March 22nd Sunday. I am online to a speech marathon. I am watching Singapore through whatsApp messages from the Singapore government which come in with daily updates. The UK online newspapers and family chats. The USA through the newspapers.
Israel has been hit hard. The good news is that my contacts who are allowed to leave home can walk along the beach at Tel Aviv.
So has Italy which is also currently showing high figures.
The bad news?
We can't go from one country to the other because we would be quarantined and could not attend events. For us, everything is going online.
Weddings
A family wedding in the UK planned for June is almost certainly cancelled.
Airlines
In the past month we havve seen airlines cutting routes. Countries quarantining people from certain countries. Other countries banned.
I read:
Battles in supermarkets over toilet paper, in the UK, in the USA, and supermarket shelves stripped bare.
Chinese flag
Hospitals
Hospitals were overwhelmed in China. We were impressed by their building a hospital in a week.
Italian Flag
Italian Experiences
Italy, is inundated. Hospitals, under triage, cannot help the over 60s.
Any good news?
Venice - water is clear with fish and swans seen. (But no tourists there to see it.)
Skies are blue, free from pollution.
We have to travel online.
Stay Home
So we all stay home. No time wasted travelling. More time at home.time for what?
Time to work. time for family. Time to study.
Time for leisure. Time to read.
Time to cook. More family home so more clenaing and cooking. More clutter. And more tidying up.
Time to tidy. If you are online you need to tidy the room showing behind you.
Books For Cooks
What if you have no time to read because you are too busy doing cooking and cleaning when the whole family is home for 24 hours? The answer suggested from a lady doctor in China was whilst cooking to listen to audio books.
Online Meetings
Learning to communicate online. Churches have been closed. church meetings have gone online.
Online everything. Especially Toastmasters International meetings training speakers. Members are students, workers, retirees, life coaches, teachers, all sorts. Many in China want to improve their English. I used go to a French speaking club to keep up my French, and bilingual clubs to learn chinese (Mandarin). The USA has Spanish clubs and online club. Europe has other multilingual clubs.
The face to face in person meetings attract people from all over the world, and this is even more the case now meetings are going online. Online only clubs are mushrooming. All over the world. We just held an all day meeting in Singapore with people from China and India.
The Singapore online club, of which I am a founder member, guided by Willie Loh, has a plan. The plan if for a marathon meeting which is to go 24 hours. When it is midnight in Singapore, the USA will take over for the benefit of their half of the world on a different time zone.
I must go. I am off to another online meeting on how to run more specialised events, speech contests, online.
Useful websties
NEWS
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8140517/We-no-longer-respirators-aged-SIXTY.html
ONLINE MEETINGS
Toastmasters international find a club
About the Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer.
Israel has been hit hard. The good news is that my contacts who are allowed to leave home can walk along the beach at Tel Aviv.
So has Italy which is also currently showing high figures.
The bad news?
We can't go from one country to the other because we would be quarantined and could not attend events. For us, everything is going online.
Weddings
A family wedding in the UK planned for June is almost certainly cancelled.
Airlines
In the past month we havve seen airlines cutting routes. Countries quarantining people from certain countries. Other countries banned.
I read:
Battles in supermarkets over toilet paper, in the UK, in the USA, and supermarket shelves stripped bare.
Chinese flag
Hospitals
Hospitals were overwhelmed in China. We were impressed by their building a hospital in a week.
Italian Flag
Italian Experiences
Italy, is inundated. Hospitals, under triage, cannot help the over 60s.
Any good news?
Venice - water is clear with fish and swans seen. (But no tourists there to see it.)
Skies are blue, free from pollution.
We have to travel online.
Stay Home
So we all stay home. No time wasted travelling. More time at home.time for what?
Time to work. time for family. Time to study.
Time for leisure. Time to read.
Time to cook. More family home so more clenaing and cooking. More clutter. And more tidying up.
Time to tidy. If you are online you need to tidy the room showing behind you.
Books For Cooks
What if you have no time to read because you are too busy doing cooking and cleaning when the whole family is home for 24 hours? The answer suggested from a lady doctor in China was whilst cooking to listen to audio books.
Online Meetings
Learning to communicate online. Churches have been closed. church meetings have gone online.
Online everything. Especially Toastmasters International meetings training speakers. Members are students, workers, retirees, life coaches, teachers, all sorts. Many in China want to improve their English. I used go to a French speaking club to keep up my French, and bilingual clubs to learn chinese (Mandarin). The USA has Spanish clubs and online club. Europe has other multilingual clubs.
The face to face in person meetings attract people from all over the world, and this is even more the case now meetings are going online. Online only clubs are mushrooming. All over the world. We just held an all day meeting in Singapore with people from China and India.
The Singapore online club, of which I am a founder member, guided by Willie Loh, has a plan. The plan if for a marathon meeting which is to go 24 hours. When it is midnight in Singapore, the USA will take over for the benefit of their half of the world on a different time zone.
I must go. I am off to another online meeting on how to run more specialised events, speech contests, online.
Useful websties
NEWS
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8140517/We-no-longer-respirators-aged-SIXTY.html
ONLINE MEETINGS
Toastmasters international find a club
About the Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer.
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