Life in the Time of Corona (Days 12-16)

3.24.20 (Tuesday):

Today Japan announced the Olympics would be postponed until 2021. So sad, but understandable.

We watched some American Idol on Hulu.

3.25.20 (Wednesday):

I had my first Google Meet meeting with the special education team at the school I work for. Let’s just say that Google Meet does not work when you have a group of 15+ elementary school students on at the same time.

My big outing of the day was that I went shopping at Costco. I had not dared go to Costco before, after hearing all of the nightmare stories. They limited the number of people in the store and gave out sanitized shopping carts once you were inside. I ended up spending around $200, which again is about double what I usually spend in a single shopping trip there.

We watched Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives on Hulu.

3.26.20 (Thursday):

I made a mini Google slideshow to connect with the kindergarten class that I work with. I do miss their smiling faces.

k did another basketball training session through Instagram.

Today the United States surpassed Italy and China to have the most cases of COVID-19 cases in the world!

I went for a walk and saw a group of five teenage girls running/walking together. This made me so angry! Why do people not take this seriously? Staying home is really a small sacrifice compared to the doctors and nurses who are risking their lives in order to save others.

We watched American Idol on Hulu.

n had a Zoom conference with his soccer coach and teammates. I guess they are going to try to do that every Thursday.

3.27.20 (Friday):

I started doing some online trainings for work.

It seems that a lot of people are stress baking, as flour and sugar are difficult to find. Luckily, my mom was able to find a bag of flour for me since we were running low.

I made blackberry muffins. Will need to make another batch of breakfast cookies soon.

n had another Google Meet with his teacher.

At night, k had a Discord meeting with her youth group and D and I had a Zoom meeting with our small group. It was nice to virtually “see”/talk/pray with everyone.

3.28.20 (Saturday): It did not really feel like the weekend, but it was nice not to have work/schoolwork/conference calls.

D relieved some stress by pulling out some plants on the side of our house. We need to figure what to plant.

This fried rice was a collaborative effort. n chopped the carrots/green onions, k chopped the broccoli, and I did the rest. Good way to use up leftover rice.

The cities are finally starting to make it clearer that the parks are shut down. I still do “passive walking” through them, which is explicitly allowed.