HOW and WHAT is NORMAN doing?

Dear students and families, 

WELCOME! 

I'm glad that you are here and following my suggestion. You are now reading this post of NORMAN'S account of his activities and thoughts.

                   MY INTRO: It's FRIDAY and today

 I'm using my blog to send you some news! 
I would like to call it: 
LETTERS from HOME

Yesterday, NORMAN sent me an email in which he attached a kind of journal of what he has been up to during the past weeks.
The advanced group has been communicating to one and other since the end of classes. These classmates have been keeping in touch as they have with me also. This post was authorised by NORMAN. Thank you for sharing! 
SO now you can read what he has to say about his activities and his thoughts.

TIMES ARE CHANGING

Thanks to Marilou and Marcelle for sharing their experience during this Covid-19 containment period. You are perfectly right, our lives changed in a matter of days. We had to rearrange it in so many ways.

Personally, no more phone calls from my clients. No more job. My car hasn’t moved from the driveway. We are ordering food on the Web. But the hardest part of it all is not being able to hug our children and grand-children. As we are among the population at risk because of our age, it’s gonna be a long time before we'll be allowed to see them as before without consequences. We’ll have to wait for a vaccine to come.

In the meantime we’re reaching family and friends by Skype and Messenger. Fortunately we have this technology. And now we are using it as we have never done before.

It’s getting hard not to become a couch potato. The series on Netflix are so captivating. I'm embarrassed to admit that we watched the four seasons of Casa de Papel * in one week. This television series became a worldwide phenomenon. We are now looking for another series as good as this one.

I’m also taking the opportunity to do some English homework and watching the unseen seasons of The Walking Dead, in the English version. It’s easier than I thought to under-stand the dialogue. But when the weather allows, we go outside to work in the backyard or take a walk in the neighbor-hood. Gaining weight is a danger that awaits us during this containment period, for we use our spare time that we have a lot of, to cook good meals. It’s great but not without its costs... But what can we do?

I wonder how my English classmates are using their time during the containment period. Are you going crazy or what!?

Norman

* Le titre en français est Maison de papier. Money Heist for the English version

TO FINISH: Thanks again to NORMAN and thanks to you for 'making' the time and reading this interesting post.

VOCABULARY: remember to check the links (Longman’s omline dictionary) for definition and pronunciation.

Remember also to RU-USE these words and personalize your sentences.

Here are the words for today: to share, account of,  journal, thoughts, ...

               HAVE a GREAT weekend in the sunshine!!

                          Love to you all,

               SUZANNE