Journal one

March 16th, 2020

Today's my first day doing school online. Some teachers, such as my art teachers are not going to use the online system. That cuts out three of my eight classes, so work should be easier.

I finished all my assignments within around 1 hour, whereas if I went to school I would've been there for over seven hours. It makes me question the effectiveness of in-person learning again. Although art classes are always much easier in person.

Now that my father is working from home (there were confirmed cases at his work), I can't practice piano. His office is in a room next to the hallway with our piano, and the doors and flimsy with lots of space for sound to get through. I'm probably not even going to be aloud to go to my lessons, because my teacher takes students from other schools with confirmed cases, and my parents are being very cautious against coronavirus.

I guess this is a good incentive for my parents to get the expensive piano keyboard I've wanted. That way I could practice with headphones, and I could also use it for MIDI input when making music.

It makes the world seem so much smaller when you get on discord and discover other music producers on your discord server have coronavirus. And it makes the world seem so much more connected and globalized when you realize everyone on that same server is also aware of coronavirus, that they are all worried.

I'm doing a collaboration with another producer on the server, and his school has closed. He lives in England. Knowing that his school closed makes it seem scary. Although since both of our schools are closed we have a lot of time for the collab. So I guess coronavirus is making a lot of people happy. I know a lot of my friends are excited that school is technically out.

Well, that's pretty much been my day. I hope yours has been good, too. I'd love to hear how your guy's days are going, if you want to comment about them. I'll see you tomorrow, then.