Our girls had mini-meltdowns this week because they miss school and believe COVID-19 has ruined their lives. As much as we try to remind them how fortunate they are, they believe quite vehemently they now reside in the depths of despair. Therefore, we try to transform their tears with the lesson that every single incident in life can be handled with humour, intelligence, respect and a little music. We read funny stories, watch family videos, have living room dance parties. But sometimes, you just need to let it out. Therefore, we asked them to write their frustrations out on paper and send them to COVID-19: Typos included.
Dear COVID-19.
We hate you. Because we can’t go anywhere and we miss school and our friends.
We love being home but we don’t get any parties like at Greentree. We love our school.
Covid is the worst thing in the entire world. Covid is so bad. Do not go out of your house. We can go in our backyard but it is not the same! We can’t go to the park or get a Slurpee or see a movie or go on a plane or go to restaurants. What if covid stays long and our Elf on the shelf can’t come back because she might spread Covid?
We want the Covid-19 to go away forever.
We have to make sure we wash our hands all the time after and before we eat, play outside, touch things, things that might have germs. We touch our faces and feel bad.
If you miss going places, we don’t blame you. We want to do lots more things. Like actually see people and not on our phones. We never thought we would say this, but we are sick of phones. We don’t want to text. We want to see our friends and dance and play tag. Our Mom was going to go on a fun trip for her Birthday. But she can’t now. My brother doesn't get his big Birthday party either. We hope you go away very very very very very soon.
When you are gone, we will run outside and get ready for school the next day with excitment.
We will go swimming with our club and dance with our Shrek class like everyone is watching. Because we don’t care about dancing like nobody is watching anymore. That feels lonely. We will hug our friends and never watch tv again. Well as often.
We hate you Covid. Lalina and Suvera Ram
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