So, with all this Coronavirus, my college, and like every school across Ireland is closed for 2 weeks, at least!
At the beginning my teachers were saying that the college might close, and I was thinking “Oh I really doubt that.”
Then they started talking about how we would do exams if the college closed. My teacher said that she would have to send the paper online and give us a time to do it at home. She was saying that she hopes we wouldn’t cheat, but there are a few in my class that would definitely do that, so she added ” It would be very suspicious if I saw everyone get 100%!” But here we are, with the reality being that I may never have class again!
I was driving on Thursday and all of a sudden on the radio I heard that all colleges and schools are closed from 6pm that day until the 29th of March. We were supposed to have 2 weeks off from the 6th of April, then back for exams which were supposed to be held the first week of May, but I think at this rate all that is up in the air now.
It was all quite sudden, so now my teachers have been emailing us stuff to make sure that we do and email them. I still have about 6/7 assignments do, so I will have to do them and email them to my teachers.
Some may think it’s great not having college, but I would much rather go in. I like college, and I know I’m going to be bored stiff because I’m sure the government will want us to stay in as much as we can.
I think it’s good that the government shut all the schools though. I think the first death made them take this action. Unfortunately the schools in Northern Ireland are still open so it’s not ideal taking two different actions on the same island.
And now everyone here is panic buying, which is not good! I haven’t gone into the shops but I’ve seen plenty of pictures of lines of people waiting to pay in places like Tesco, Lidl and Aldi. I think this is just selfish and they need to think of the people who can’t go to the shops everyday, like the elderly, or parents who have babies. My Mum told me that she read online that there was a parent who couldn’t find baby formula because it was all gone.
I know people panic, and even when I heard all these people were buying loads of toilet paper, I started thinking “oh god well we better go and buy loads”, but the News is saying that there is PLENTY of food and it won’t run out. So I relaxed a bit when I saw that.
So people have become very selfish now.
Nobody knows what will happen these next few weeks, but I hope we all don’t go mad being stuck inside!
Aisling
An Irish Explorer 