Volunteering and confinement
You can’t ignore it, the months of March and April
2020 have been special for everyone!
First, the library closed its doors to the public.
But me and my colleagues still worked at the library.
But the very next week, all the volunteers received a
message from the coordinators, saying that we needed to stay at home,
and could go outside only for groceries. Fortunately for me, my work
at the library could be done from home: to write articles for the
blog, to create wishes cards for Easter and, for the biggest part of
my time, to create videos for the “Okiem Marine”, my weekly art
history post for the library’s Facebook and YouTube accounts!
So I organized my work as I wished! I woke up when I
wanted and started to work when I wanted, which means that I began to
work around 10:30 AM, and finished later than at the library, around
6 PM.
I went out only for shopping, 2 or 3 times a week.
Fortunately for my flatmate and me, we have a balcony
directly under the sun, we’ve never used it that much before the
confinement! So I took a lot of breakfast in the sun, the perfect way
to start a day!
Besides working hours, I had more time to practice
sport, to read, watch movies alone or with Anna my flatmate and learn
Polish (a bit...)!
The beginning of this confinement was going really
well, more time to do more stuffs, sun, Skype with my parents and
friends, perfect!
But after a few weeks I long to see something else
than the houses in front of the balcony… I wish I could go at least
to Warsaw, to stroll and change my outlook!
Step by step, we were allowed to go outside, with a
mask, in the forest. A new life was coming!
In May, the library opened to the public again, so I
came back to work, yay! I'm doing the same work that I did from home,
but now I can talk to a lot of people, and I can go outside for a long time!
