A young girl from Poland talks about her experiences of lockdown

Hello. Nice to meet you. Hello. Hello

First of all, uh, I would like to know what is your name, And, uh, where do you come from? Uh, my name is Natalia, and I'm from Holland, but, uh, I live in France. Uh, and I moved, uh, two years ago. Ok, OK, two years ago

So, as you know, we are chatting today about the pandemic. Um uh, impact on of people. And, uh, I would like to ask you how the pandemic has changed your life

Uh, it was a really big influence, I think. The first lockdown I lived in Poland, and it was really sad because, uh, I used to be at the university with my, uh, friends, uh, made a party. We made a party, and after during the virus, uh, we stopped

There was really nothing at, uh, and it was really difficult to meet the friends to hanging out and, uh, to go, for example, to the bar thing was closed and and after I moved to France and I spend it, uh, the second and the third one, the lockdown in France. And it was, uh I think it was better because I lived in the, um, students. Um uh, accommodation, uh, accommodation for the students and even the bar was closed

Even the clubs was closed. I met a lot of people there, and, um, I, uh I had a really good time with them because it was something new for me. Friends

And even if, uh, we had a lockdown in France, I spent it. I didn't spend the time alone, so it was OK, I think. But it's a different point of view because I moved to another country and I discovered, uh, another another life, Another world

So, uh, I think I'm not a good example for, um, it was it wasn't sad in Poland. It was sad, really. But in France, after it was OK, so the pandemic makes you change of your, uh, country of your of your town of living of it was an independent choice

No, it wasn't. It was independent because I decided to go to Erasmo to exchange, uh, even during the pandemic, because, uh, I told you that even it was the pandemic. I I wanted to, um, go to the go to France, and, uh, I was scared that I I will know anybody and, uh, that it it will be difficult because we had the classes online too

But after I met a lot of people and it was really cool. So, um, pandemic changed my life in Poland, But in France, uh, it was, uh, always OK, OK, so pandemic didn't stop here? No. No

And you made your choices. May even during the pandemic, I travelled a lot in France. Uh, I was in Spain, and in France, we had a lockdown in Spain

There wasn't a lockdown. So, uh, OK, I made made the test. Uh uh uh covid test, but, uh, it was a little bit complicated

That's normal in normal life, but no, I I was OK. Great, great. Great

So also, when you are talking about your your relationship with friends with family, it's it changed, or during this period, or it was like like Oh, so I met a new friends in France. I leave my friends in Poland and I had the contact with them online. But it's not about, uh it wasn't important that it was pandemic or not because I was in France

They was in Poland, so I had the contact with them online only online. But in the normal situation, it it would be like that also. So, uh, and in France, I made a new friends

So it's changed, I think. I think. Ok, maybe positive

Maybe positive There was in the clubs there was in the bars, but we made the Sorry. Maybe I couldn't say it, but we made a party as well, so Yeah, OK. OK

So what do you think? How is your life right now? After after this period, something has changed. What? What do you feel now? After, um after my Erasmus, I, uh, moved to Corsica and I worked there, and it, uh, in Corsica. I didn't feel the pandemic because I worked there

Uh, we didn't put the masks. Uh, nothing at all. I work in the hotel, but after in France, it was obligatory to have a vaccine to, and I didn't have a choice because, uh, normally in Poland, the people have a choice

And in France now, because if I want to go to the bar, I want to go to the restaurant. I must have the green pass and, uh, my chef in my work told me that I must have the, uh, vaccine to continue my work. That was not so easy for me because I didn't want

And at least I had to do it, um, because of my work because of the money. And it was a little bit difficult for me, but OK. And in France, even now we must have the, um, green pass to enter everywhere in the museum, in the cinema, in the restaurant, everywhere, really everywhere

And I heard about that that in France, they want to, um, check the green pass, even in the past and even the metro. So it's a little bit more complicated than that. I'm OK because I have a vaccine now and I have my green pass, but I know now I must to do my fat dose, but it's obligatory for me

If I want to live normal, normally I must to do it. So I think we must to take, uh um, we must to use to switch the, um the government and the you know, the life. So it's OK

And do you want to add something to to your to your story? To your sensations about pandemic periods? No, I think it's all for me. It was, uh it influenced me a little bit, but not so much because I changed my life. So it wasn't so bad

Like for people who stayed at home during the the month for me, it was really OK. OK, great. Thank you

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