When I wake up in the morning, I go and find something to eat or prepare, then

start asking my siblings what they need to do for school. In our house I am the
second-born but I am the oldest one of those who go to school, so I take all the
responsibility to make sure everyone is doing good with school.

These days, me and my siblings are working together, each one with her computer. If
someone gets stuck, you just ask and we can help each other.

When I get tired, I watch the news. BBC Swahili and VOA are the channels that I
usually watch but BBC is my favourite one. The news that I am watching the most is
about Coronavirus and where it is now. I want to know where most people with
Coronavirus are. I find out America is the country that has the most people with
Coronavirus and that makes me pay more attention to this issue.

During all of these study at home weeks I am pretty busy, helping my siblings,
making sure they are done with their work or meeting with their teacher. But also I
like it because I am learning new things from them while we are studying together.

These are the people who I spend my time with, my siblings and my cousin with his
wife who came to our house for a couple weeks. It is fun to have him with his
family because he likes to dance and listen to music. Sometimes he tells us to go
outside to dance and have some fun. We don’t have a baby at home, the last born is
10 years old so we are very happy to have my cousin’s baby who is 8 months old.
Everyone is very excited at home, but sometimes we have little fights over who gets
to carry the baby because it has been a long time now without carrying or playing
with a baby.

My cousin’s wife is not a talkative person, but she is very funny and she likes to
tell us stories about her family. When everyone is busy on their phones or watching
TV, my cousin brings something to talk about or something that will be a little
challenge and everyone will focus on the challenge. One day he told us to go
outside. He said he would bring a dance and give money to whoever learned how to do
the new dance. Everyone ignored him, so he raised the amount of money. Everyone
said okay let’s start it. He brought a hard dance. No one got the money but later
everyone came to like it.

For all of these things we have been doing it has been very good but during this
hard time of COVID19 it is not very enjoyable.

Sometimes we want to go somewhere to see something or to buy things in the store or

to just enjoy. But we are scared of COVID19.

My street looks very different during this period. Ours is the one of the largest
roads in Salt Lake City. It goes to the University of Utah and to the University of
Utah healthcare centre. Normally, a lot of cars pass here every second. But now it
is very quiet because people are staying in their houses.

Along the road, there is the University of Utah Stadium. Normally on Saturdays like
today people filled all of this road coming back from watching the game wearing red
clothes. And the policemen should be here making the rules and directing the
traffic. Actually, it is a big change to experience quiet in a city like this.

On Saturdays when they play a game, you should see people around the building
selling some snacks or drinks. Now it looks like people have moved away and nothing
is being done. Sometimes I ask myself, where are all the cars that were passing
around every day?

People got separated and no one visits others. People really change even friends
because they are just protecting their lives. One thing that I noticed is that
people don’t blame or get mad at each other because they didn’t greet them. My
family has friends who used to come every Sunday to visit us. But during this time
they didn’t come for like three weeks. When they came they just stood outside and
called us. We didn’t touch each other, we just talked but staying very far. After
that everyone just felt okay. Even if I met with other people who I know it is the
same thing. But usually when you meet or visit someone without shaking ha