(upbeat music) - All around the world, people are staying home because of COVID-19.

(upbeat music) Kids are staying home too.

These are our stories.

(upbeat music) - Okay, starting in three, two, one.

Hi, I'm Austin and I'm 10 and I live in Calgary, Canada.

When this is over I'm going to freak out, I'm gonna be like the happiest man in the world.

This is what I can do for fun, I'll say don't go outside all the time, don't go to school, it's like everything just stopped.

And this is my Stay-At-Home Diary.

(upbeat music) I live with my Dad, my Mom and my brother, Carter.

(upbeat music) Carter seven-years-old and he's my younger brother.

He is sometimes it's on my nerve but other times, he's fine.

I'm grateful to have him.

Coronavirus is a virus that spreads around the world, and the symptoms are having chills and coughing.

I'm staying at home because we don't wanna spread the virus.

My Mom and Dad are still working at home, I see my Dad working I'm not allowed to talk, when my parents are on meetings.

I don't get to talk to them a lot it seems that they'll work longer hours.

(upbeat music) I've been helping my parents by cooking my own breakfast.

Helping my parents makes me feel responsible.

It makes me feel like I could grow up a little bit.

Pool is different because I do it inside the house instead of outside the house.

School the place where I once learned and played.

The good things about staying inside is less schoolwork.

I get to have more family time.

My family have fun playing card games like Gill fish.

Spending time with my family feels great.

It feels like we're getting closer.

My stay-at-home activity is drawing and sculpting dinosaurs.

I started drawing because I fell in the love with dinosaurs.

Here is a sculpting that I did of tyrannosaurus rex and accurate version of T-Rex, this is allosaurus.

For me, that isn't really realistic.

Well, this one would be more accurate from its skull shape the teeth and the little ear like feathers on the top.

I've drawn dinosaurs, too many for me to count.

A long time ago dinosaurs lived where Calgary is now.

Sometimes I think, oh, wait could the dinosaur have them walked in here.

(upbeat music) I feel in-between about coronavirus.

Like sometimes I'm like, yes, barely in the school, and other times I'm like, my get some stuff to happen.

Coronavirus has changed a lot of my plans.

It changed our family vacation with I was hoping for a lot.

I was like waiting really patiently.

So, I find it upsetting.

So, our family helped me feel better by giving me hugs, and by telling me that it will be rescheduled.

I can't wait when this is gonna be over.

I think the world is gonna be different, because people now know consequences of what happens if they don't wash their hands.

(upbeat music) I'm closer with my brother now.

So, I hope when this is all over we get understand each other and don't fight as much as we used to.

And maybe he'll get into dinosaurs.

The first thing I'm gonna do when this is all over, is going to a dinosaur museum and I'm going to be happy.

I'm like, yes, yes.

(upbeat music) This is my Stay-At-Home Diary, what's yours?

(upbeat music) - Up next, you meet Hanna from Japan.

(upbeat music) - Ready?

Hi everyone, my name is Hanna, I'm eight-years-old.

I live in Tokyo, Japan.

First off, I speak both languages, English and Japanese.

(speaks in foreign language) We stay safe by always wear masks.

(upbeat music) And this is my Stay-At-Home Diary.

(upbeat music) Coronavirus it's just a very new virus that we didn't find the medicine yet, and it's spread all across the world.

I live here with my Mom, my sister Saya, and Oba A Chan which means grandma in Japanese.

My Dad lives in Arizona, USA.

Oh, I normally live in Arizona, he needed to leave our home and Dad behind, because Japan only allows Japanese citizens.

I miss my Dad.

To feel better, I just call my Dad.

I can speak to him any time we always talk to him.

(upbeat music) When I come to Japan, I switch my mode to Japan so, I can speak Japanese and manage to go to school.

In Japan, I go to school in-person.

Inside the school, going to school, you can't play tag or you can't touch each other outside because you're not wearing the mask.

But in the class if you are wearing masks, you can talk.

My family has fun by cooking.

- What are you guys doing?

- We making dumplings.

- Dumplings.

(upbeat music) - Where did she gets this one?

(upbeat music) I put a little in, oh, it's probably gonna be a little more in the center.

And the you fold it like this.

(upbeat music) And what's will happen to this?

- I'll put here.

(upbeat music) - How is that now?

(upbeat music) - My stay-at-home activity is doing crafts.

Let's get started.

- (speaks in foreign language) (upbeat music) - Now, we gonna make a cut, let's do it.

(upbeat music) Then you cut with the scissors like this.

It's gonna be like this, you see right here.

I made a little cut on each side.

You guys can also make it too.

It's going to be really helpful.

- (speaks in foreign language) - I feel excited that I can make a very new origami, because I like to try to make new stuff.

So, if I learned new things about origami, I make it.

This is a Japanese cream.

Big feeling about coronavirus is I'm a little anxious, a little sad a little angry, and sometimes a little happy.

The one that I feel the most is I'm anxious.

If I ever feel anxious feelings, I think about happy things in the past.

I think about the past that made me really happy.

(upbeat music) The first thing I'm gonna do when the coronavirus ends, is to come back to Arizona and give my Dad a big hug.

This is my Stay-At-Home Diary, what's yours?

- Up next we meet Kaelin from South Africa.

(upbeat music) - We're ready to go.

I'm Kaelin and I'm 11, and I live in Johannesburg, South Africa.

It's very quiet on the streets, there's no visitors.

The coronavirus is very contagious and remember, - Stay safe.

- This is my Stay-At-Home Diary.

(upbeat music) Good evening we're at my granny's house, it's the first day.

I'm joined here with my two cousins and my sister.

I live with my father, my mother and my sister, Khloe.

So, the COVID-19 or coronavirus is a small germ, we cannot see all such and it's very contagious.

My family's life has changed a lot in the past few days.

My uncle got affected by coronavirus and passed on, so we're very sad.

When we got the news that of my uncle was positive, we had to use social distancing with my Mom and my Dad because they were around my aunt and my uncle.

My sister and I are staying away from our parents to stay safe.

I'm at my aunt, Vanessa and my sister is at my granny's.

Right now it's a very tough moment for us because, we can't really hug our parents.

At first I thought that the COVID-19 like, it was at least away from us, so, it wasn't so nerve wracking.

But now that my uncle has gotten it, it's very scary, and we get nervous and anxious at times but we just have to stay strong and positive.

I'm positive because I know the Lord has a plan for us, and that if you stay positive, there will be miracles.

Right now, I'm feeling sad and happy, the reason why I'm feeling sad is because, we can't see our other family, and we can't see friends, go to sports, restaurants or movies, etcetera.

And the reason why I'm happy is because we can spend more time with our family.

I've become very good friends with my sister, Khloe.

- I'm sorry.

- She's very cute at sometimes she's like a Rasco.

We have been having so much fun, and we are really close together.

Today, we are at my grandparent's house, I'm drawing with my two cousins and my sister.

We are doing our online school.

School has been going good, the online school and the meetings are very fun, it's very nice to see our teachers, and I love doing school that way.

My stay-at-home activity is playing games.

(upbeat music) - Kaelin, we gonna play that game called blind ball.

- My aunt Vanessa is very loving, caring, and she's always we'll go out to a way for us fun.

And she always loves us.

- Not bad.

- So, I think that the reason why this locked down has started, what God has done for us, is just to stay with our families, and always make time for them, because you never know when you can lose them.

When it's done, I can't wait to be in their arms, and to play with my father prickers and all of those fun activities we will be doing.

I love my family and I am very positive that we will be able to go out and this COVID-19 will stop and get to a end.

It's gonna feel very typing.

The first thing I'm gonna do when this is all over, I'm gonna go shopping with my mother.

- Love you.

- This is my Stay-At-Home Diary, what's yours?

Kaelin out.

(upbeat music) - Up next we meet Benjamin from Canada.

(upbeat music) - Ready?

I'm Ben, I'm eight, and I live in Combermere, Canada.

I'm funny, I tell jokes and I love to be active.

Three, Joseph won.

Coronavirus can make you sick, so, staying at the cottage is to stay safe.

This is my Stay-At-Home Diary.

(upbeat music) I live with my Mom, my Dad and with my little brother, Joseph.

(upbeat music) The coronavirus is a nasty virus, I just wanna put into my hand, punch it, infect it down deep in here.

'Cause I don't get to see any of my friends.

It feels so horrible.

When this coronavirus wasn't here, I used to be able to bike ride to my friend's house alone.

Just thinking about it.

My favorite thing to do is going for ice cream.

But now, I have to wear this mask.

(upbeat music) Joseph has to stay because he doesn't kind of get affected.

And this mask is only for me because if he wears a mask he will sleep.

My brother Joseph, his umbilical Cord stopped working.

So, now he has sullivan palsy and he can't go in public, he can get sick easier.

(upbeat music) Look very treasured.

(upbeat music) My brother Joseph doesn't speak, I can understand his emotions.

(upbeat music) My family normally lives in Woodstoch, but we're at a family cottage to stay safe.

- Joseph, I'll see you next week okay.

- My Mom still lives in Woodstoch because she's a hairdresser, but she comes and visits us when she can.

- Benjamin, be a good boy.

(upbeat music) - I get a little sad when Mom leaves.

- Good boys.

(upbeat music) - I like having a hair dresser inside of my family, because she always cuts my hair when I need one.

I don't have to do barber.

It's really excited for my Mom to come to the cottage from working.

(upbeat music) My stay-at-home activity is building forts.

This is (mumbles) put them together, make like a big wall, the other one made a big housy thing.

(upbeat music) I catch with these darts that if you keep them like this.

(upbeat music) My family is fun at the cottage, because we have big trampoline inside the middle of the water and we go on ATV.

The good thing is that we're staying safe.

I liked staying safe and I like being up here, so I could see my grandparents more often.

Besides can't play with friends.

(upbeat music) First thing I'm gonna do when this is all done is, go to a candy store and see my friends.

This is my Stay-At-Home Diary, what's yours?

- Up next, we meet Marisol and Ben from Canada.

(upbeat music) - Ready.

- Hi, I'm Ben and I am 11 old.

- Hello, my name is Marisol and I'm 12-years-old.

And we live in Toronto, Canada.

Coronavirus is very contagious and to make you sick.

- It's always important to wear a mask.

(upbeat music) - And this is our Stay-At-Home Diary.

(upbeat music) - We live with our papa, our daddy, two dogs, two cats and two lizards.

We are staying at home because there's a pandemic going on known as the coronavirus, and we have to keep safe.

- Never touch your face, even if you washed your hands.

Safety is everything.

- We have to be extra safe because me and my Dad, are kind of like more at risk, my Dad has cancer, I had lung issues.

We're staying home to stay safe.

- Oh, hello there I'm Merrio also known as Papa.

My favorite activity during the pandemic, it's to sleep in my hammock.

- Our papa usually works on trains but he is staying home to keep us safe.

- Having papa at home is so fun.

- We usually try to make each other laugh.

Open your eyes.

When we get to spend time together as a family it makes me feel good.

- Our family has fun making our crystals.

- So, we're gonna be making crystals today.

- It looks like a real crystal.

They actually have that shimmer, we've all been dreaming about.

Oh, look at this crystal, this is amazing.

- Crystal.

- Coronavirus has changed our life in many many different ways.

Places I wanna go are closed.

For example, I really like actual school better because it actually gives me a chance to like learn more.

- I like real school because then I get to see my friends, face to face and go on field trips, instead of doing on our computer.

- Yes, field trips are the best, right?

- We can't go on a field trip with the computer, it's boring.

- Okay, let's get ready for a fashion show.

Sometimes I walk up to Marisol saying, I'm a little scared, want to do something to make us feel better.

So, she usually says yes, because she's usually feeling the same way.

- Our stay-at-home activity is doing fashion shows.

- Watch us.

We just go outside feeling confident.

We just walk the runway.

Some people are like, those girls are cool.

Some people say like.

- We don't care what you think.

- That's very cool.

I really love being with Marisol.

- He's my best, best, best, best, best friend.

- I feel like I shouldn't complain about how unfair the world is right now, there's always like a silver lining to things like this.

I've learned how to ride a bike.

I've learned how to swim.

I was always scared of riding a bike, I'll think what if I fall off?

What if I get injured and then swimming, I was like, what if I drown putting on anyone?

And it makes me feel so much better, because I'm like not worry about getting made fun of it just makes me so happy that, I had all this time to learn things with my family.

- When this is all over, I'll get gonna on a roller coaster.

- I just hope for the best.

I just hope to stay positive throughout the whole thing.

It will get better.

I just wish for happiness.

- I wish for happiness with you.

I did it.

- It is our Stay-At-Home Diary, what's yours?

(upbeat music) - Hi, I'm Austin and I'm 10, and I live in Calgary, Canada.

Stay-At-Home Diary.

(upbeat music) I live with my Mom, my Dad and my brother Carter.

I'm staying at home because we don't wanna spread the virus.

Helping my parents makes me feel responsible.

My stay-at-home activity is drawing and sculpting dinosaurs.

(upbeat music) I started drawing.

Coronavirus has changed a lot of my plans.

I find it upsetting.

The first thing I'm gonna do when this is all over is going to with dinosaur museum.

And I'm gonna be happy.

I'm like, yes, yes.

What's yours?

- Up next you meet Hanna from Japan.

(upbeat music) - Hi everyone, my name is Hanna, I'm eight-year-old.

I live in Tokyo, Japan.

My Stay-At-Home Diary.

(upbeat music) Is a virus that I didn't find the medicine yet, and it spread all across the world.

With my Mom, my sister, Saya and Oba A Chan, which means grandma in Japanese.

My Dad lives in Arizona, USA.

We had to leave our home and Dad behind, Japanese citizens, I miss my Dad.

In Japan, I go to school in-person inside the school.

My family has fun by cooking.

- What are you guys doing?

- We're making dumplings.

- Dumplings.

(upbeat music) - Activity is doing crafts.

Let's get started.

- (speaks in foreign language) (upbeat music) - Now, we're gonna make a cut, let's do it.

(upbeat music) Then you cut with the scissors like this.

It's gonna be like this, you see right here, I made a little cut on each side.

You guys can also make it too.

It's going to be really helpful.

- (speaks in foreign language) - Big feeling about coronavirus is I'm a little anxious, a little sad, a little angry, and sometimes a little happy.

The first thing I'm gonna do when the coronavirus ends, this is my Stay-At-Home Diary, what's yours?

- Up next, we meet Kaelin from South Africa.

(upbeat music) - I'm Kaelin and I'm 11, and I live in Johannesburg, South Africa.

It's very quiet on the streets, there's no visitors.

Stay-At-Home Diary.

(upbeat music) Good evening, we're at granny's house, it's the first day, I'm joined here with my two cousins and my sister.

I live with my father, my mother and my sister, Khloe.

So, the COVID-19 or coronavirus is a small germ, we cannot all touch and is very contagious.

My uncle got affected by coronavirus and pass.

When we got the news that of my uncle was positive, we had to use social distancing with my Mom and my Dad, and my sister and my granny's.

Right now it's a very tough moment for us because, the COVID-19 like it was at least away from us, so, it wasn't so nerve wracking.

But now that my uncle has gotten it, it's very scary, and we get nervous and anxious and at times but we just have to stay strong and positive.

Right now I'm feeling sad and happy.

The reason why I'm feeling sad is because we can't see our, and more time with our family.

I've become very good friends with my sister, Khloe.

- I'm sorry.

- She's really cute at sometimes she's.

Today, we're at my grandparents house, I'm drawing with my two cousins and my sister.

We're doing our online school.

School has been going good, the online school and the meetings are very fun it's very nice to see our teachers.

And I love doing school this way.

My stay at home activity is playing games.

(upbeat music) And she's always we'll go out.

When it's done, I can't wait to be in their arms, and to play my father.

What's yours?

Kaelin out.

- Up next we meet Benjamin from Canada.

(upbeat music) - I'm Ben, I'm eight and I live in Combermere, Canada.

Is my Stay-At-Home Diary.

(upbeat music) I live with my Mom, with my Dad, and with my little brother Joseph.

(upbeat music) The coronavirus is nasty virus.

Just thinking about it.

My favorite thing to do, is go for ice cream.

But now, I have to wear this mask.

(upbeat music) My brother Joseph, doesn't speak I can understand his emotions.

My family normally lives in Woodstoch, but we're at a family cottage to stay safe.

- Joseph, I'll see you next week, okay.

- My Mom still lives in Woodstoch because she's a hairdresser, but she comes and visits us when she can.

- Benjamin, be a good boy.

(upbeat music) - I get a little sad when mommy leaves.

(upbeat music) My stay at home activity is building forts.

And I like being up here, so I see my grandparents more often.

First thing I'm gonna do when this is all done is, this is my Stay-At-Home Diary, what's yours?

- Up next we meet Marisol and Ben from Canada.

(upbeat music) - Hi, I'm Ben and I am, - My name is Marisol and I'm Toronto, Canada.

(upbeat music) - We live with our papa, our daddy, two dogs, two cats and two lizards.

We are staying at home because there's a pandemic going on known as the coronavirus and we have to keep safe.

Like this.

Open your eyes.

When we get to spend time together as a family it makes me good.

It's amazing.

- Crystal.

- Coronavirus has changed our life in many many different ways.

- I like real school because then I get to see my friends face to face and go on field trips, instead of doing it on our computer.

- Yes, field trips are the best, right?

- We can't go on a field trip with a computer, it's boring.

- Okay, let's get ready for a fashion show.

Sometimes I walk up to Marisol.

- Our stay at home activity is doing fashion shows.

- Watch us We just go out.

I feel like I shouldn't complain about how unfair the world is right now.

There's always like a silver lining to things like this.

Not worry about getting made fun of, it just makes me so happy that I had all this time to learn things with my family.

The whole thing, it will get better I just wish.

- It is our Stay-At-Home Diary, what's yours?

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