At first, when quarantine started, I thought that after a while I would feel bored. But instead I discovered that there is a lot of things that you can do to spend your time creatively. I was happy to fill my time with movies and series. I watched several on my own and with my family too. I also read books that helped me escape from this world and make a new one without any problems. Like the painting that made me feel free and with inner peace. I feel good about exercising and walking in nature. At the same time, due to the French lessons, I realized that I have the opportunity to achieve a lot.

  Quarantine was a difficult time for everyone. So for me. Everything I felt was strange. I experienced different emotions every day. I was emotionally unstable. At the beginning of this situation I was happy since I was thinking about everything I could do without going to school. But that changed and without realizing it, I started to feel bad about myself and was upset almost all day. I didn't share it with anyone since I didn't want them to feel sorry for me. Emotions and psychology in general are difficult to keep in balance but we need to see the glass half full and stay positive and reasonable whatever happens in our lives because only then will we be able to solve our problems.

   Through the program even now that the quarantine is over, we have the opportunity to get to know each other, by telling each other one thing about himself, one of his characteristics or one thing he likes about his character. As it would be a pleasure for everyone to be divided into groups with children from all over the world and through the internet to create games and challenges that everyone can participate in, as well as to make various fun projects. At the same time, it would be a good idea to create our own diary, where we will write down our feelings, experiences or whatever everyone wants and after a while we will post it on a page so that we get to know each other better. Finally, we could have a teleconference with all the children and teachers of the program and so we will have the opportunity to discuss the problems facing each country, everything that concerns us or issues related to the program.

In summary, our quarantine taught us a lot and every day was not the same as the previous one. It was a difficult time but it had beautiful and pleasant parts.

 

To begin with, I spent a lot of time  with  my family by playing board games every night, and I read books which I liked but I did not have the time  to read them when I was going to school. Moreover, I kept in touch with my friends and the children from the Erasmus program through chat or  video calls. I was talking with my friends from the program before  our schools  close ,and they were telling me that  in their country their schools  had already closed and that they were in quarantine. However, except from that we were also talking about what we  were doing during the lockdown. For instance,  my friend from Italy and I were watching series on tv.

 

In addition, when I talked with my friend, and she told me that the schools in Italy were closed because of the pandemic, I did not believe that  they will  close in our country, but  they did. At first, it seemed weird to me until  I understand that we will  get out different from the quarantine, and  it made me have questions about several things, such as what will happen with our school exams at the end of the school year  and  if  I could see again my friends that I made in Italy from the Erasmus program.

 

Also, another thing that I did this period of time , was painting. I did a lot of paintings  and I tidied my room. One other  thing that I  did  during quarantine and I still do, is listening to music  everyday, because  it makes me forget about the things around me and it makes me calm down.

 

In conclusion, through this remarkable experience , I understood that the simplest things in life  are more important than we think they are , they are the ones  that make us happy.

 

Giving shape to time is especially important now, when the future is so shapeless. We do not know whether the virus will continue to rage for weeks or months or, lord help us, on and off for years. We do not know when we will feel safe again but we all should stay positive and productive. Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. It is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next. We can walk through lightly, with little luggage, ready to imagine another world and ready to fight for it.As far as i am concerned, during quarantine i spent plenty of my time conversing with my family and founding current articles that raised my awareness and puzzled me about some things i have never seen them through different perspectives. Additionally,keeping contact with friends, classmates and teachers-via specific apps-,helped me calm down and take all this pandemic easy.My personal advice for all the humans who are struggling with that unprecedented experience, is to be BRAVE ,OPTIMISTIC and generally keep yourself emotionally balanced.To do so, you can call your lovely persons,take up new hobbies, work out, listen to your favorite music, read books, draw,or even  plant .There is no way of us, not  to be the victors of that "war", if we act responsibly.REMEMBER WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER