Hello here I am sharing more reflections from our students as part of the Global Project “A Day in my Life: living under the Covid-19 Pandemic.” We hope you and your students enjoy reading it!

A Day in my Life: Ryan, 8, St. Mary’s Hall, UK

Hi, my name is Ryan and I am 8 years old from Stonyhurst school.  I am from the United Kingdom

Lots of people are getting sick.  Lots of people are dying. We have to stay in lockdown which means we have to stay at home. We can’t see our friends or family and we can’t go to school either.

We can’t go to school.  We don’t go in our car as often as we use to.  We only go to the supermarket.  We have to do home learning and we have to stay at home and stay with my family.

Things I found hard – Staying in lockdown. Not seeing my family and friends and not going to school.

Gifts and graces – I see my mummy and brother everyday.  I play with my toys a lot and I get to play with my brother a lot and we get longer “rec”.

I feel sad and worried.  Because we might not be allowed out for a very long time.

Hopefully we will be allowed out.

We should stay at home.  When you are in the supermarket stay 2m away.  Be kind to each other and respect.

We also have to wash our hands a lot.

I am worried that we might not be allowed out of lockdown for a very long time.  Maybe we might not be able to see our family and friends.

I hope we can go everywhere and be allowed out of lockdown.

A Day in my Life: Enda, 8, St. Mary’s Hall, UK

Where I live there is not many people around so we don’t hear of many people getting poorly.

When I hear the news I feel sad for people alone and poorly.

I love my daddy being at home and seeing him every morning instead of being at work.

I have enjoyed everyone being at home it makes me happy when we are all together I do miss my friends.

I hope we can go to normal soon and we can have medicine to make everyone better and safe

A Day in my Life: Monty, 11, St. Mary’s Hall, UK

The virus has spread to many places in my country but thankfully it has not reached my family, but still, every time one of my parents goes out shopping and comes back, I can’t touch them for at least 7 hours and we have to wipe the shopping clean with antibacterial wipes.

Corona has changed my routine, but me being at home whilst doing schoolwork has allowed me to spend more time with family and I feel comfortable in the office where I do my work.

The challenges have been the need to be on time for lessons, because there are more distractions at home, you might lose track of time, also, some people will just go on to a meeting then mute themselves and turn their camera off, and just leave the room and do something else, so you don’t know if they’re in the meeting or not. It has also been challenging to not see my friends and be able to play games.

Some positive things about corona are families getting more time together whilst being at home. Pollution and animal endangerment have taken a massive dip, for instance, dolphins have returned to the rivers of Venice because the water is cleaner and there are less boats and the White-tailed Eagle has returned to the UK for the first time in over 240 years.

By causing things like pollution and animal endangerment to go down, I think that when the pandemic is over the world will have learned that our actions had caused harm, and that they should change their ways to loving the environment and care for each other.

A Day in my Life: Gaston, 13, St. Mary’s Hall, UK

We are very lucky in the south west of France because there have been very few ill people. Restrictions have prevented me from meeting with my friends but not from walking with my dog in the nearby forest.

After living in a boarding school with many friends every day around me, it has been very hard not to have anyone to spend time with. My parents are working and I am having lessons online. I still have to wake up early in the morning but I have my breakfast on my own. I miss the refectory, the recs, sport, after school activities and free-time with my mates.

On the other hand, now that I have time, I have been taking care of our garden with my Dad. I have also cooked many new recipes with Mum and ride my bike with my older brother.  In the evenings we usually watch a film all together.  We also follow the Mass on the Spanish Jesuit YouTube channel. Even if it is not the same as being in a church, it is always a very special moment where our dog stares at us wondering why we stand up and kneel down in front of the TV!

Observing trees, plants, birds, squirrels and the hedgehog in my garden, it seems they are happier than ever. This lockdown should make us realise how bad for the environment we can be, how vulnerable all these beautiful things are and how much we all depend on each other.

I pray to God for all of us to realise that we are seriously damaging our common home and I hope that this difficult times help us to reflect on what we should do to save our wonderful planet in order we will all be able to live on it.