téma
Getting
myself to do
some work
for school is
the hardest
part of the
day.
There was
a terrible
silence
hanging
between
them. Was it
awkward?
Maybe.
16 březen-červen 2020
iv.
It was the sixth of May and my phone just started ringing. I immediately jumped out of
bed, due to that devilish noise. It took me one minute to calm myself and then I checked
the time on the clock. 8 am. It was only 8 am, why would someone even call met this
early?! I picked up the phone, ready to yell at that annoying human. „WHO IS THIS!?“,
I shouted insanely to the phone. It was my friend Rose. „Why weren’t you at the math
class? Our teacher is getting mad at you.“ God damn! I am constantly forgetting about
my online classes. „Sorry Rose, I´ve just forgot to set up my alarm clock.“ „Again?“ „…
again.“ Rose always makes up excuses for me. Last time, she said I had to help my
grandpa with shopping groceries, even though my grandpa lives like 200 kilometers
away from me.
After our call, which turned out to be 30 minutes long, caused by Rose´s need to tell me
about her plans for the next two months, I’ve decided to get some breakfast. My parents
were at work, so I made pancakes myself. The only company I had was my cat, silently
begging for a treat; I couldn‘t resist and poured her some leftover milk. Along with my
dogs, she has been the closest „thing“ to friends I‘ve had for the last three months.
Getting myself to do some work for school is the hardest part of the day. I usually
procrastinate by watching Netflix, reading, annoying my cat, or just lying on the bed.
That’s why I spend sleepless nights, doing my homework, last day before the deadline.
And even though lying on the bed sounded amazing, I just felt the need to make it up to
my maths teacher and do some work. How long will I keep it up?•
v.
text: Lucie Havlová 5.o
Johnny and Mark were getting bored at home. It was barely a week into the selfquarantine
they have to endure because of a pandemic. They couldn’t go out as
frequently as they used to before this whole situation ocurred. The only time they were
allowed to go out was for grocery shopping; although Mark being Mark, he bought
nearly the entire shop, therefore, they would not probably need to go for another
shopping until the Christmas.
But they were running out of activities to entertain themselves. The first days were
fine, everything was going smoothly. No panicking, just pure fun. They played Animal
Crossing, they were playing tag, you’re it in their small flat, they tried to cook eadible
meals, they joked around, they watched films that they had always wanted to watch.
Unfortunately, they slowly ran out of ideas of what to do…
Now, they were stuck in the living room, looking at the ceiling and browsing Twitter on
their phones. They weren’t talking to each other, not knowing what to say to the other.
There was a terrible silence hanging between them. Was it awkward? Maybe.
‘Dude,’ Johnny let out, sitting up. ‘Is it only me, or is it so fluffing, boring?’
Mark laughed and put down his phone. He thought about the past week, trying to think
of something but only nonsense ideas were coming up his mind. ‘It´s been only a week
since it started? Is it going to be like that for the rest of quarantine?’
Johnny shrugged. ‘Don’t know but just lying around the whole time won’t help me.’
Johnny wanted to go to the gym but he couldn’t.
‘Do you remember how we wanted to go climbing and set up a tent in the mountains?’
asked Mark suddenly, his brain was likely to start to work. Johnny nodded. ‘Why don’t
we set up the tent here?’
‘Mark! You’re a genius!’ Johnny exclaimed and jumped high, nearly banging with his
head a chandelier.
And so they started putting up the tent. By the time they’ve finished, the whole living
room was cramped but the boys were satisfied. They brought all the snacks Mark had
bought when he had been panic-shopping and they also opened two bottles of wine.
They couldn’t remember much from camping as they drank a bit too much. (However,
Mark had a memory of clinging to Johnny, singing I’m yours by Jason Mraz and giggling
like a teenage girl.) Ö