Studying at home during Covid-19
I think I’ve been at home for two weeks now? The first week the semester was on “pause” while the school organized everything going forward for classes to be held remotely. That week I spent sleeping all day and watching a lot of Nollywood.
The second week was officially “back to school”. Now that I think about it, I’m not sure if that’s the week I’m in now... or if in fact I’m in the third week. I’m going to go with week three.
I’m finding it difficult now because even if I sent an alarm to wake up at 10am, I turn it off and return to dreaming. Then I get out of bed around 1pm, laze around until 4pm where I eat, and start working around 5. Typically, I will work for 4 or 5 hours. 11pm comes and I shower and return to bed to watch movies.
I have about two weeks of school left and these are finals. I don’t know how I’m going to do this for a number of reasons. One, I’ve always had a problem with my desk. It’s a little too wide length wise and so my arms are raised higher than is comfortable to type on my laptop. Which I then move to my mom’s work space since the orientation of everything is comfortable. That’s problem two, it’s not my workspace. Obviously my mom uses it in the morning, my sisters will use that too.
The third problem is that its the whole family here, and having little sisters makes everything loud. It then doesnt help that my mom doesn’t know what an indoor voice is and insists on yelling for everyone when she needs their attention rather than getting up and walking over to them.
The forth issue is being locked up in my room all day that it’s easy for my to jump in bed and do nothing.
So I’m not sure if making a schedule will help me and actually have me follow through with it. For instance, maybe I can wake up at 10, have a walk or run for thirty minutes , come back and shower, eat, then sit down and get work done.
I guess my apprehension around going for a walk is that I really don’t like my neighbourhood. I’ve been here since I was 16 and I really hate the idea of running into a lot of people from school. Didn’t have an enjoyable time here. We have a “pathway” but from where I live, it’s not even a 30 minute walk from the top to the bottom. The path awkwardly ends where the mainstreet runs. But I think it’s still worth it to try it out this week.
On the plus side, I spent the day learning how to introduce myself and what I do in French. So at least I know new vocabularly and the proper tenses relating to my work history and my aspirations for my career.