Diary Entries

Today was tiring, I stayed up late finishing an English essay which was comparing 'To kill a mockingbird' and the film adaption of 'Jasper Jones'. I also read some more of a book I'm currently reading, it's not fluffy and weirder than I would have liked but I still like it. I am a little stressed about the maths test and the hsc minimum standards but I'm sure I'll be fine. School was reasonable, we made sweet potato gnocchi in food technologies and my friends have organised to meet up at a beach this weekend. It is five pm and the air freezes your chest, my feet are so cold. The sky is dark and I have done no homework, but I'm just assuming that I will do it after dinner.

2020 started full of hope. A new year of opportunity, plans waiting to happen. Then the whispers started about a virus, whispers that grew so loud that they become a deafening roar that was heard across the world. Pandemic. A word many had never heard that was now part of our everyday vocabulary. For me, as a teacher, it turned my world on it's head. At school with only a few children, we pivoted, our face-to-face connections with students became a flurry of phone calls, Zooms and packs-to-go as we worked to keep the learning alive. I felt like I was in a state of suspended animation while we waited to see what each day would bring. My consternation was offset by the peace of isolation at home, a time to embrace the quiet and treasure my family. Now, as life begins to return to 'normal', I will hold on to the lessons of these past few months and use them to shape a fresh outlook on life.

2020... OK not many of you would believe me but I thought that 2020 would be amazing because my footy teams were going well and I was having so much fun with my friends playing games and stuff. But then the fires started, and houses started burning, people as well, and we were hoping for rain. It took a while but the rain came, and just kept on coming until it started to flood. Houses were now destroyed by the water, luckily there was not too many. Then the water died off quickly and it got back to normal. We went back to school and my friends were telling jokes about corona virus turning into a pandemic. The days went on and they weren't telling as many jokes. Then about a week later there was a positive test in Australia and more and more. It was a bit like the floods but worse. A little bit after we were stuck indoors. It sucked! I couldn't see my friends, cousins, aunties, uncles, grandparents. The days went on exactly the same until there were less people testing positive and it got back to normal I got to see my friends and family, and footy started again!!! I'm so glad corona is dying, So what I say to corona is sucked in.

2020 started with hope, new dreams and my next year of school. The worst thing about 2020 was that there was a virus, it was called covid 19 or corona virus. It's the worst... you can die from it, and you have to clean your hands with sanitizer or soap like ten times a day before you can go to your relatives places, and after breaks at school or when you out in public. I decided to go to sleep early because I wanted to try to stop thinking about the deadly virus. i woke up to this terrible noise. Oh no! not the news again. Poppy Trev! You put the news on before I woke up so I wake up and I can hear the news, I"d rather wake up to silence. Wahhhhhhhh! Oh no my baby cousin Charli is crying again. I run up the stairs and go in to where Charli is sleeping and pick her up and go to the couch to try to put her to sleep when covid 19 is still here. We are both so tired we fall asleep. I dream of a better future for her and all of us.

Waking up... I hate waking up, especially to a virus that's destroying humanity!(Covid-19) It's really bugging me like a fly hanging around your food at dinner. I was so looking foreword to do so many things this year but Corona virus had a different idea and decided to be the BIGGEST party pooper ever! 2020 so far... well, I'm not enjoying it, nobody else is enjoying it and I'm stuck in my house while Covid-19 is doing its thing out there.i really thought 2020 would be a GREAT year but oh! was i wrong! I love food. It's really hard trying to pick out what to eat and I mean really hard! My favorite food is a waffle, though it has been a while since I had one. It's also a nickname I gave to myself (not sure if that's allowed.) I love my pets, I must have a whole farm inside my house of all the pets I have. Every time I see my cat I can't help but snuggle her. My favourite animal is a giraffe. I'm a little obsessed with them. I really hated this year maybe the next year will be better. Maybe I'll get a giraffe!

2020 started like a spark of hope in the embers of a dying fire. There were snatches of gossip about an illness in China, but no one fretted or worried. Until now. My hands always seem to have the faint odour of hand sanitiser and it feels like the borders shall never open. Now festivals and plane flight are just a distant memory shoved to the very back corner of our minds. That sky blue colour was a nice shade but they had to ruin it by plastering it against the masks that so many people wear concealing their faces and emotions. Will it ever end? I ask myself as I gaze out the window, Mum droning on about early Australian settlement or something. Will our lives ever return to how they were before? Will the bottles of sanitiser ever be removed from the classrooms? Will people ever meet their friends face-to-face instead of just on Zoom? I ask myself as I stare into the endless future.

Quack, the word I say nearly every 10 seconds not like other people, and yeah yeah, everyone's scared because 'Covid-19' continues to spread around the world. Meanwhile I get bored since I only get 2 hours of game time and 6 hours of school. Except when the New South Wales Premier (I think) or the Prime Minister 'Scott Morrison' said to do home learning which was completely BORING! Since we had to do small amounts of work taking like 1 or 2 hours to do making me have to wait like 10 hours to play, anyway it was better than nothing. So right now its just 'Stay at home' and 'Wash hands' and 'Don't buy all the stock at the shops so other people can't buy things' as I continue to do nothing until I can play My Summer Car, Roblox or Brick Rigs and then continue to be BORED! So I guess I'll just say quack and hope for the best :D.

2020 was not the best year. It all started when small flames become raging fires that spread across the land. The fires seemed like they were never going to stop. But then hope came in the form of rain. Water spewed out of the sky like tears after a loved ones death.But the rain turned into storms that filled the rivers to their breaking point. The water dangerously lapped at roads, bridges, houses and people. But a storm never lasts for ever, soon the sky got filled with sun shine. Life was good, then word blew into town about a virus. This virus was called Corona virus or Covid19. It wasn't a big deal though, people just joked about it. But then everything changed... Corona spread people started dropping like flies. Every thing got locked down or got cancelled. But that's in the past, now we can go back to school and see other people. Sadly not all countries are as good. But I think things are looking up. Hopefully every thing can get back to normal one day or another. I hope everyone is okay. Any way, thank's for listening.

I wake up, the sun shining in my eyes. I walk out and see the news on. Covid-19 again I thought. And I was right. Everyday it's on. "Why not one day without it?" I murmured. But life goes on. I walk over and feed the rabbits. Ouch! It bit me on my finger! Suddenly I noticed a cockroach on the ground. I have a fear of cockroaches so ran away and screamed. I ran outside and my annoying brother was there. What else in my life could go horribly wrong? Plop! Yuck, now I have bird poop on my head. "Can something good happen in this day?!" I whispered. I just hope tomorrow is a much better day. But for now, I have to wait 24 hours until tomorrow. But I'm still feeling very happy that the virus is going away slowly.

2020 was supposed to be a good year but sadly, it wasn't. During the time up until now, lots of bad things have happened. Covid 19 started up, my great grandmother passed away and school got cancelled. Well, maybe the last one wasn't that bad. But you know what I mean. There is a bright side to all this, though. The other day, we saw about two wallabies and we barely ever see those! There also used to be so much smog in China, but now since nobody has been out as much as they used to, it cleared up! This world is becoming brighter by the second! Well, yeah, 2020 has been pretty bad so far, but its also kind of been good. I also hope that next year Covid 19 is just the past.