The Witchcraft Exam E-Book

Christine Munroe

• Herausgeber: Books on Demand
• Kategorie: Für Kinder und Jugendliche
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 25

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2021

Beschreibung

Join the super smart witch Cassandra as she prepares for her entry exam into the Witch Guild. Her best friend and soulmate, who also happens to be an outstanding witch, studies hard with her but will Cassandra manage to pass the exam this time? Or will she be excluded from the Guild forever?

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The Witchcraft Exam

PrefaceThe Witchcraft ExamCopyright

Preface

I started writing this short story during the second Covid lockdown one week prior to Christmas 2020. Our children gained an additional five days of vacation – whether that was a smart or rather crude decision of our politicians remains debatable. Considering that our children had already lost so much proper valuable teaching time due to the first lockdown, my opinion on this matter is very clear. Especially since by the time of the second lockdown the online portals for all schools throughout Germany were up and running.

My politicians failed to give me an answer regarding why those five days couldn't have been taught from home, particularly since the online portals were good to go.

Perhaps they thought parents hadn't already been stressed out enough during the first lockdown and needed a bit more pressure, who knows. A few extra days at home with nothing to do while the parents try to work, well, it was a piece of cake by then for the parents to swing, don't you think?

You get my drift.

Our children were frustrated and bored and we were irritated and annoyed. The tension was palpabale, and there was no way to escape any of this. Parents around the world know what I'm talking about.

I attempted to write but I was often too drained, lacking motivation and enthusiasm. I mostly managed to jot down ideas for future stories. As for writing coherent sentences or even paragraphs.....that was mainly wishful thinking.

I was spent and depressed and cried a lot, not because I was afraid of Covid but because of what the lockdown did to our children and the emotional and mental state of the overall population.

Our politicians were and are causing plenty of collateral damage and they don't care. On the contrary, they continue to undermine our constitutional rights.

The more they stripped away our democracy, the more depressed I became. In between I stopped writing altogether. I was incapable of putting words onto paper – or on my laptop – for many weeks. I simply couldn't muster the energy. Once I went to demonstrations I felt slightly better but it took a huge effort on my part to pull myself out of this misery.

Despite teaching three afternoons a week I felt reduced to being a housewife and mom – and it didn't help that the world kept reporting how much especially women's equality suffered during the pandemic, throwing the movement back to the 1970s – simply because there was no energy left to write. And no time either. I normally don't mind helping my children with their schoolwork and spending time with them, of course, and neither do I mind taking care of my household chores but when politicians force you to be a teacher, a friend and a psychologist on top of being a parent for months and months, things eventually fall apart.

How can you help your children when you can barely get a grip on your own emotions?

How can you pursue a halfway normal life in a pandemic when you're sapped of energy and motivation and only have the time to take care of the most essential things?