As I predicted three months ago, everything changed.

With university, nothing much changed, as everything stayed online and it’s currently a second lockdown here, I wish I could say that there could be at least one good thing about it, except the possibility of being able to spend the whole day on my sofa and not feeling bad about it as I am studying after all.

But I have to say that something GROUNDBREAKING happened in early-December. I had one laboratory! I know it’s unbelievable, I didn’t wanted to believe in it as well, but it really happened. There were 5 of us... Plus 3 members of staff, which now that I’m thinking, I don’t really know the reason why they were there, as they just made the risk higher. But yeah, nobody got sick, so I guess that makes it acceptable. This laboratory on the Determination of Ascorbic acid and Determination of Fatty Acids in Oils and Fats was very refreshing and I enjoyed it a lot. Until this laboratory, I actually didn’t realise how much I missed being in a lab.

As today is a start of the exam period, I am thinking about my past few months, and reflect on how much happened. My whole November was filled with assignments, 4 in total. I managed to finish all of them in advance but I think that the biggest achievement was that I managed to stay more of less sane during this period.

At the end of November, when all of my friends started to go home I was left almost solely by myself here. Not that I’ve seen much of them anyway with all the restrictions. I spent the first half of December by preparing for my Statistics test, which I have a feeling that I totally crushed (in a good way), but I’ll have to wait for few more weeks for the results.

I spent my first Christmas away from my family here with my brother, who was so nice to come. It was a very different Christmas, as we had no pressure to get anything done and it was truly about being together, which made me realise, that now, I am an adult. I can see all the differences from last year, when I was barely able to take care of myself. Now I’m living in a flat by myself, I’m taking care of all the bills and I am the only one responsible here for everything. It feels great to be independent!

The Christmas period was also distinguished from all the previous ones, as I was studying pretty much every day except one. And I hope that it will pay out in my test that will take place in the next week. A good thing is that I can stay home for it, as few days ago, there was snow here, and people who know, know, that British people are clueless when there is some snow.

At the end I think I can just write that I hope that everything will work itself out, that all the problems that we are facing at the moment will be a thing of the past at the time, that I will be writing my next article. 

Stay positive (not in the bad (Covid-19) sense) and try to find positive things in your life, because I believe, that it will get better!

Jak jsem předvídala před třemi měsíci, všechno je úplně jinak.

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