online slipper order...

Received confirmation of my order. Delivery will take 7 days, even though my local store is just a few kilometres away. I'm glad the slippers are not super urgent. Only one slipper has air vents. The other one is almost fine. There's time. The joys of adapting to a new life.

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) April 10, 2020

what is this life...

pic.twitter.com/SkF4lUDSMZ

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) April 10, 2020

Good Friday - Balnarring Beach last year...

Good Friday morning is usually the day I drive to and walk nearby along Balnarring Beach. It's been a tradition for some years. Last year was the first year I walked alone - without my partner. That was tough...This year, I did not walk the beach at all. Memories of last year... pic.twitter.com/cgYzeSO3To

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) April 10, 2020

a season or two in one day...

Melbourne tends to have a season or two in one day... Today, Good Friday, has been little different... Here is a grey morning sky on my Mornington Peninsula and a sunny afternoon sky... like the yin and yang of these current times... pic.twitter.com/QyiVg0MAAb

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) April 10, 2020

a water view...

And here I am, with a water view, in isolation... procrastinating about taking a morning shower, donning sandals and venturing on a precious walk alone...

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) April 10, 2020

a new life...

In our latest digital event, @c_s_wallace and @fbongiornoanu talk about what you can do now to help the historians of the future piece together what it was like to live through the COVID-19 pandemic.

Watch 'This is History' now: https://t.co/jfb52HEjn0#NLADigitalCommunity

— National Library of Australia (@nlagovau) April 10, 2020

Melbourne is now firmly in Stage 4 lockdown+I'm finding I'm leaning to bursts of support for Victorian premier, Daniel Andrews. It's not a political statement. It's a statement of respect for a real leader in tough times. Poetry has dwindled+ I seek the quirky. Snow is appealing.

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) August 4, 2020

My blog also includes a list of terminology that has emerged and evolved during the pandemic. Some new words. Some new expressions? Old expressions with a new twist? How long will they last? Just become museum curiosities?

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) October 30, 2020

Welcome to 2020 (and beyond we hope)...the year the world overturned with covid-19.

I am a high school teacher, living on the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria, Australia.

In response to the above video released today, (Good Friday),
I will be recording my daily Twitter posts here and any other postings.
Each can be accessed collectively by label.

This blog is intended to be an insight into my experiences this year
- being wary of infection, but learning to live -
see, think, wonder - differently.

Next Wednesday I begin a life of remote teaching English and History.

One day, history may appreciate the little people...