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When hen you live in a country where you think nothing can get worse, and something as incredible as this doesn’t even surprise you, and it doesn’t even make you afraid.

I’m Nicole. I’m 18 years old, I live in Maracaibo city. When the media announced that we had to take precautions, it was Friday 13. I’m not superstitious, but the coincidence was quite shocking. That same day I quit my job in a supermarket because I had got a better job, due to start on Monday March 16th. The news of the quarantine affected me deeply. I couldn’t imagine that, except for the food, health and transport sectors, no one would be allowed to go to work.

So, I spend these days with no job and at home. I don’t do much here: I wash clothes, I clean, I pass the time playing with my mobile phone, I read the news or I fight with my siblings when they don’t do the chores.

In our country, most of us ask God for the day, when all of this ends, to come soon