Quarantine Week 4: Our Daily Bread

Several days a week, we walk down to Obkirchergasse, a ten minute walk, to buy bread at one of the four bakeries located on the street.  The dinkle bread - bread from an ancient whole grain - remains our favourite. We have adapted to this European ritual of fresh made bread.  Over the last few weeks we extended those purchases to include pan a la chocolate, pudding, French cake, cheese cake or any other eye-catching (emotion-numbing) treat.

I continue to find it surreal to see all the masks and the police people everywhere as we go.   But the bread definitely takes the edge off.

Quarantine: Day 15 (Emily)

DISTANCE LEARNING

Being a teenager locked in a house with no one besides your 11 year old brother to play with (ain't no complaints), is a little isolating. I spend my non-school days working out & running, singing and practicing golf in our 'local backyard' (a small grassy area that is authorised to everyone within our half mile radius neighbourhood). But on school days, I'm a little bit more busy.

AIS (the American International School of Vienna) has a system where we have four odd days (1, 3, 5, & 7) and we have five classes on that those days, they just rotate. On even days (2, 4, 6 & 8), it's the same deal but we have a different five classes on those days. On even days I have classes that don't require a lot of writing, like Choir, P.E., and Advisory, so I don't have as much work to do. Where as on odd days I have almost all of my core classes, so I have a lot more work than I would on even days.

Unlike Owen, I don't just not like online school as a whole, I just don't like certain aspects of it. For example, I am constantly distracted by YouTube and my phone, so I have a harder time getting anything done. I also still have to get up early because I have to check in with my teachers before classes, but its a little better now because I have to get up at 8 and not 7. There are certain parts that I do like about distance learning, like the independence that I have with completing work. Not everything is due at the end of the class, which is nice.

So to summarise this blog piece, distance learning is fine, but I don't like it as much as normal school. Which is funny, because I never thought that I would ever say that. I think that normal school gives you everything in one, because I'm able to learn and socialise (one of the reasons why homeschooling doesn't really make any sense).

Quarantine: Day 14 (Owen)

This is day 14 of the Coronavirus online schooling.

Online school stinks. 😷.  Online school is a type of learning that they use when you can not go to school. It is mostly the same but it is just online.  I am not a computer fan but I have to do it until they find a cure for the Coronavirus.  The website that we use is called "Seesaw" and it is a good website but it is tough because we do not have a teacher to help us.

All of the sports are canceled so I basically have nothing  to do when I finish.  So far the past 2 weeks I have done a lot of running around the park, "turkachanz". My parents always say that we should take advantage to this crisis but in my opinion there is nothing to take advantage of. Don't get me wrong it is just that there is nothing to do and it gets me irritated 😤. One good thing about this is that I finish earlier then normal but then at the same time when I do finish early I have nothing to do.