The QuaranTEENS

As promised in the previous post, here are some of my pictures:

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So here are a few examples to prove that I did take pictures 🙂

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 latest weeks wasn’t that uncomfortable for me because the weather was amazing. So I could go out and have fun outside. However, this week that’s not the same. Actually, the weather is horrible, it’s raining the entire day. That get me bored because I can only indoor activities. This is why I rediscovered the passion I had for monopoly when I was a child.

Next to that I try to continue practicing sport. It can be football, tennis, running or fitness. But this week because of the weather, most of the time I do fitness inside 🤷‍♂️. I’m crazy about sport because when I’m practicing sport, it’s the only time of the whole day when I’m thinking about nothing.

Good evening, here I am, again.

It seems that the president read my last post because the Bac exams are, finally, officially canceled. However, I do not agree with the “contrôle continu”. Even if we are not sure of going back in June, if we are “bombarded” by checks, canceling the Bac will have been useless. I am glad that the teachers continue to give notes, even during the quarantine, they allow me to know where I am in my studies, and inform other people which are their issues, but I think that it would be better to make catch-up sessions instead of the controls that await us. Personally I don’t mind but I know there are a lot of people with learning difficulties (go check my last post if u wanna know more about my opinion).

Apart from that, I’m finally able to work, i can say that I missed my 2 weeks of vacation because I was sick from the first to the last day, but hey, it’s not like I could have done many things during this unpleasant confinement. Last week, the weather was wonderful to go out, but now with the rain, this quarantine is really depressing.

However, this large amount of time wasted allowed me to discover activities that I didn’t know I would really enjoy: cooking. It is true that when you do more than pasta, all meals seem so complicated, but in reality it’s not. I made a kind of Top Chef solo version, and frankly, I like that, Couscous, Lasagne, Chicken Curry, stuffed tomatoes, nothing escapes my hand (as long as there is a tutorial on the internet). Maybe I’ll give up the idea of going to Polytechnique to become a kitchen engineer, or something like that.

Well, see you next week. (I have no idea how to end this xD)

My previous articles dealt with the different aspects of confinement. This new article will dwell with the effects of living with confinement. After 44 days of confinement, our contacts with others have been limited, we can’t visit our families, go out with friends or even go out for fun. Some people find it difficult because they feel bored,isolated and lonely.

People are confronted to their fears in view of the actual context, they are scared to be contaminated, to contaminate their loved ones, to see a family member die. Frontline workers whom are directly confronted to the virus, need psychological assistance because it is quit difficult to encounter that type of situation, seing such a number of people suffering, dying and feeling powerless because you can’t save everyone.

I read about a boy in an article who was suffering from a mental illness, he lived with his mother and sisters and with the confinement he couldn’t receive the medical and social assistance he needed so his crisis got even worse and he killed his mom. That happened in Epinay-Sous-Sénart, and it is an example of the kind of psychological effect the confinement has on people their lifes.

Some feel depressed, anxious or get irritated very easily and living in family becomes difficult and respecting everyones private sphere isn’t easy. However confinement shouldn’t be perceived as a punishment, we need to try and planify our days, help the needy people around us, and for those who encounter difficulties, they should be able to get the assistance they need.

27th of April 2020
Recently a weird event just occurred, it would seem that the Pentagon just released publicly three videos of UFOs. The reason why i’m calling out on it is because it is really interesting and odd that the Pentagon, one of the most highly secret information gathering in America just shared something with the rest of the world. Well I know what y’all be thinking, “it’s fake”,”its not real”, and I can totally understand since most of the videos on the internet can be easily deceiving, but moments after the videos were linked, journalists immediately turned themselves to the militaries to ask if the videos are real. Believe it or not they are 100% real, militaries had affirmed that the ones who took those videos were Navy fighter pilots.

We could hear them in the videos completely confused on what they’re seeing, ” it seems that it is rotating…”, “how does it go so fast?”,” it moves in weird ways..”. But apparently, the military are sure that this won’t become a “big thing”, and I asked myself a question, why now of all moments? My point of view would be that since this year have currently been a total mess, throwing out a video like this would seem normal for the rest of the world. I mean hear me out, in January we almost got a third world war, then the death of Kobe Bryant, and then the Corona virus, what’s next … Aliens ? We’ll God bless my soul but if were having a Alien invasion I’ll be with Aliens!

Yesterday, the French Prime Minister, Edouard Philippe, announced, in the National Assembly, the project of deconfinement from Monday, May 11.
For high school students, the return in course is still pending and will be confirmed with the advance of the events and the respect of the rules of security like the adoption of the gestures barrier which consists in the distancing of the people of at least one meter, and mandatory street masking.

Personally, I prefer to take courses remotely to avoid contaminating myself and my whole family. We have many questions about the return to “normal” which are still outstanding.

Yesterday the minister of education spoke on TV about new rules for the deconfinement. We can maybe see the end of it. Apparently teenagers in high school won’t start courses before May 30^th but small kids will on May 11^th. Because of the fact that a lot of people have been touched by the coronavirus in Ile de France, we should be one of the last department to be deconfine, this is so annoying because everybody else will be out, even if we don’t have restaurant or movie theatre it’s gonna be hard to see others outside and free. I’m really scared about summer break because they said that if we go back to school the government will maybe push summer break to have more time at school for children. Anyways now we have to wait till May 7 to see which department will be able to deconfine first even if it’s getting hard to stay at home without seeing a lot of people.

We have been in quarantine for 5 weeks… It’s hard but we need to stay strong physically and psychologically. Indeed, as long as there are no vaccines, drugs, our life will not be the same as before.  

Summer is coming and we have to say goodbye to festivals, concerts… Maybe even to the beach, to pool parties at friends houses… I just turned 18 and I thought summer 2020 was going to be one of the best summers of my life … I was wrong 🙁  

Never make plans, live day by day, it is my new philosophy!!!  

We must protect ourselves and others, so I understand that this measures are essential.  

See you next week!

FIFTH WEEK

Since Monday, every afternoon, I workout for about an hour. My goal is to build muscle for the summer.

I try new recipes everyday. Last Sunday, I made great banana donuts. That was delicious!

Back to school was complicated because of my malfunctioning internet. The problem was finally resolved this weekend.

To keep myself busy when I had free time, I tried to organize my summer vacation. I had to go abroad but I can’t. So I’m going to stay in France, go to my house on the French Riviera with my family and friends. It’s going to be great, if possible.

What I miss the most is to go boat rides with my grandpa. When we go boating it takes us a long time to go out on the sailboat as he lost his sight and can no longer be on his own.

Finally, I hope to finish my final year at school to see my fellow students and my teachers.

Have a good day 🙂