Day 63 - Adapting

It’s funny how much you can adapt to a new situation, even when you initially think that you’re never going to adapt! I feel now, two months in, that I’m finally starting to properly adapt to the lockdown. This has become normal life now, so moving back to our previous normal will probably take a whole other period of adaptation! I see that my favourite garden centre will be opening on Monday. While I’m absolutely bursting to head there, I think I might wait until Tuesday or Wednesday as it’ll probably be very busy on the first day.

Thursdays are always busy for me, as I give classes on Zoom from 10am until about 3.30pm. The students are finding it hard to keep their motivation up now, but thankfully we only have about three weeks left of term. Almost all of them have expressed disappointment about potentially having to start college next year online. They all seem to be dying to get back to Ireland, but it currently looks like they won’t get back until January. I think this has affected their motivation too. Watching lectures online at home in Oman was not the type of Irish College experience that they dreamed of!

Thankfully, the sun and blue skies came back today again too. Me and Peter put Rodrigo Y Gabriela on the speaker, sat outside, closed our eyes and pretended we were in Marbella. This was Fiona’s recommendation, and it really worked! It was nice to imagine being abroad on holidays, especially given that it probably won’t happen for another year or so!

In the evening, we watched a film about Brexit, with Benedict Cumberbatch in it. It was great! Although it got me thinking about how all these big news stories from a few months ago have now completely disappeared since Covid-19 arrived. Not that long ago, we were all immersed in Brexit. Now I can’t even remember whether it’s happened yet or not!

This pandemic has really taught me a lot about the difference between what seems important in life and what is important in life!もっと詳しく