@aliceroncella

It took some time to get used to be independent, to live by myself, in a different city, and tu come back to my family just for the weekend, so it was shocking to re-adapt to life with them. It was weird, it felt like I went backwards. At least, that's what I thought in the beginning: now we work out together and we get to really know each other for the very first time. We are lucky, because we live in the countryside with a huge garden, so we don't feel claustrophobic.

After a month in lockdown, my routine has become strong: I wake up at 7:30 am (some classes start at 8 am, so it's better if I stay used to wake up early), lessons, a 15/20 minutes-long fast lunch, then I take 10.000 steps with my grandmother going back and forth for driveway. I do this when I have no classes in the afternoon: if so, I do it by myself, following my courses from the smartphone. Once I've done my daily 15 minutes of exercises, I spend all the time I've left and the night doing my homeworks for school.

When I finished my homeworks, then, I got some free time for myself: I cook, I create, I build, I paint, I workout playing ping pong and volleyball, with frisbee, even some soccer. I learn new things, as how to skate, but I also play, watch movies and series and I also do some studying by myself. 

It's true: I fed my creativity mostly with exterior clues and interaction with the city and people around me. Since we're missing these opportunities, I help myself with doing some researches on Internet: advertisement banners become poetic, comments on social media are the new conversations and ideas run off as they did before. We can use this situation to observe the world with a more focused look.

I'm worried that my grandmother could get sick. At the beginning, it was hard to tell her that she had to stay home, that we had to do her grocery shopping, because the fiercely wanted to stay independent. It was hard also to not visit her (even if she lives downstairs) to keep our social distance, as I come from Milan and I could have been a danger for her. Now, since we have had no contacts from the exterior for a few months, we can stay together, but we still fear that something could happen.