went to Chinon with my parents by car to see my sister Alice. She was locked down with a friend of hers called Alix in the countryside in a family castle. I didn’t see her for 9 weeks and it was really hard to not cry in front of her because my mum did. We spent three days in this castle, it was really peaceful to be in the countryside I did so many activities like bicycle in the fields. Now I have sunburns but it’s a bad for a good because after that I’ll be tanned and believe it or not it’s really hard for me to be tanned😅😂 

It has been a few days that we’re not anymore in containment. So we can now go out to do whatever we want except all activities or places where there is plenty of people.I went out a bit because it’s good for our health. If you stay at home every time during a too long time, you become crazy. When I went out I respected the security rules by wearing a mask, and staying not too close from the others.

However, I was surprised about the number of people who don’t even give a little little bit importance for the virus. I saw old people meet their friends with no mask, hugging, kissing on the cheek, shaking hands etc, while they are the most exposed to the risks of coronavirus. That’s unbelievable…

Even if we may go out, I don’t find a lot of things to do because mostly everything is closed. So when I go out it is mainly to get some fresh air while respecting the safety rules. However, I miss too much going to bars, restaurants and even more fast foods with my friends. I have a lot of five guys, mc donald’s or stake & shake planned. We’re just waiting for the end of the virus and the opening.