Jack的小留学生日记 l 一个令人不安的时代

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复活节即将结束，这可能是我过的最快的一个假期了。

学校目前仍在关闭，每天我都会收到大量的邮件，邮箱里充斥着各种时间表、网课、作业等等。虽然隔离并没有对我的生活造成太大影响，但我还是很担心即将到来的GCSE考试（英国中考）。明年就要考试了，可在家的学习效率远不如在学校，这种网络式的学习效果相对还是稍微差了一点。

从目前的情况来看，我还是挺乐观的，也期待这次全球性的疫情能尽早结束。但有些问题我也确实很担心，这些问题可能也是很多跟我情况类似的学生所关心的。

首先，我很担心未来的不确定性，当然关注这个病毒的人可能都会担心未来病毒是否会变异等等，但是我更担心的是英国的学校状况。当病毒刚在英国及欧洲传播开时，很多人都不重视，甚至有些人觉得这都是编造出来的假象，还有人会想着主动去感染病毒以得到自身免疫力，英国政府也在最初的时候提出了群体免疫的策略。但是，在人类历史上，这种策略从来没有对还未生产出疫苗的疾病起过作用。（在19世纪，虽然大多数人都已经有了天花免疫，但每年仍有数百万人死于天花感染。）因此，当我看到有媒体报道英国的学校可能在五月中旬或期中假期前重新开放时，我觉得很困惑。也许这个信息是真的，也可能政府还会推迟开学日期，但我们的学期考试就在这个时间点，很多东西还没有复习，学校信息的匮乏让我们这个阶段的学生感到压力山大。

其次，大多数英国人对这场危机的处理方式和态度实在是让人难以恭维。大家一开始并不在意而且远远低估了这个病毒的威力，因此导致我们现在要面临这种长时间的隔离。我真正担忧的是，在隔离解除后，这些人可能会肆无忌惮去社交、聚会，这很可能让之前的努力白费，让病毒又死灰复燃。

最后，学校的反应也让我感觉有点失望。我知道有很多事情都还是未知数，大家也不确定病毒的传播会带来什么影响，但我还是对学校不能及时与学生和家长共享信息这点有些不满。我认为，在当前这种情况下，学校的信息应该更加透明，无论是好消息还是坏消息都不重要，但缺乏对学生考试以及复习时间的安排与计划等这些最起码的信息，还是让我有点沮丧。

说了这么多，虽然很多事情我们不能确定，但现在，保持积极乐观的心态，为最坏的结果提前做准备就是能做的最好方式了。我也在不断进行自我调整，现在就当学期考试会如期进行吧，提前准备总不是坏事。我们无法掌握周围事情的发生，只能盼望社会上的每一个人承担好自己个人的责任，这样我相信，这次的危机也会很快就能解除。

下期我会写一些与经济有关的话题，下周见！

Jack

英文版

Easter is coming to an end; and for me, this is probably the fastest holiday that had passed. Because of the fact that school is still closed, emails for teachers once more flooded into my mailbox with time tables, live lessons and assignment.

Although I am very relieved that this quarantine is only effecting me minutely, I am still quite worried about my GCSEs since my exams are just next year and for me, I work way more efficiently in school than at home, thus this remote learning is somewhat slowing down my progress.

Looking at the current situation, I am quite optimistic and look forward to the end of this pandemic, but I am still concerned about a few issues which might affect students in similar situations as me.

Firstly, I am quite worried about the uncertainties of things. Of course, the uncertainty of the virus and how it might mutate is more or less in everyone's mind, I'm however more worried about the school situation in the UK. When the virus first arrived in the UK and Europe, many people didn't care; many people think that the whole situation is nonsense, some even want to get it on purpose some that they can be immune and even the British government first proposed the fatal herd immunity strategy, which never worked with diseases where there are no vaccines (for example with smallpox when still millions of people die every year in the 19th century while the majority of the population are immune) ever in the passed. So when I see that school might reopen in mid-May, or before half-term, I am confused and torn between the statement being true or the government delaying the date as my end of year exams is around the time and this uncertainty and the lack of information from the school is making people nervous as we have a lot to revise.

Secondly, the recklessness and underestimation of the situation of people really concern me greatly. The point that people didn't care and underestimated the virus' potential at the beginning which led to this uncomfortable quarantine we are in now, and that those people who think this is still trivial is worrying, to say the least, and even if the quarantine is released, those people will be off again, doing many social gatherings which can bring back the virus from the 'dead'.

Finally, I am a bit worried but also disappointed with my education and my school. Although I do understand that nothing is certain as we still don't know what will happen to the virus as it spreads and what will happen in the future, I am still quite disappointed by the lack of information shared with the pupils and the parents by the school.

In my opinion, schools should be way more transparent, especially in times like this, even if the news is not positive or encouraging as for me, the lack of information about exams schedules and work is putting me into more distress.

To sum everything up: although there are many things to be concerned about, staying positive and preparing for the worst is definitely the best way forward. For me, I am doing my revision now as if the exam is taking place before half-term (mid-May) just in case, as it's never negatively impacting to revise more. And for the rest, I can only hope that people will be more responsible and we will have this situation over soon. See you next week, where I will be writing about economics.

Jack

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