BUBBLE RECOUNT

MY BUBBLE

Thursday 22nd April 2020

During this lockdown, I am living in a bubble of eight people including me. I live with my mum, dad, my three noisy sisters and my two CRAZY!!! Brothers. Having to do learning at home is ok because there are minimal distractions, but also you can get a lot of work done in one day. Doing work from home can sometimes make you distracted. When you ask for help you’re going to get a reply, but it might be after you have just finished doing your work. 

Even though my siblings can be very annoying, we always get along at the end of the day. There are days where we can be sweet angles to each other, but there are days where we can be mean devils and argue with each other. If we are bored we would tell jokes and mock each other, but sometimes I will play songs on the guitar like “Memories”, “Someone you loved”,” Ed Sheeran Perfect” and “when I was your man” by Bruno Mars. Sometimes I wish these memories would never end.

During a school at home day, we would just meet up with our teachers and have prayer before we move onto our learning. We have to get up before 9:00 am because learning starts at 9:30 am. I have been tired every weekday and the favourite day for me is the weekends, I can sleep in during the morning and wake up to clean and just eat. I never knew school days were more difficult to wake up to from home, normally I would just wake up and not feel tired. Maybe it’s just my body feeling like it’s the holiday still. Hopefully, there will be a cure to COVID - 19 so we can return our normal lives, but also for people to have their jobs back to look after their family.

I have not been in touch with the other people in my family. the only person who does keep in touch with them is my mum. She rings them to see what they’re doing or to see what they wanted from before, or sometimes it’s to celebrate something online. Just like my little cousin’s birthday that we had in March. We all celebrated it together online because we weren’t allowed to go to other people’s houses. I have a brother in Australia who my Mum always keeps in touch with, but that only happens when he is available to call us. If only people were allowed to have their jobs back since we are in Level 3.

Something I realised around the people in my bubble is that we are starting to get along with each other better now than how we used to. We would be sharing a little bit more and not think everything is ours. We are all treated the same way from our parents because they love us, but there is less arguing happening in the house because we all get along with each other. Throughout all the years I’ve been living in this house I think that this is the best year, not only because we get along and play fairly. Also, we treat each other with respect 70%, of us, the other 30% is still arguing screaming their hearts out.

I never knew that learning from home would be very difficult, I have had mistakes and I have learnt from them.
Spending time with my bubble is something that doesn’t happen normally because my dad is always at work most of the days.
So it is a good time to spend time with him and get along and laugh about things. We also get to share the things we love and it’s
good because I have a lot of things in common with my dad. Learning from home such a different experience but you need to get
used to it because there might be another time like this.