BACCHUS Marsh College student Antonio McLean shares Life in Isolation, excerpts from his blogs written for a class task during isolation. Antonio is publishing these via SHOUT, The Courier's online youth platform.
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Back during term two and our first lockdown, for one of my classes we were writing blogs. The first topic of our blogs was on how we felt about life in isolation. We would describe how we felt during this time and what we did.
Writing this and all of my other blog entries, I was able to release stress and weight off my shoulders.
Another blog entry that we had written was about restrictions slowly easing and my experiences and feelings on how that went. Due to the past lockdown I have felt that I have been able to cope way better with this isolation.
Here are some of my blog thoughts.
It has been around four weeks since isolation started. It wasn't as bad during the holidays because I don't really do much, but when school started it seemed so crazy.
I remember the night before school started back, I had a dream that the world shut down; no school, jobs, holidays, no fun and I wasn't able to go outside anymore.
I woke up the next day and came to my senses, but the dream I had experienced, came to reality in a way.
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Our world is going through an epidemic. I couldn't see my friends, play my sports, I couldn't even go to the pool or the park. I was only able to go for a ride or run by myself or with someone but we had to be far apart.
I thought online school would be fun and easy but that's not really true.
I feel enclosed from the world, I'm stuck in my room for hours on end, doing work and even when it's over I feel the same because a lot of the time I'm way too tired to do anything.
There are positives to isolation as well though, because my family and I have been doing more things together like playing board games, fixing the house up and we even had a jumping castle in our house for fun.
In some way, when this is all over I believe I will somewhat miss this time as it felt as if we were in a different world almost.
Changes in COVID
After weeks of silence and strict restrictions, I was starting to go crazy. I couldn't do anything.
These restrictions have impacted me a lot because a few weeks ago I started to realise how bad this really was.
There was nothing I could do and I was getting so bored just every day repeating the same things: wake up, get ready, do school. Then, when I was finished, it would be so tiring I would just be on my phone. I did this for weeks, I was really starting to miss school and I miss being in a classroom bigger than just me, being able to see and talk to my friends face-to-face.
Finally after last Monday they had announced that restrictions will be eased and we can finally start to do some things.
With the announcement that golf will be opening, I was so thrilled because finally after eight weeks I can get out of the house properly and do something fun.
On Friday my dad and I went to the Eynesbury Golf Course and went to the range and just started hitting. It was so much fun to be doing this. I was nowhere near as good as what I had been but I didn't mind.
These restrictions being eased were the best thing to happen this year because just yesterday I went to dinner at my grandparents' house. It was so good to finally see them.
We played games, laughed and had a good time.
Hopefully we are still able to go back to school on June 9. Even though I will have to wake up earlier and actually put on school uniform it will be worth finally getting more reality back to my life.
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