As everybody knows, this special day is only during leap year. Hence there’s a question - do you have any unusual rituals to perform during the extra day? Or maybe you are looking forward for something speciall deliberately scheduled for it? But you can also share how your previous 29th of February went.
I don’t have any rituals, but I’m trying not to ruin it with having bad mood. With family and friends we also swap interesting facts about the day and sometimes do predictions of what might happen till the next 29th or think back and wonder if we’d believe four years prior had someone told us what is about to be.
My last day of February 2020 was consisting of house cleaning, going to bookstore for “Crime and punishment” and then watching a Wisła Kraków’s home game at the stadium, while other family members went for a relatives’ gathering in Dębica. I shouldn’t have gone for the match knowing coronavirus would soon be in Poland (first case was detected here on 4th of March), but I was so disappointed that esports tournament in Katowice was cancelled due to pandemic threat that I was allowed to miss the meeting. Moreover, everybody around me thought it would be just an extra two-week Netflix & chill break.
It turned out going to a match alone was no fun. But I’ve made up for my absence as soon as the restrictions were lifted in late spring and summer.
Hello Max, I don’t do anything special for February 29. In fact I don’t remember what I did last week, much less what I did 4 years ago, 😂. Since my retirement my days flow with my mood: ex: cleaning mood, napping mood, doing laundry mood, eating ice cream mood, have a cocktail mood, traveling mood, reading mood, etc. I don’t even know what day of the week it is, unless I have an appointment or something planned. Regarding February 29, 2020, I was possibly teaching my 5th graders (that’s why I had only two FB posts from that day) . I was already turning in my paperwork for retirement and I was just trying to finish the school year in the best way possible. Little did I know that March 13, 2020 would be my last day of presencial school. Then we had to scramble to create a way to continue teaching at distance. My school was in an area of low income families, most didn’t have internet, many didn’t own a tablet or a computer and there was no solution but to hand packets of photocopies with work in all the subjects. It was a strange time. On May 20, 2020 I was officially retired. My coworkers told me the nightmare of teaching in 2021, trying to learn to use diverse platforms, help parents to guide their kids and feeling that online teaching is not good for elementary school students. However, there was no alternative, because the entire world was going through a pandemic.
Thanks for sharing, Ines! It's sad you couldn't finish the year in person. I heard stories about some kids in my country "disappearing" from schools for months in 2020 and 2021 thanks to having no internet or electronic devices plus liberal approach to missing attendance during first and second lockdown, so I agree these were tricky times for learning. Love to know now you can spend most of the time following your heart!
Hello Max, I don’t do anything special for February 29. In fact I don’t remember what I did last week, much less what I did 4 years ago, 😂. Since my retirement my days flow with my mood: ex: cleaning mood, napping mood, doing laundry mood, eating ice cream mood, have a cocktail mood, traveling mood, reading mood, etc. I don’t even know what day of the week it is, unless I have an appointment or something planned. Regarding February 29, 2020, I was possibly teaching my 5th graders (that’s why I had only two FB posts from that day) . I was already turning in my paperwork for retirement and I was just trying to finish the school year in the best way possible. Little did I know that March 13, 2020 would be my last day of presencial school. Then we had to scramble to create a way to continue teaching at distance. My school was in an area of low income families, most didn’t have internet, many didn’t own a tablet or a computer and there was no solution but to hand packets of photocopies with work in all the subjects. It was a strange time. On May 20, 2020 I was officially retired. My coworkers told me the nightmare of teaching in 2021, trying to learn to use diverse platforms, help parents to guide their kids and feeling that online teaching is not good for elementary school students. However, there was no alternative, because the entire world was going through a pandemic.
Thanks for sharing, Ines! It's sad you couldn't finish the year in person. I heard stories about some kids in my country "disappearing" from schools for months in 2020 and 2021 thanks to having no internet or electronic devices plus liberal approach to missing attendance during first and second lockdown, so I agree these were tricky times for learning. Love to know now you can spend most of the time following your heart!