Diary Entries

Well here I am... Period 8 Friday afternoon, in the computer lab, trying to encourage a group of elite Year 10 students to take on the 'The Diary Files' and demonstrate their prowess with a keyboard. It's been a tough year in teaching. Everyone talks about how Covid 19 has changed the world; how we live, how we work, how we eat, how we socialise but, no-one wants to talk about the things that have stayed the same. Same things will always stay the same regardless of war, plague or natural disaster. When Australia experienced unprecedented bush fires last summer, teenagers still moaned when their parents asked them to do something. They still fell in love, out of love, over love, and they still fought with their friends for saying something about their love. They still played games, even if it was footy on the smoke filled beach at Mallacoota. They still played Pacman, like some sort of 'rebel without a cause' imitator from 1980. Some middle aged dude is probably reliving his own youth, working from home on his computer and playing pacman at the same time, in an attempt to procrastinate on an ardous policy document. Some things never change. Young adults, teetering on the edge of a new world, are all things. They are children. They are adults. They are hopeful and they are hopeless. They hold the future in their hands but feel no responsibility. They mock and condemn their predecessors, making 'Karen' into an insult, with no comprehension of the extraordinary power they possess to control the world with their words. ...and here they are, playing computer games instead of recording it all for the future generations. Such a shame.

I did not like COVID. The reason includes people where dying and that we could not do what we wanted to do. I also really hated online learning, because I like the teacher being there.

In these last few months the world has been through a lot of problems and anxiety with this Covid thing. You could say the world is basically f**ked at this point. Who knows if it will even get better, especially with the increasing covid cases we are seeing around the world. Florida is going to have an especially tough time coming back from this year, as well as China and the rest of the U.S.. Not to mention the amount of deaths from Covid but also the Black Lives Matter protests and Australian bushfires which have also caused a large disruption to this year. There have also been some positive factors to this year like the SpaceX launch which was thankfully successful. One other thing is that school is about to finish where I live. Yay. RIP Kobe Bryant

😡Covid-19 has brought upon tough times for virtually everyone. Its unprecedented arrival has left many people missing friends and family. I was excited when school was transferred to many different forms of online learning, it was a small recession in the amount of work and pressure on us. After a few weeks of 4am nights we had to go back to school, back to the large heaps of work and pressure. But the work was easier and it made more sense. It wasn't bad to be back at school and i could also see all my many friends that I have. Its been a couple months since then and now we might return to lockdown shortly, which wouldn't surprise most of us. But for now its Friday period 8 and I'm about to go gym with the boys after this thoomin' english lesson. We are going to hit back and triceps today and get massive.

2020 has been the hardest year of my life because of all the things that have gone wrong. I really enjoyed home schooling because it gave me more freedom for when to eat and which order to do your work, you can also wake up later. When I had walks after lunch it was fun going around on my bike and finding new ways to go around my block. It was really scary at fist because my mum has very bad asthma so it would of been very bad if she caught COVID-19. Because everyone was at home working, the WIFI was sometimes very bad and it made it difficult to do work. Some of the teachers were not good at giving work because they just emailed the work and said if you have any questions look it up. Most of the shops around me was closed except the food stores. When we got all the food from the shops we had to wipe all of it with wipes. My basketball skills also got a bit worse because I didn't play every day and there was no games on the weekend. After school I was allowed to play online games so we can socialise. Going back to school was hard because we didn't have to make our lunch or recess but now we do. Also waking up early and not playing with my friends in the afternoon was hard to re-adjust back to normal.

Covid sucks cause it has taken away concerts i was planning on going to which included Niall Horan and 5 Seconds Of Summer and that sucks. Covid also cancelled the footy for a bit but then they brought it back but with no fans which sucked, they have brought people back to the footy but only members which is good cause im a member of the South Sydney Rabbitohs. Also my school sucks not gonna lie and its stressfull.

So at school i got an N award warning which is an award that means i didn't complete a heap of worksheets in math. An N award is not a good thing by the way if you get an N award it means you will not receive your ROSA at the end of year 10 so pretty much me doing year 10 would be useless. But its fine because im going to complete all the worksheets that im going to receive and have received. I will feel refreshed after i finish all the work sheets then continue to catch up my future work in maths that i get.

For a very long time I loved school, it was fun, I had friends and I enjoyed the subjects I took. And then COVID-19 hit, everything was in complete and utter chaos. People were fighting over toilet paper, tinned food, pasta. And the worst part of all of this is that people were bringing knives to shopping centres. And then we were sent home from school, we had to ‘social distance’ from each other. Everything was independent and if you needed any help you had to figure it out all by yourself with no help. But I found the thing that pulled me through Corona Virus was my family and doing the things I loved, such as baking, playing sport and cuddling with my dogs. I had found that I became a lot closer with my family as we were all home together. I also baked so much, and I knew it was the thing I always wanted to do. It put me into my happy space. After it seemed like a century, restrictions eased and we were allowed to go back to school, socialize and something everyone wanted to do was see their friends. That’s where we are right, at school with our friends, some restrictions to keep us safe, but most of all HAPPY.

My experience during Covid-19 has been quite confusing for a 14-year-old. The school was shut down for a while which did make it harder to learn but I think that my school coped very well with this situation, but it has been an experience maybe not a good one but it will stick with me for the rest of my life. At the beginning I was still seeing my grandparents but then we started to see them less and less for months at a time just to keep them safe. I started to play a lot more video games during quarantine such as Minecraft and animal crossing. Those games kept me occupied throughout quarantine. Also my neighbourhood was lucky because no one near me got Covid-19 and that meant that most of the places around me were open, we mostly did not order out until we kind of just got sick of staying inside for a month and eating my mums cooking, and we started ordering food a lot, I think Australia was lucky because it did not hit us as hard as England or America. But now Victoria has been hit badly, thankfully NSW has not been hit and we have continued to be able to live life as usual. My thoughts do go to the people who live in the places who have been decimated by the virus. I am thankful that I am not in that situation and worried about the rest of the world.

Covid-19 was bad the first 2 month for everyone. covid-19 was fun and bad but you got to play your game at recess and at lunch.