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What are you doing to occupy yourself during the pandemic (Corona virus)?

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Hello everyone. With the recent developments of the Corona virus in my country all non essential citizens have been instructed to stay at home to slow the spread of the virus. I know this has been the case in many countries and I'm curious to know what you all have been doing to occupy yourselves...

I personally have been reading books on this online book club and reviewing as much as possible. With nothing to do I'm finishing a book in a little over a day. I don't even think this is normal :? :lol: :techie-studyingbrown:

Feel free to share where you are from and what activities you have been up to...
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I live in Japan and just changed from a full-time job to being a student of Japanese. With the novel corona pandemic happening, my prospects of finding a part-time job are diminishing, and my school start date keeps being pushed back. Now that I have more time, I joined this site and hope to read a few great books along the way. I can't even go outside to appreciate the sakura, though luckily you can see it in full bloom outside my apartment!

I also have been trying to catch up on my huge backlog of videos games during this time. Have a huge mountain to climb, with that.
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venoix wrote: 06 Apr 2020, 07:29 I live in Japan and just changed from a full-time job to being a student of Japanese. With the novel corona pandemic happening, my prospects of finding a part-time job are diminishing, and my school start date keeps being pushed back. Now that I have more time, I joined this site and hope to read a few great books along the way. I can't even go outside to appreciate the sakura, though luckily you can see it in full bloom outside my apartment!

I also have been trying to catch up on my huge backlog of videos games during this time. Have a huge mountain to climb, with that.
I know how you feel. My final exams and graduation are constantly being put on hold due to the virus. Hell of a way to start my "adult years".
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I am from the US. With schools shut down and stores having a hard time keeping up we started making anything we can homemade. My kids love helping me bake and the house smells like a bakery every afternoon.
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babemonkey95 wrote: 08 Apr 2020, 22:10 I am from the US. With schools shut down and stores having a hard time keeping up we started making anything we can homemade. My kids love helping me bake and the house smells like a bakery every afternoon.
That sounds lovely.
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I am also from USA and I'm finding more time reading and catching up on my emails during this pandemic
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I actually just found out my exams are postponed until September. 😪 Looks like I will be reading all year😏
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My school is having online classes, so I'm stuck with working on homework and studying for exams T_T
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My city still allows office workers to go to work. And my company would want us at the office, too. So we are still going to work even during the pandemic.
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I have to work during this times but time to time we have to spend 15 days at home, so I read, I practice origami and change a lot of things at home. It’s incredible like there’s always something to do in a house. And listen music, a lot of music so time goes pass faster
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I've been tirelessly searching for a way to make money other than going out into the world. Other than that I have also been reviewing as much as possible and even finished a book in 5 hours. I am very much worried at how fast I finished that book.
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