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Many of us have experienced restrictions on movement and social contact during the pandemic. Talk about any restrictions that have especially affected you.

<strong> In the past three weeks, we've been on partial lock down.</strong> This mean that we need to limit movement outside, have no contacts out of our household and also, for me, being a teacher, that I need to stay at home and work online.<strong> It feels bad to be seeing my young students on a screen, struggling with keyboards and bad connections but it also is the highlight of my day.</strong> We joke a lot and I can tell they're happy to see me and their classmates. I can't help but feel blissful at all the benefits this situation generates for me: it saves me a two-hour per day commute, throat fatigue, mask fatigue and worrying about getting infected, when working at a school with 250 other people. <strong> I see friends online, or very rarely, one of them might</strong> break the rules and<strong> risk a 300 euro fine to come visit</strong>. The weather is still fairly warm, so we can sit at the balcony and pretend that nothing's wrong.<strong> Those are the best hours of the week</strong>-there's a mixture of excitement, pure joy for being able to meet and gratitude, but we also tend to look over our shoulders.<strong> Nothing is unadulterated from worry.</strong>