Covid- Part one
Covid My classroom in Australia Lets just say, we are all ‘over’ it! I left my home in Mexico January 30th, 2020, and headed to the Northern Territory of Australia. It just happened to be on the very day that a Public Emergency of International Concern was declared by WHO. It was to be a ten week contract, but things quickly changed, as they did for most of us in the world. First of all, the contract was immediately extended to eleven weeks – a change in the school calendar. I had not anticipated that, but no worries. My ticket had left a lot of wiggle room should I have decided to holiday a bit in the country while I was there. Something else I had not anticipated was the World Health Organization to declare the emergency a Global pandemic on March 11, 2020. The state borders were closed, and road blocks were set up to protect people, largely the more ‘at risk’ Indigenous population of the ‘Territry’, from the new Covid-19 virus....