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HIST30060 Lockdown #1: Activities and Alcohol

Title (Dublin Core)

HIST30060 Lockdown #1: Activities and Alcohol

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Description (Dublin Core)

On 31 March 2022, the first lockdown was initiated in both Melbourne and Sydney. I was in Sydney at the time, having arrived a few days prior from Melbourne as border restrictions were starting to be introduced. I am slightly ashamed to say, now, that I really enjoyed this first lockdown. I hadn't lived at home since 2018, and it was a unique experience to enjoy time together that wouldn't have normally happened. We've always been pretty close, but the lockdown forced an intimacy that we'd never had before (it helped that my teenage brother was required to be at home and boredom had driven him to start having conversations with us again). I think mum and dad were consciously trying to keep lockdown interesting, and soon a weekly cocktail night (with a required lounge formal dress code), bi-weekly painting lessons via zoom and daily yoga with mum, nightly music sessions with dad, lego competitions with the old dusty lego sets, and weekend family walks were introduced. I had never done so much exercise in my life, and yet I had never consumed as much alcohol, either. Even when I lived in a flatshare as an eighteen-year-old. Alcohol quickly became a problem for me, one that I have yet to fully address although I have started to cut down. The taste of wine became associated with fun times with the people I loved, so of course, I loved it. And when the lockdown eventually lifted, I returned to Melbourne nearly friendless (having left before I got the chance to settle in and with little opportunity to meet new people), a cheap bottle of pinot grigio and I became good - if slightly toxic - friends.

Date (Dublin Core)

March 31, 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

self

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Rose

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HIST30060

Partner (Dublin Core)

University of Melbourne

Type (Dublin Core)

Photograph

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Home & Family Life
English Food & Drink
English Recreation & Leisure

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

Australia
Melbourne
Sydney
family
painting
yoga
hiking
alcohol

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

First Lockdown
Family
Cocktails
Wine
Painting
Yoga
Music
Lego
Hiking
Love

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

HIST 30060 University of Melbourne Syllabus

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

11/13/2022

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

11/14/2022

Date Created (Dublin Core)

03/31/2020

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Covid 19

This item was submitted on November 13, 2022 by Rose using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://www.covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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