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My sister and sister-in-law have lost their jobs and are now on the Jobseeker allowance. My sister works in early childhood care and my sister-in-law in a bank. Fortunately, they have husbands with good jobs and good incomes so they are OK.
It hasn't been all bad. People have been drawn closer to one another. I am heartened by how nice people have been. Our little street is bubbling over with warmth.
Cafés have opened up again with restrictions. I've been a few times for lunch. I look forward to spring when I can bask in the sun again at a local café sipping a cappuccino.
The newspapers say the two most popular past times during lockdown have been home renovations and baking sourdough bread.
I have been practising my French - watching films, reading, listening to TED talks in French and having French conversation practice over the phone with a gorgeous international student from Switzerland. She goes back in July. She's here for one year and what a year it's been for her with the bushfires at Christmas and now COVID-19. She's waiting for the borders to open to travel some more.
I am really taken with the ACO (the Australian Chamber Orchestra). They have been regularly posting short performances online from their homes during lockdown one musician at a time. There has even been a cello performance of Bach at the beach! What an exhilarating performance that was with the sound of waves breaking in the background!!! How intimate the performances feel! You get to see the musicians as you wouldn't in a concert on stage. Thank you ACO.
The Sydney Symphony Orchestra has started to do it too, posting short performances online this last week too. Thank you SSO. I am watching and listening.
To be continued.
It hasn't been all bad. People have been drawn closer to one another. I am heartened by how nice people have been. Our little street is bubbling over with warmth.
Cafés have opened up again with restrictions. I've been a few times for lunch. I look forward to spring when I can bask in the sun again at a local café sipping a cappuccino.
The newspapers say the two most popular past times during lockdown have been home renovations and baking sourdough bread.
I have been practising my French - watching films, reading, listening to TED talks in French and having French conversation practice over the phone with a gorgeous international student from Switzerland. She goes back in July. She's here for one year and what a year it's been for her with the bushfires at Christmas and now COVID-19. She's waiting for the borders to open to travel some more.
I am really taken with the ACO (the Australian Chamber Orchestra). They have been regularly posting short performances online from their homes during lockdown one musician at a time. There has even been a cello performance of Bach at the beach! What an exhilarating performance that was with the sound of waves breaking in the background!!! How intimate the performances feel! You get to see the musicians as you wouldn't in a concert on stage. Thank you ACO.
The Sydney Symphony Orchestra has started to do it too, posting short performances online this last week too. Thank you SSO. I am watching and listening.
To be continued.