My name is Yameena Mubarak and I am from Sydney, NSW. I am 12 years old, in year 7 and St George Girls High School. When we were told that it was recommended to stay at home because of COVID-19, at first I was excited. This meant I could sleep in and wake

My name is Yameena Mubarak and I am from Sydney, NSW. I am 12 years old, in year 7 and St George Girls High School. When we were told that it was recommended to stay at home because of COVID-19, at first I was excited. This meant I could sleep in and wake up at 8 am and still be at my desk on time, it was rainbows and unicorns for, like a week, but my envision of this started to fade away. I was missing my friends and teachers, it's not fun being surrounded by 2 siblings for practically 24 hours. My parents were also not really meant to be teachers.

Thank god Australia was able to contain COVID-19, then students in NSW would be allowed to attend school once a week, I was super excited to see my friends again, it's much better than facetiming! Quarantine also taught me some stuff, so it wasn't an all bad experience. Quarantine showed me my passion for baking, I love baking now, I think majority of my time other than school work during quarantine is cooking.

This has been an overwhelming and very interesting experience, that I'll never forget. It's definitely one of the weirdest times of my life, and staying at home is definitely not what I thought I'd be doing today. It's all cool because I just have to keep in mind that, I'm doing this for the betterment of myself and everyone else, but I still can't to be out and about again!