A young person discusses their experience of staying at home during the Covid-19 pandemic. 

How did the COVID-19 pandemic affect you? It didn't really affect me. I still, like, still stayed in contact with my friends. The only thing that happened was we had to go online for school, and I didn't really have the motivation in the second year of Covid to go to online school. So my mom thought it was best to go back to, like in person that they were letting us have

But we still had to wear like masks and sanitise every time we could and only take masks off like during the meeting. Was it difficult to go back to school after staying in online school? Yeah, because on in online school we could You could wake up whenever you want because they just put assignments in the thing and had videos already premade. So it was hard to be like getting started to get up early and like being social again instead of just hanging around around my family

Was it easy to learn over online school, or was it hard on? I don't think I learned anything. I think I just, like, repeated the stuff that they already taught us earlier in the year. Mm How long did the online schooling last? It lasted, like for one full year, and then it went on and off for the next year

Mhm. How did how was it to be in isolation If you could call that it was your family? It didn't feel really like isolation because I live on, like, a big acreage. And so, like, there's lots of room to spread out

Like my whole family. We could be somewhere and feel like we're not even there because we have horses. We could go for a ride, so it didn't really feel like lockdown in my own home

And how did it affect you going into the city and stuff? You just had to wear masks everywhere, and I have to keep distance. It didn't really affect anything else except for, like having to wait outside because the limit was reached. Is there something about the pandemic that affected you or your family? That was difficult

Um, my grandma actually, like she had lung problems, so she was really scared of getting covid. So she got like, the vaccine as soon as she could, and she got, like, our whole family on board with getting the vaccine. And so whenever we could, we got the vaccine, and she had we had to bring groceries to her because she was too scared to go out and, like, get it herself

Because she's, like, elderly elderly. Yeah. Yeah

What did you do in your normal life at home during the pandemic? Oh, mostly, just, like, sat in my bed because I didn't have motivation to do much else. Um, after the like, after there were less restrictions, did you become more active? And how did it affect your health? Mentally and physically, I got more active, like I started going to like after school sports again. And my friends came over a lot

So it's like, started getting me, like, less, like, stuck in my mental health and stuff like I actually wanted to do stuff mhm. After you started to become more, um, acts of the Jew signed the motivation to learn more in school and focus more. And so I still like I never actually like got the motivation for school back because it because we could go online at any time

So we had no motivation to actually go in on my go in in person school. Mm. How What? What kind of, um, like mood was in the classroom when you said it? It wasn't It was, like, really sombre

Like everyone was quiet, like no one was like. So then it changed a lot after the after you came back. So yeah, it started getting like everyone started talking again, like, less depressed from the covid

But it's still quiet. Yes.

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