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lm21074:
It felt like a normal school day to me. I eased into it quickly because there was always something I had to be doing and not much had changed from last term. I was feeling really anxious leading up to the transition back to face-to-face learning because I ended up really behind with my work due to mental health issues and personal problems which lead to a very shitty nine weeks at home. However, I think I was catatrophising about what it would be like to return to the demands of learning at school and it was not as bad as I thought it would be. I feel a lot better going back to school because of the routine and having a better learning environment than my bedroom where I'll just sleep and get distracted.

As Year 11s and 12s have gone back to school, there is a lot more room to move around. I thought this would result in perhaps spreading classes out across buildings, but we were in our usual classrooms. This resulted in congestion in the hallways of the buildings, so very difficult to pull off distancing there.

Not many students at my school are taking social distancing seriously (I prefer physical distancing because it's all about the 1.5m+ distance between others and yourself).

The teachers want four students per table to make contact tracing easier in the event of people catching the virus. However, one of my teachers let six people sit together on a table as he said the chances of contracting the virus are remote (yes, he used the word remote after returning from the world of remote learning) and that the social distancing was mainly between the teachers and students. We can't visit teachers' offices at all to ask for help, and if we need help during class, the teacher will explain using the whiteboard and will remain at the front of the room. Worksheets are not handed out either. Somehow my school managed to get hand sanitiser bottles for each classroom. Otherwise, not much has changed at all.

There are still people hugging each other and pushing to get to their lockers. There are still people squishing up on benches, playing contact sports and even PDA.

I hope everyone else is finding the transition back to uni / school / work / life as we knew it before COVID okay :)

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