Still COVID-19

         When we have no idea of what we can write about, there is nothing easier than writing about the present times. And present times hold hands with covid, even though they should be social distancing, too.

Isn’t everyone tired of being at home? Yes. And don’t get me started on having to wear a mask (although sometimes it is actually helpful to hide some anger emotions). Our freedom has apparently been taken from us for good and it seems that we are almost never going to have it back. 

However, thinking of it, we have spent a lot of time at home. It’s true it can get a bit boring, and, if we are students, we can get overwhelmed by online school, but we have never spent so much time with our close family – ok, we can’t put the whole family together and that’s sad – and, surely, we now have time to do things we like and we couldn’t do before. For instance, I have never read so many books before, because I used to be occupied by school work and now I am able to finish faster!

But it’s obvious I hate to be closed by four walls. Almost everyone (and I’m 99% sure everyone) does. We can’t go and see the beach. We can’t visit big cities (and how I miss going to Porto). We can’t go to school to be with our friends. We can’t see our relatives. But it’s for the bigger good. And, if it isn’t, it’s not hard to believe that it is.

I sometimes wonder how a very tiny little thing, such as a virus, has changed the course of History. But that's how life works, right? Let’s just use that as a weapon to make everything better than it was before.

Afonso Resende, C1 (teacher Natália Galindo) - student at Lancaster College Póvoa de Varzim