Actually I planned an article about learning languages today. But due to recent events concerning Corona I need to write about that first. I hope this won’t be turning into a blog about being trapped, but we have some situation here.
First of all, since I am here, Corona is a topic. I think it started before I left Berlin, but I was so busy with preparing, I didn’t want to bother myself with that. When I had the time for it and read about it, I got the feeling its like an influenza and just because it is new, people are worried. Me and my friends even did jokes about it. Then, last Saturday, I saw one headline about someone who is killed by the disease. Later I found out he was an old man and the results weren’t even there yet. So, I didn’t felt in danger.
Nonetheless, over the weekend North Italy were kind of shut down. Yesterday I spent the day with my friends, we cooked together and bake some cookies… University informed us, that no classes, exams et cetera will take place and shortly after that we got the information from some Italians in a Meet-Up group, that there will be a ban about Bologna too. No public meetings, no sportive activities, no schools et cetera. They even said to avoid private meetings. When we looked up online, what is going on, we found pictures of empty supermarkets and prices for flights etc. increases fast. Me and my friends were asking ourselves, is it really that bad or just panicking? Should we get out of the country as long as we can and when University starts again, come back? I actually still don’t know. My place is already payed for that week and actually I really like to stay. Especially because I don’t think Germany is a safer space and I am not really sure where to go. My flat is rented to others and I don’t know if I really would like to go to my parents place. And of course, the weather is shit in Germany right now. I decided for starters to stay here that week and look how things develop.
I was on grocery shopping today and everything was open and the shelves full. I think for the moment I just use the free time to write some to earning money and learn Italian vocabulary. And watch Netflix. Perhaps I finally go to the haircutter and do some other stuff for which I was to busy the last days. I really want to be distracted because I actually can feel how doing nothing makes me overthinking the situation. Which is actually not so easy. Right now train service between Austria und Italy stopped, which gives me a bit the creeps.. like to know, there is a way out, when things get worse and when train stops flights and busses will too.
Some of my friends in Germany are concerned, some are like “that panicking is ridiculous” and right now, I am not sure about either. People here say the ban is mostly to make the spread slower, because hospitals are not prepared. But when this ban work do they extend it? And when it gets worse? Will we get cut from the rest of Europe? Nobody knows and this is what makes the situations so.. scary.
Probably to be continued.
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