The QuaranTEENS

We have been quarantined for 3 weeks now and i’m slowly starting to get use to it , but the fact that there’s no football , no basketball is depressing . Hopefully they’ll be back soon . Also my sleeping schedule is quite messed up , 4 AM is my new 10 PM . What worries me the most is the situation with the BAC , we don’t know how it will be , it’s pretty annoying . During this period , i try to keep myself busy as i can but it’s pretty hard , i workout everyday , i do my homework and play video games , and that’s about it . At least with the containment , i can finally finish my series . Be locked up at home is really though , i miss hanging out with my friends , eat outside and go to the gym .Hopefully this situation will be solved as soon as possible

We’ve now been quarantined for 3 weeks and everyone is getting used to the situation. People are reaching daily schedules to occupy themselves so the number of fines concerning the confinement rules are reducing. Meanwhile we are still facing a major issue which is fake news. Some people find pleasure in misinforming other, people mostly spread fake news on twitter and WhatsApp. During this crisis on social media several people proclame themselves doctors, scientist of analyst. Saying the corona virus was created in a laboratory to eradicate the wick part of the population. Others claiming they have special concoctions to cure the virus, and out of fear and desperation some people follow. We mostly thing fake news only comes from social media while even politicians contribute in distorting individuals, like Eric Zemmour who succeeded in making a link between the virus and Muslims saying in suburbs Africans are responsible of the virus spread. Trump is also a great example, he keeps misleading people by spreading fake information during the daily press conference, calling the virus the Chinese virus, he isn’t informed but pretends to be. We are now in a time where we are confronted to a flow of information we should be smart and thoughtful and learn how to dissociate what is true from what is false.

I’ve more or less adapted in two and half weeks of confinement.

Dresscode: Hoodies. But, get this: two groups, inside hoodies and outside hoodies. You must separate them by fit and filth. So, you’ve got your “classy” hoodie and then you’ve got the hoodie that can double as a napkin in an emergency. Wear the same jeans and hoodie all week, who cares! No one is going to see you!!

Schedule: none besides checking Pronote and email hourly. Turns out I’m not an extremely disciplined person. The only schedule I truly adhere to is three meals a day: breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Meals: prepped and delicious. Eating well is all I’ve got!! The highlight of my week was the courier bringing us gourmet coffee beans and I’m not going to lie, I’m also excited for the box of vegetables direct from the farm we get to pick up tomorrow. Wow. This is my life now.

Listen, I don’t want to be the corny teacher who lives for their students but I have an affinity for my job. I’ve realized something: I miss those annoying kids! That, folks, is the hardest part about confinement. No contact with those sweet rascals. In other ways it’s neat, I get to experiment with new ways of teaching and interacting (this blog, ahem) as well as recording my own audiobook for my 7th grade classes. I’m reading Charlotte’s Web to them and they draw me comic strips of what they understood from the chapter. I assure you, the drawings are hilarious. My literature class is making propaganda posters for George Orwell’s Animal Farm. I sit back and watch my inbox fill up with artwork then I frantically respond to every parent confirming the reception of every attached drawing. It’s daunting for someone who once tweeted “I wish everyone would stop sending me emails!! I can’t take it anymore!!”

And what about y’all? What have you begun to enjoy? What have you rediscovered?

My second week was not fun as the first one . The lockdown is more and more painful but we have to respect it. When we go out, we may encounter policemen and they can ask us about the paper (“attestation”) that allows us to go out. It is a bit stressful time. It is difficult because you have the uncomfortable feeling that police is always watching you. Definitely we have to stay at home and to think about new activities inside. I try to keep myself busy by watching series, movies, playing chess or board games. I have improved my games and now I am a chess master! I have also had to do a lot to finalize my “Parcoursup” profile. I have also discovered an old game called: the “jokari”

We play with a ball and a racket but the specificity is that the ball is linked to a small box by an elastic cord. Then you can play alone but I prefer with two players.

What is really missing for me is the lack of freedom. I cannot do what I want to do. I feel like in jail. I miss my family a lot especially my cousins with whom I really like to share time and play games. I suffer from the lack of outside activities such as cinema, theater, bowling, escape games, playing football and so on..

Finally I would have preferred to leave Paris during the lockdown because I could have been with my family and take advantage of this time to be more with them.

This second week of confinement was unbearable. I haven’t been out for 1 week, I feel very bad. I currently live with my father and we don’t get along anymore.

I miss my boyfriend and my friends. Normally, I go out very often with them and not seeing them is very hard to accept. I feel locked up and free to do nothing. This situation made me understand who was important to me.

The reopening of public establishments (nightclub, restaurants) will bring so many people. I think there will be overconsumption that has never existed in the world. Good point for the economy 🙂

I cut my hair by myself with kitchen scissors. The result isn’t so bad :/

To end this article, I give you my #confinementgoals :
What I prefer to do is watching Netflix, sleeping, cooking and playing with my little brother.

It’s the second week that we are in quarantine. And contrary to what I thought at the beginning, I got pretty used to it. Two weeks ago, I thought that it would quickly become boring, even unbearable. However, we get used to it.
Actually, working at home is getting easier. This is probably due to the fact that we had lessons in audio and even videoconference this week.

I still miss seeing friends and going out. But this week, I discovered an application called “House Party” which allows you to see your friends online by video call and even to meet friends of your friends. I found it really cool and I do it quite regularly (every nights lmao). This helps to fill the lack of social life ….

Today is Wednesday, March 25th, the tenth day of “containment”.

Hi, everybody,

Today is Wednesday, April 1th , to be true, I am no longer counting days…

First of all to talk about the man who was affected by covid-19 in my building , i’m not sure how he is going but he’s in a hospital now…

Secondly, my cooking day is on Monday so I cooked two vegetarian pies
( unfortunately ,I didn’t think to takes pictures , but you have to imagine some very good pies haha ).

My week was very much centered on «  Parcousup » that I (thank God) finally finished! I hope to have what I have choice.

To finish, still like last week I practice sport but I have less and less motivation so for that I call some friends and we do sport together 😉
In fact, we have install an application which name is Houseparty and some time we talk together.

Moreover, I found myself a little occupation with my sister we made bracelets :

Good bye, and if you want a bracelet contact me because I have time to loose ;).

Hello everybody, I hope that everything is okey.
I gonna speak about this week of confinement. First, this week was very long , I do not see the end of the week and even less the end of confinement. All my days are the same, in the monrnig I do a bit of sport, the afternoon, I work and the evening I watch my series on Netflix, my serie now is Elite a spanish’s series, I think that everybody knows.
Sometimes for spend time on the evening, I play « baccalauréat » with my mom and my stepfather. This game is very funny because I see how my stepfather do mistakes in the words.
Thank you, and enjoy with your familys

8-How do you think our current situation will change the future of human action ?

Because we are in a moment of serious health crisis, everyone finds themselves in the same situation in France and we can see appear forms of support between people.

There is also a surge of solidarity mainly around the “everyday heroes” who are brought to light like doctors, nursing staff or association staff to help people in difficulty.

But, when returning to normal, we can have two possibilities for the future. 

Either this confinement allow some vocations appear, everyone seems to be connected and interested in their neighbour and we can imagine that some associations for the elderly or doctors will remain in the future and the links which were created during this period will remain or even strengthen. 

Or what will surely happen, knowing the human species is thateveryone will recover their daily life by returning to individualistic behaviour.

Finally, I also hope that the government will be able to make the right decisions for the future and once again focus on people, our country rather than the global economy.

We still have a month to go back to our usual days, but will everything be the same as before? (Spoiler alert: no)

Today I’m going to talk about the repercussions of the “confinement” due to COVID-19 disease, that we’ll normally get next month, specifically in the topic of ​​studies, because this is the area we are the most concerned.

(I wanted to talk about political affairs at this moment in the world, but I didn’t want to be captured by the Chinese government)

We know very well that the 15 million students (schools, colleges, high schools, higher education) will not progress at the same pace, it depends on the nature of work of oneself: there are some who cannot work at home and are used to going to libraries (for the concentration, atmosphere, etc.), others cannot work without the presence of a teacher, while others are “favored” by the habit of working in home. On the other hand, this disease is real ! There are many students (myself included) who are affected by the disease and can no longer work effectively, this can go from simple fatigue to a real weight to carry (in my case I’m always sleepy and basically I can’t work on scientific subjects), not to mention the most dramatic cases (many people who lose their relatives end up upset). However, I think that the online classes system puts in disadvantage mostly the families at the bottom of the pyramid (having economic issues) and the large families: Let’s take an hypothetical case where there is only one computer in a house when there are 5 children who are supposed to be logged in regularly on the school’s website, and even write homework written on the machine,how can they manage to work properly in these conditions? The lack of lessons in a real physical class will further deepen the students studying differences. There will be many late, and many in advance, but unfortunately the day of the return we’ll all be “in the same bathtub”, and those who have been too late will have less than 2 months to catch up with the others, without forgetting the big amount of tests we will have at the back to school.

That’s why I, by the way, am of opinion that the Bac should be done in continuous control, and not in a fixed test, because there would be too many inequalities. Let’s take a simple example: The subject of the “Bac de philo” is entitled “Happiness”. Class A broached this topic at the beginning of the year so they haven’t got too many problems during the control, but class B approached it during time of “confinement”, so generally the chapter was more complicated to understand, and more precisely, let’s take the case of a student X, to whom his computer broke down and cannot read his texts of philosophy on a small screen of telephone. The result is very obvious to understand. Even if we say that the correctors will be more “lenient” when they will note the test, they will be lenient with every student so there will be not really any rebalancing. This is the problem in this year’s bac exams, and there is nothing we can do to make it more balanced unless, I think, we do it in continuous assessment.

Well, I hope the government will find a better solution to this issue.

Grazie e arrivederci.