Hello everyone. I think it's been roughly a week or two since I last update. Since then quite a bit has happened. For one, last Friday the government here declared that we'll be going into a soft lockdown and thus all out school activities got cut short. Before that, we already sort of went into a phase where teaching week ended and everyone was just doing consultations and working on our assignments. But then last Friday, we paused our work and huddled around the table for an hour as the prime minister declared so and we went into a mini panic frenzy as we waited for our professor to tell us what to do next. He told us that this final assignment is cancelled and ungraded and everyone started packing up. Fast forward a week later, I've been sort of trapped in my room and I'm losing my mind. In all honestly, I would usually enjoy this solitude but I feel unsettled since we left a lot of assignments hanging, the semester sort of left us...
Hello, friends. It's the beginning of August, and there's approximately 5 more months until 2020 ends. I'm not sure how 2021 is going to be, but I wish so much that it would be kinder to us all. I understand that 2020 has been good to some and most, but I think we can all do better without a pandemic, or a protest, or a political downfall, or drying dams. My summer break came and ended, I'll be starting my new semester next week. I didn't get to go home over break and this makes it the longest I've been away at a single time. I've managed to get by, but a tiny part of me still wonders if I could just go home now and compensate all the time that's gone by. I don't understand how some of my friends can stay far from home and only visit every other year or two. So far over the break, I've had several mental breakdowns, then when the lockdown softened, I had a physical breakdown. I lost my balance and sprained my foot. It's been a month a...