Paula shares her feelings about being home during the COVID-19 pandemic. She explains that schools in Spain closed when cases increased in Madrid. At first, students were happy about two weeks off, but it has now been over a month of lockdown. Paula tries to maintain a positive outlook by focusing on spending time with family and discovering new hobbies at home.

1. PaulaUrbistondo López
MY FEELINGS
Hi, I’m here in my boring home because I am in a pandemic, because out of home
there is a virus, more exactly the coronavirus. Yeah I know that it’s a silly name for a
virus and it hasn’t got a crown in its head. This virus came from China. When we
knew the news of the virus we weren’t worried at all, we thought that it was
another kind of flu.
But when we knew that the coronavirus was in Italy we started to be scared and
worried. And when it arrived here people didn’t expect it. Especially in Madrid,
there were a lot of cases and after that they decided to close all the schools there.
That week they told us that the roller skating activity was cancelled and some other
sports and some activities.
All people in Spain were really shocked, two days later the schools were closed in
Barcelona including my school. First when our lunchtime monitors told us that the
schools would be closed for two weeks we were happy! Now when I think I was
happy then I don’t understand why. It’s true that they said that it would be just two
weeks. That day when lunchtime finished we were nervous. We asked Cris (our
teacher) if the school would close and she said “I don’t know”. She didn’t know it
because they announced it in the news before telling the teachers, she knew it but
not officially. Then we took all the books and homework to bring home.
Two days later my parents and me went to the airport because my sister was in
England and my parents decided that my sister had to come to Barcelona, so that
day (15th march) my parents and me went to the airport. When we arrived just my
mother went inside the airport and my father and me waited in the car.
Our teachers (Cris and Mireia) created a blog to put homework, posts of
news…Most of the homework was optional before Easter, but there was a science
project that we had to do.

2. After Easter the third term starts and we have evaluative homework and tasks.
Now we are in lockdown, for a month already. Some days we prepare muffins and
for Easter we prepared a cake (mona) with a hen and the eggs.
Of all things that have happened to me there is always something good and great
for example: you are with family, at home you can do awesome things, you can
discover things that you had at home and you didn’t know. You don’t have to think
negative, because if you think negative everything will be much more complicated.