We are some of the lucky ones during Covid19 because we still have jobs, so on the 23rd March when we found ourselves all working from home - myself my husband and our two teenage daughters, I suddenly became familiar with technology I had previously avoi

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kathi
Location

Maroubra NSW 2035
Australia

We are some of the lucky ones during Covid19 because we still have jobs, so on the 23rd March when we found ourselves all working from home - myself my husband and our two teenage daughters, I suddenly became familiar with technology I had previously avoided and thought I could never use.

I turned on Microsoft Teams every day, attending team meetings and mastering the art of turning off the camera and muting the microphone as chaos reigned behind the scenes.

I zoomed Zumba and Yoga and my youngest daughter did a dance class after furiously tidying up our flat and moving everything to the side.

We caught up for Friday work Happy Hour using Webinex although some people didn’t get the new link and sat by themselves in a virtual world while they wondered where everybody was.

We tried to adapt to online schooling although it had it's frustrations like one morning when my older daughter couldn’t attend a class Teams meeting because she couldn’t access the link because she logged out of Edmodo and to reset the password she needed to access Google Classroom and she had logged out of that too.

The NBN has held up pretty well with all of us using it at the same time but there are often refrains of “the net’s down” especially of a morning and some unfortunate captures of people talking midstream.

Early on our local Facebook group was all about dobbing people in who did the “wrong thing" during Covid, like swimming at the beach when it was closed, but I understood their pleas they were doing the right thing why wasn’t everybody else, they had relatives in other countries warning them how much worse it could get.