The QuaranTEENS

On this third week of Ramadan I was still trying to find something useful to do given that I was tired of Fortnite, Warzone and Naruto. At first I got very excited about cooking with my mums, it’s a very instructive way of spending your time I think. But actually, I needed to find another way of spending my time while eating my muffins, my carrot cake and my fondant au white chocolat. By looking at Netflix’s top 10 I found “Top Boy”, a show about drug traffic and gang wars in UK and more specifically in London suburbs. By watching that show I realized how lucky I was and how hard is street life, you can get knifed or get thrown acid on you just because you were trying to provide for your family and criminality is the only thing society has left for you. After finishing the first season I was disappointed to not find a second one, I then spent my free time listening to music coming out from that “world”, the biggest mouvement being « drill ». I recommend you the songs “let’s lurk” by 67 and “Heartache” by jaykae.

Ismael CK

Hi everyone !! Since Monday, confinement has ended (for how long?) And many French people have returned to work. Personally I saw my girlfriend and my best friends again: it was really great to find them !! But very honestly I will always be careful and stay as much as possible at home, although the restrictions have ended, you must always be vigilant and avoid going out unnecessarily. I try to continue to be productive at home by working my lessons (I try) and I continue to play sports. It’s the first time I’ve been out and I’ve found it pretty good that people (at least around my neighborhood) respect the distance and pay attention to others. I hope that the end of this health crisis is approaching so that we can try to return to a normal life … With that, see you next week! (couldn’t find a meme for this post :(.. )

I recently heard that, after the “déconfinement”, a large part of the population ran towards two things: Zara and MacDonalds. I mean, seriously?

I crossed groups of dozens of people to meet this Monday in open spaces, I understand that people are in a hurry to meet again after two long months, but I am afraid that the quarantine was not enough to do that. So, we will know the results in a week (average time of onset of symptoms), I hope the curve goes down, but seeing so carefree, I’m really not sure that we will quickly end up with this virus issue.

The “déconfinement” did not impress me very much, most of the places are still closed, and even if I am able to go out more freely, I feel that the atmosphere is not really “deconfined”, but I think that it arranges things , as with the Cold War, it’s by being afraid that we can prepare for the worst, even if it’s surely not the best solution.

I believe that many people really do not understand what the virus is, there are many who worry too much, and others who don’t care at all.

The only way to overcome a virus, from what I understood from my biology lessons, is to catch it and wait for the immune system to get rid of it. Whether catching it or getting vaccinated, the process is the same. We mostly confine ourselves so that hospitals are not overcrowded, but it is not a matter of life and death for most people either. A flu does much more damage and we don’t even talk about it! Knowing this should be imperative for everyone on the planet.

But hey, I prefer that people are too afraid rather than they underestimate the virus too much. Finally, all of this was to say that the population is not interested enough in the current situation and just suffers the consequences.

Well, we’ll see the evolution of the pandemic in the coming weeks, we will see in my next post if I got it right or if I was too pessimistic.

This week is the first week of end of the lockdown. Actually that’s sound cool and I’m pretty happy about the situation because I fed up with the containment. Today was the first day where I returned to Paris for the beginning of the containment. And it was the first time I go out except in the garden of the hotel where I live these days. But I was surprised about the number of people out whitout any masks or something to protect themselves on the one hand and the others on the other hand. I think that’s not reasonable at all. It’s not because the containment is finished that the virus doesn’t exist anymore.

You will probably find it stupid but when I came back from Paris, I directly washed myself because I was afraid of non-respectful people. If they wanna be contaminated they can but without contaminate me lmao.

Otherwise, it’s been a long time since I sa was the hairdresser. But I decided to let my hair continuing pushing because finally I like this style with longer hair 🤷‍♂️

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.

So, from 11 may it is the end of lockdown in France, so it is time to take more responsibility and respect government conditions even if you do not trust a lot. I think it is especially important to our society, to respect for our own safety, health but also for our loved ones, our entourage. And above all it is important in big cities like Paris, where the population is the largest, where we have the most risk of contamination. So, take your responsibilities for your life and others.

France is already in deconfinement, but I am still in Ukraine. I had to enter France on May 18 but here the confinement is extended until May 22 so I must stay here until at least May 25. Here, the government is stricter, we cannot leave our home without the mask, it is compulsory everywhere, if we do not have the mask, we must pay 17,000 grivny (around 550 €).Schools, day nurseries, universities are closed until September, but the terminals pass the exams at the end of May. In each city, there are block posts that measure the temperature of each person in the cars entering and leaving the city. I see that most people respect the rules, but unfortunately there are still people who think they can do as they want. But I am proud of this country!!!

I hope it ends soon and we can start a new year))).

It’s been 2 days that everyone can go outside without problems and we completely see the different. There is a lot of people in the street with masks and there is so much cars, I wasn’t used to it anymore. I’m really happy because I’m going to see my sister near Tours, it’s been 2 months I miss her a bit. By the way I study a lot my science courses and we still have work to do so we must continue to work hard for the exam in continue.

This week, for our history class we had to read a book in Spanish called “Si me permiten hablar…” by Domitila Chúngara and then work on it. The reason I am talking about it here is that the book has a lot more to me, for the morality of the book that tells how the Bolivian people (miners, farmers, etc) during the years 50 to 80, managed to unite and fight against the big injustices, the governments that were not at all in their favor or capitalism.

The story is told through the testimony of Domitila who lived through this period, she tells the story of the people in general but also of her personal history because she is one of the most influential women during this period.

This story touched me enormously because during the testimony we learn terrible facts like the fact that she lost several of her children but also one of her sisters but also that she was incarcerated and beaten several times for her ideas or to be able to defend her people.

In any case I recommend the book even though it is in Spanish and I don’t know if it has been translated into other languages.

The Lockdown is therefore finished after 1 month and 23 days. But personally I got used to this lifestyle. But I’m happy because I will finally be able to play basketball and crush my enemies. Indeed I am a big fan of basketball. This is why I am called the trigger because I shoot faster than my shadow. So I will be able to hear that soft “Switchhh” noise again. The problem is that during this confinement I gained a lot of weight and I will therefore be heavier on the ground. This is why today I start my diet based on chips in order to stop eating too much salad. The end of this confinement therefore signifies the beginning of the basketball monster AD the Trigger.