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My Corona Experience so far

I am a 26-year old teaching student and live at home with my parents since returning from a two-year stay at a university in the USA. In our house we have two flats: I share the one on the ground floor with my parents and my 84-year old grandma lives upstairs. We are currently self-quarantining.   We are basically on mandatory quarantine as my dad returned from a skiing trip to Austria last Friday, but we would have started to socially distance ourselves anyways, even if my dad had not gone to Austria. We are able to do so as I am a student between two semesters with no classes happening, my mum is a freelance writer for a newspaper as well as a coach for athletics and my father, who works for a big German telecommunications company, has the ability to work from home. His company has since two weeks ago told their employees to try to avoid any face-to-face meetings.   Since my mom is a freelance sports writer for a local newspaper, she cannot earn any money currently. Her...

Introduction! Who am I?

Hello! My name is Rebecca. I am 26 years old and from Germany. I am a student at the Goethe University Frankfurt and am studying to be an teacher for English and Geography in secondary school. I spend two years living abroad in Texas in the USA. There I studied English and Teaching English as a Second Language for two years and have been living back home since 2016. I was in the USA with a track & field scholarship and was therefore part of the university's & field team as a thrower. I am starting my last full semester at university in April and I am going to take my state examination soon which is going to conclude my time at university. I have several reasons why I am starting this blog. Firstly I would like to write more things and this is the place to do so. Secondly I love travelling and through this blog I can keep memories of all those adventures in one place while also sharing things and places that I have loved on trips to different parts of the world. Thirdly it...