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Hello My mame is pedro, and the Last two weeks i Had Winter Holidays, for me the Holidays were a moment of relaxing  and a Freedom time. Because the First Part of the year i was very estrict and very nervous abput everithing. So in this Holidays i thought a Lot about it ando decide to be more relaxed the Rest of the year especially  because of the cuarentine.

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Trying to enjoy "holidays" during quarantine - Irina

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Trying to enjoy "holidays" during quarantine - Irina

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During quarantine, I have been trying to take advantage of all the free time this situation has given me. Although I wanted to, I never payed full attention to taking care of myself during the first term of classes, so I decided to fully commit on doing so while I enjoyed my winter break. I decided to try on some clothes and pretend I was about to go out with friends, because it makes me feel pretty. I also tried to acquire some facial cleaning habits, though I failed. I tried to focus on the things I eat; I looked for healthy options and cooked new meals that I have always wanted to try, but never did. I also started to focus more on practicing how to drive with my brother and my dad, as I need to learn and be good at it in order to gain independence sometime in the future.

These activities I previously mentioned have helped me go through quarantine in an easier way, as I felt happier, and even more relaxed, as I knew I was doing good use of all the free time I have now. I recommend everyone to do so, to take this time to do things you really enjoy and fill your soul, because self-care is the basis of our happiness.

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FOUR teen DAYS

Winter holidays, the most waited fourteen days of the hole scholar year. This particular year I had waited them like never before. I waited them even though I already knew what they will be about, just staying home, off course. Just exactly the same as the other months, but without virtual classes, so it’s definitely a (brief) time for relaxation and disconnection.

Winter vacation last fourteen days, but in fact, they seemed like four days in a row, and I’m not joking.

When we think about holidays, we always tend to visualize this time, as an special one. Don´t we? It seems  like if we desire to change and fixed our lives in just a handful of days. Yes, we are really ambitious subjects.

For me, this year it was totally different. Being in quarantine makes me feel a sort of pressure. The same pressure that I tend to put to myself during vacations. The necessity to fix and squeeze every single minute of the day in order to get things into order, and feel relief. But this time, I was sincere with myself. Maybe not the best choice but definitely the one that my mind and body needed. I didn't do a “productive thing” at all, i just rested like never before.

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This last year was so different to what I expected. Being locked in my house, without the possibility of seeing the people I love, was hard. But the part more difficult, went to adapt to a new way of learning, this one take a por of energy to me.

That is why, this winter break they were so expected by me. In this time we have, I had the possibility of disconnect of the school and the responsibilities, that I had been carrying in this quarantine. One of the ways I got disconnected was sleeping as long as possible. However these last two weeks passed very quickly for me, I would have liked to have had more time for me.

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Having porductive holidays
Hi everyone, this winter holidays that we have of two weeks were very good because we can relaxing and disconected  from all the homework that the teacher gives to us, so in this winter holidays i can sleep more and do the things that i like it also i wacht movies and TV series i had more hours to play we my dogs and stay outside having peace and have a lot of leisure and have fun and good moments with the people that i get around.

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In this winter break, I decided to disconnect a little from the new daily routine with which we already live more than 4 months, since I wanted to relax and rest. Like most of the teenagers of my generation on their holidays I slept too much, I took too many naps. I enjoyed this moment invested in myself in these two weeks I decided to invest in myself doing different exercises like, meditate, do an exercise routine or read a book of my interest , but in my opinion, it was a very short time.

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These winter holidays were a flash. I was waiting for them so badly, but when they finally arrived in a blink of an eye they  vanished. The funny thing is that I am not the only one who felt it like this, in fact it’s the case of almost everyone I’ve spoken with. This got me thinking and I came to the conclusion that it was because of the pandemic and the quarantine that came with it. Since the beginning of the year that we are locked up in our homes, only being able to walk on the street to buy groceries or whatever we need to sustain our lives. During winter holidays, this didn’t change, it was pretty much the same; there wasn’t a change of atmosphere involved, as there was before, I speak about going from spending all day at school and then taking a break and staying at home. This year we haven’t had this change of airs, so we didn’t feel we were taking a break from anything. This is why time didn’t seem to stop or slow down, it just kept going at the same pace since quarantine started.

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Estefani
During these 14 days of winter holidays, which were very short, I decide to relax and not stress, because I thought it was necessary to take a break, since the simple fact of being locked up every day in front of a computer tires me a lot, so I decide to sleep more than necessary.  However I also decided to learn new recipes and watch many movies.

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Locked down holidays:
I don´t know if it is only me but it seems like days in quarantine pass by way quicker. Maybe it is the routine of waking up, attending online classes, maybe if you are lucky you may be able to go walk the dog and then going to sleep; doing the same thing over and over again, seeing always the same faces. Don´t get me wrong I love my family but sometimes I need to take some TIME-OFF from them.

I know that this are hard times for everybody, and social distancing feels like a never-ending story but there not much we can do about it. Winter break felt like a BRIEF breeze of fresh air; little by little I was allowed to go out of my house more, see a couple of my friends and enjoyed some LEISURE time for myself. At times like these you realize how much the little things that maybe we don’t take the time of enjoying in normal circumstances matter. I started to value and enjoy more the time I was able to share with my friends, because at the end I feel like that’s what sticks with you forever, the memories.

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Before the winter break started, I thought I was going to be bored and depressed every day, but luckily that didn’t happen, obviously there were some days where I was bored but not as much as I expected.

This break gave me the opportunity to relax and just take time for myself, hopefully I was able to see some of my friends and for me that was why I didn’t feel sad during the holidays.

Unfortunately, they went really fast and all I want now it’s to continue being on vacations.

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Well, it technically doesn’t. It’s just a period of time without classes, shouldn’t that be great? It’s up to us if it ends up sucking or not. And yes, this is true, but there’s more to it than just not having classes, especially during quarantine. You’ll see, there’s something called sleeping cycle, that’s the time in which you usually fall asleep and wake up. And thing about classes, is that they force you to be up at a certain time (Which by the way, it wasn’t my case, I fell asleep very often in between the classes) But anyways, it gave me at least a single feeling of consistency and a routine I could hold on to, but as soon as I had 2 weeks to wake up whenever I wanted, my sleeping cycle just went to the trashcan in less than 2 days. For the first week I swear I slept around 18 hours a day, I was sleeping like 7 hours twice a day, and it felt awful. Unlike anyone would think, I felt more tired every time I woke up, it wasn’t healthy. I ended up falling asleep at like 5pm and waking up at 00:00am. It was so weird, the days passed by in such a weird way. Only today (or last night) I got to stabilize it. I fell asleep at 10:00pm and woke up at 4:00am. I mean, it’s not necessarily ideal, but it’s definitely better than before, plus I get to be asleep off online classes time. The bad thing tho, is that I have no certainty that this will last, I can easily just fall asleep now and wake up at 9pm and then loose my sleeping cycle once more. And that sucks. I just wish normal classes were back…
Wait, this was supposed to be a winter break blog. I mean, it kinda is, but maybe not what someone would expect in a blog about a winter break. Anyways, I hope this quarantine things ends up soon or I’ll lose my mind…