a year ago no one would have believed that things will happen, resulting in the lifestyles of women all over the world will be virtually the same. Yet each regional quarantine – its spirit and characteristics, which observant ladies not only celebrate, but also use for their own benefit. Correspondent “MK” gathered bright and quarantine strokes and life hacks women from different continents.
Europe: “you’ll Soon learn yourself to fill teeth!”
Tanya, Lugano (Switzerland): “the quarantine I taught myself to cut my husband and son. In the beginning we started to cook and eat, but quickly realized that then we have to move more. Recreational areas we have tracked the drones, so arrange the picnic will not work. But just to walk and breathe the air was not forbidden. On the lake promenade, a lot of people. And people here are peaceful, law-abiding – no panic, no anger. With business, of course, many problems, but interest-free loan for maintenance can be issued in 24 hours.
Of a sudden: Swiss Granny, usually cheerful and friendly, which, deprived of entertainment in the form of trips and hikes in the hotel boutiques have become more aggressive. Recently, for example, one a sweet old lady yelled at my child because he ran in the supermarket.
Still surprises me is the ban on the sale of seeds and plants. We are living with a cat, I wanted to buy him his grass that he eats. Saw the seeds on the tray, but got the answer: “Sorry, but we do not sell seeds!” Flowers is also why it is illegal to sell”.
Dean, Copenhagen (Denmark): “Sitting at home, I always prepare something delicious and she will eat. Realizing this, came out of the situation: now my son Marcus on the morning of leaving for a few hours to walk in different beautiful, uncrowded places, capturing a small lunchbox. Walks and Jogging we have allowed absolutely anywhere, not just near the house. The full freedom of movement: by car, by bike and on foot.
the Mask in Denmark are not, but people do not approach each other closer than 2-2. 5 meters. Since April 13 we have quietly opened kindergartens and schools in lower grades, but on special conditions of strict hygiene rules, finding the most part of time on the street and separate groups/classes for fewer children. Since April 20 allowed to open beauty salons and dental clinics. May 10, may open a catering.
Ordered dumbbells, and rubber Mat and three times a week for 1.5 hours doing sports at home. Although to make myself was very difficult, because I used to go to the gym. The first two weeks of quarantine was a period of making a new reality, to organize themselves was not easy, I only wanted to eat.”
Lena, Paris: “Manicure-pedicure somehow AffairsAyu herself, itself shortened the bangs 1 cm with a feeling that you’ll soon learn yourself to fill teeth. Sports without the whip in the gym to do lazy. A Bicycle is prohibited while walking and Jogging within 1 km from the house are resolved. Because of this runners was 10 times more than it was, and they in France came in first place among the social stimuli. Authorities even issued a separate decree that the sports activity is permitted only before 10 am and after 7 PM”.
Tanya, Belgium: “I Personally to the closure of beauty salons take calmly with them in Belgium and before that, it was pretty the quality is very medium and is quite expensive. But my Belgian mother-in-law had to learn to wash your hair yourself: the last 30 years, she only did it in the salon.
the Belgians – people are not frightened that has become particularly noticeable since the beginning of the quarantine. In Belgium, since the first world war, absolutely nothing happened: world war II passed by, there was also no inflation, no deficit, no bandits, no hunger. So in early March, the Belgians have experienced some excitement: concern was buying toilet paper, flour and pasta. Russian, mindful of the deficit, and the queue was fun to watch the collapse of their world: “How, earlier there were 150 types of chopped chicken, and now only 100, how to live?!” But after a few weeks they themselves are tired of playing in a catastrophe: everything has calmed down and stopped making stocks. In stores again abundance, except that prices have risen and buyers in masks and gloves.”
Jana, Italy (Genoa): “In Genoa on the day of my son’s birth 14 April opened the stationery stores. The population was allowed to walk and to move about their business. But the service is still closed, as well as paid Parking in the center. All the coaches my fitness club have moved online, but I don’t like it, so look forward to the opening of sports clubs, it promised the beginning of may.”
Tatiana Chiari: “Sitting at home – eat more, nothing can be done. But the food has become more healthy. No fast food snacks, aperitifs and snacks in the bars, but it is possible to cook homemade meals and sit down at the table with the whole family. You can walk to the supermarket by bike. Opened bookstores, and after 3 may, they say, all will be revealed – will start 2nd phase of exit from the epidemic.”
Maria, Spain (Playa de Aro): “In our little resort town are only pharmacies, grocery and pet stores. The Spaniards are very law-abiding, so the town is completely empty. Today saw instead of charging the young woman dancing on the balcony of flamenco. And during the quarantine I came to care about the seagulls. Recently out on the balcony, overlooking the roofs of neighboring houses, and see me from the balcony waving to the Spaniard in a mask. Became to ask me about the nests of seagulls, if I had seen them?! It turned out that this employee for the collection of eggs by local seagulls, his job is also to monitor their number and reproduction. Now, it turns out that the gulls nesting and laying eggs, and their “overpopulation” are trying to avoid even now. All of this Spaniard in a mask told me in sign language: waving hands like wings, then began to squat, folding wings and screaming like a Seagull.”
Sarah Domingo VEGA, Madrid: “My skin became more healthy, as I don’t do makeup every day and sleep a little longer than usual. I’ve been doing more building and more to communicate with loved ones, which live under the same roof. Still in quarantine, I discovered the main recipe for emotional balance – less time in social networks.”
Eulalia Domingo, Madrid: “my 12-year-old daughter Clara and I watching video the gym and trying to repeat some of the exercises. Clara is very flexible and always takes me over. We also have their rituals of laughter and relaxation. Close to laugh – the best therapy when the future is uncertain”.
Svetlana Slabke, Berlin: “I was the first in Berlin who got sick Covid-19: picked up at the film festival Berlinale, in which spent 10 days on the activities indoors with thousands of guests from all continents. Fell ill immediately after. With my asthma chances to be saved was not enough: lay 4 weeks with fever and hysterical coughing despite antibiotics. It was in late March and only now I am a little relieved, so that the quarantine, which we have extended until may 3, I’m not complaining. Most importantly, I survived!”
Gera, Innsbruck (Austria): “the quarantine I remembered how to cook for her husband and son three times a day, and has mastered a machine for men’s haircuts. Although we have quarantine is almost there, the only problem with restaurants and hairdressers. Masks are issued at the entrance to the stores”.
Maria, Vienna: “Jogging and walking have not banned, just on a safe distance and with a mask on. Try to walk the walk and not use public transport. I think that by the end of may, everything will work normally, except for the tourism sector. Free movement in Europe is not expected.”
Tanya, Bratislava: “the Salons are closed, I look disgusting, but when you only at home, it is not important in life. At Easter we had a strengthening of quarantine: the police controlled, so that people have not traveled outside the capital to visit friends and relatives. The end of it do not see, afraid that the quarantine will be all summer. In Slovakia, the morbidity and mortality, though slowly, but growing every day.”
Lena London: “In London closed everything except grocery stores and pharmacies. But the main problem is the lack of a hairdresser. I paint��I’m blonde with very short hair and need regular maintaining shape and color. But out of despair suddenly began to wonder: how will I look with his own color? Decided to try it. Hair – no teeth grow back new.”
America: “But to lose weight for the summer don’t need!”
Arina, Los Angeles: “we Have people walking alone, with dogs and without, although the official walking trails in the hills are closed. I walk in and take the mask. First, wore glasses, but they fogged up mask. Quarantine use to care for themselves: coffee-tea, potato and vinegar mask on the whole body. Manicure and pedicure “a La Naturelle” with the help of lemon. Prepare the soup. For utube learn to dance like teenagers – very cool! While there is no place to walk, try a new hair color: can I reveal in a new way. In may, expect to peretekaemosti the house and plant a kitchen herb. For me, in quarantine has its own, as the Italians say, “Dolce nonante” – the sweetness of doing nothing. Isolation is brought to Hollywood forgotten peace, and suspended the eternal pursuit of its own tail”.
nickname, new-York: “we have a new “crown-style” – a shaved-headed, not only men but also some women. Everyone is asking each other: how are you using protection?! I found that very funny: last time I heard this question three decades ago in the Soviet antenatal clinic. But the Governor of the state of new York issued a decree allowing citizens to marry remotely. Another would say, where the groom to take…”
Zina, new Jersey: “I Had to dye the nails and hair, something I had not done in years. Eat more, but when I want, not on schedule, when the office lunch. I quarantine the charging itself is not particularly bothered, but at least I went to work, but now only on the second floor of the house. Go to the store with the mask we can, but personally I do not go. Think quarantine, this will not end soon, which is a plus: losing weight for the summer don’t need!”
Marina, Fort Lee: “Golovogrudki their handles and independently cut the nails with a colourless varnish – that’s my problem. I worked remotely before the quarantine, this happens all the time. And to get better we are not starting from quarantine, and from its own habits. In the struggle with excess weight go on walks, which we are not prohibited – in masks, gloves and at a distance”.
Gal, Brooklyn: “the First two weeks of quarantine I spend all day eating. At home it took from the fridge what you want, not what office. But when they realized that the quarantine is a long time, took itself in hands. Now I eat a hearty Breakfast, and then in 4 days – both lunch and dinner. And before bedtime do not eat. We live near the ocean, a promenade to walk and run. Run I don’t like it but to walk briskly for an hour trying �� day. Yet every day half an hour so utube yoga, cardio. On weekends with her husband and daughter leave for 2-3 hours to walk, parks are open. They say that in mid-may we will release our work. But many discuss the likelihood of a new outbreak of the virus in the fall.”
Tatiana, Rio de Janeiro: “I figured out how to stop eating! I’m baking cookies and taking him first to his elderly parents, who are isolated at home. And the rest is sold. For quarantine, my business went much better and I lost weight!”
Asia: “my Husband hid me from the fridge!”
Julia Dragun, beer Sheva (Israel): “I, as the owner of a beauty salon (now closed, like all the others), advise girls to care for face, hands and feet online. It is a pity that, despite the huge penalties, some irresponsible salon owners continue to work in secret, not realizing that it leads to the spread of the virus.
Israel on quarantine for over a month, and I personally almost 24 hours located indoors, except for short trips within a radius of 100 m from the house. Try to limit yourself to food, but it’s hard. And not only me, because the food in Israel is almost a national sport, and the quarantine became to him a spicy sauce. My husband even moved the refrigerator to another location! And one of the rooms was converted into a sports hall. From unexpected: in Israel, there was a deficit of eggs and sports equipment. So that is what is most in demand during a pandemic!”
Olga, Tbilisi: “In Georgia, and so I love to cook and enjoy, and even sitting at home, even more so. I became more oven: only that here again made puff khachapuri. But in my case (3 year old twins), the issue with exercise is solved by itself. Easter we celebrated homes, cemeteries are all closed. I am a believer, but agreed with the requirement of our chief infectious disease specialist, tried to convince everyone to stay the night before Easter, at home. Those whom we have lost, and forever be in our hearts. And the fact that we didn’t visit them this year, maybe you can save someone’s life.”Angelina, Antalya: “we Have even closed the beaches. 70% of residents were employed in tourism and was left without a job. Weekends are closed, even grocery stores, from houses to go forbidden under threat of penalty. And people before 20 and after 65 years is generally impossible, even on weekdays. To travel from Antalya it is impossible to enter the city without local residence also. If nothing changes, we sit in the summer travel season.”
