The negatives and the positives of staying inside are many and different for every person. For me, the negatives are mainly phycological because I can’t go outside with my friends or my family. Also, I don’t have the ability to go to school or my after school activities, and for this reason, I have nothing productive and fun to do all day. However, the positives of staying inside are also many. In my opinion, the most important one is that we have united as a society and therefore we are stronger together. Also staying inside gave us time to try new things such as to find new hobbies and many more. In conclusion, both the negatives and the positives are important, and we should try to face them with a positive attitude.
My favourite subject !!!
My favourite subject at school is maths. It is a very difficult subject but very interesting. It is a very different subject like no other because it has to do with numbers and not with the alphabet. In my opinion, this subject exercises your mind and does good for you. This was my favourite subject during elementary school and I love it now in high school. I think that in the future I will do something that has to do with maths.
My home !!!
My home isn’t very big and it isn’t very small. It has two big bedrooms, one for my parents and one for the kids. It has a small bathroom and a not very big kitchen. It has a big living room. It has a small corridor and two big dining rooms. It has three balconies and one garage. Finally, it has a very big garden and a terrace.
Μy favourite season
My favourite season is summer. That is my favourite season because we don’t have school and we have a lot of free time. I love summer because I love to swim with my father and my sister Agapi. Sometimes, my grandfather stays at the beach all morning and sometimes he goes in the afternoon too, because he loves the sea. In the summer I have lots of time to play with my sisters and go walking with my mum on a beach and after that, I go with my father swimming. Hesitantly this year with COVID 19 we can’t heat the summer as we always did we won’t take our baths it won’t be the same summer we always did.
Discuss the positive and negative aspects of being in lockdown
Have you ever lived in that kind of situation? As I remember I never have, it is something new for me and for many other people. No one really expected things to turn out this way and by that, I mean the lockdown and the social distancing. We all can deduce the positive and negative impacts of these security measures.
It is wise to see the positive view of these recent events. First of all, the pandemic will decrease and at the same time, the health departments will buy time to find the cure and the vaccine, something very important for the future. Not only that but all this time we have in our houses, with our families is precious time and try to make use of these. Now with the lockdown, you have the opportunity to find yourself, to rest from all the pressure and stress you were living with. Try to find strength in all that time you have because that isn’t the hard part.
The recent events have me concerned about the economic situation, and in my belief, it is the biggest problem we will have to phase after the lockdown. For example, many small businesses will collapse, even small factories will, and by that many people will lose their jobs. Being unemployed means not having the money to pay for your bills, your house and your needs in general, but it isn’t only that, long term unemployment is extremely demoralizing and that is the biggest problem we will have to face. Relating to science mortality increases when people are jobless. So as I see it, we got in lockdown to avoid big numbers of mortality but in the end if things don’t get back to normal, still many people will lose their lives. I could think and discuss more negative aspects of the lockdown, but now it doesn’t seem to me that it matters.
I understand the pressure that everyone feels right now, no one wanted things to turn out this way but they did. Be kind to yourself, make strong ties. You are not alone; we are all in this together. Everything is a matter of perspective.
MY VILLAGE
Now, I’m living in my village, called Anaxos. It’s a small village in the North-east part of the island. It’s a beautiful and quiet place for someone to live in. It’s green, with many trees and gardens, small, cosy houses that people use for their vocation. There is not a school and the children who live here have to get a school bus for going to their school. Also, people who need to go to the pharmacy or the post office, have to go to the neighbour village. There is not a pharmacy, post office, cinema or a school here but there are a small church and some mini markets.
Not many families live here during the winter, but in the summer a lot of people visit the place to pass their vocation. In the summer the place is very nice with many shops, restaurants, cafes and every kind of sea sport. The beach is beautiful and the sunset is the most amazing of all.
Apostolos M.
ORANGE
Very popular fruits from the citrus family. They took their name from their orange colour and they are the most known and favourite fruits all over the world. They can be eaten fresh or they can give juice, which is an important part of breakfast. Also, the fruits can be used in cooking, giving their special flavour and aroma to many recipes. They can be used as decoration on cakes and of course, they give a delicious jam.
Most of the people eat an orange or drink orange juice every day. Oranges are a very good source of vitamin C, which helps the body grow and fights infections.
In tradition oranges are the symbol of love and marriage in many cultures as in South America and Asia and orange is the colour of optimism.
Apostolos M.
DIGITAL SCHOOL
Now, because of the pandemic of COVID-19 everything has changed. Schools and our school activities are closed, so we have to stay at home and take some lessons on the computer. I think that the digital way of learning is interesting. We use technology for learning things, search for information about subjects, write messages to our teachers and classmates. We often make videos and put funny images to our messages, to communicate with others and we have fun. Very often we take part in quizzes and this is really amusing, better than having tests in a book. Actually, this way of learning can’t be compared with the active and real contact we have each other in a real classroom of a real school.I’ve missed my friends, my classmates, my teachers I’ve missed the moments and the emotions we share at school.
So I’m looking forward to getting over this difficult situation and return to our school.
Apostolos M.
Fashion – Beauty beggins when you decide to be your self-
All of us are using different fashion styles. For most of us, in our own way we can saw what actually fashion is for our self.
These days, people and actually teenagers are trying to follow the fashion of 2019 – 2020, like black clothes, ripped jeans and also expensive outfits from a very famous designer. In this situation, in my own way of thinking I can understand that one reason of following fashion its because you feel “into it”, very comfortable and also you like this kind of style, so why not to try it?. Nonetheless, we can find, as far I am concerned, another one reason. In fact, I would even venture so far to say that I have not done this before and I think all of us. So, as you can understand from what has been said, most of are following fashion just to impress the others and being noticed.
Let me make it up for you! I will give you two examples and you have to choose . Do you think that you will be noticed by the others if you are following fashion or by making your own styles? Now, let me explain this. Having said all that, all of us are following the fashion so, in fact, we have the same kind of style as our friends so in this way you will be the same as the others. All of us are different and we have the chance to saw it by our everyday outfit and general our style!!
All things considered, I think that we can be beautiful and different without being into fashion but by making OUR OWN styles!
Sapho S.
Following fashion – why do we do it?
Is fashion important to you? For more people, it is, at least to some extent. Everyone has their own style from those who wear expensive designer outfits, those who wear a jean and a T-shirt as more people wear. But why are people following fashion?
Arguably, one factor that influences what people wear is the need to impress others. People who dress well seem to be noticed than those who are not worried about their appearance. This is a reason, that people follow fashion and wear fashionable clothes, to impress others.
In the same way, fashion is perceived as a tool that denotes wealth or prestige. For example, people internationally try to elevate their status by wearing expensive clothes or famous designer outfits. These clothes are not giving a personal statement but promote a specific image of power. As a result, fashion does not express personal statements but give a false impression of appearance for a person.
All these things considered, to my way of thinking, fashion can be used as a means of communication and shows a self-image of you to others.
Maria T.
Dragon tales (part 9)THE LERNAEAN HYDRA
The Hydra of the lake Lerna is the most known dragon in Greek mythology. According to the myth, Hydra had the body of a huge snake and nine heads. For every head chopped off, Hydra could regrow two other heads. So it was impossible to be defeated. That beast was killed by Hercules with the help of his nephew Iolaus. So first Hercules cut off one head, using the sword that Athena had given to him. Then Iolaus burn the neck with fire, and that way the new heads couldn’t be regrown. Hercules cut off all the heads of Hydra. He placed the last, central head which was immortal under a big rock and dipped his arrows in Hydra’s poisonous blood. The goddess Hera who hated Hercules, placed Hydra in the sky as a constellation.
Apostolis M.
Dragon tales (part 8)ST.GEORGE AND THE DRAGON
The Christian church created the legend of Saint George battling Satan in the form of a dragon. The legend is very old but it’s known to many cultures in East and West. According to the legend there was a terrible dragon who was causing disasters to a city.
people were forced from the dragon to give hi their sheep every day, but when the sheep were not enough they had to sacrifice humans.One day the dragon asked for the king’s daughter or he would stop giving water to the city. The young lady was prepared to be given to the dragon, at the time that St.George arrived in the city on his white horse. He killed the dragon with his lance and he saved the girl. The king was so grateful.He offered him a treasure for saving his daughter.St.George refuseδ the money and the gold and told the king to give them to poor people. People were so happy and grateful for getting free, that they built a church for St.George.
Apostolis Μ.