"See you in three weeks… if all goes well!"
»Eugenie laughs as she greets another mother, and we don't really know if she laughs yellow, or if the routine of an endlessly upset daily life now seems almost comical to her.
After a first “not very funny” confinement spent in Paris last spring, juggling home schooling and teleworking, this 8-year-old mother of twins has this time decided to organize differently.
Freelance, this former executive of a large company goes into exile this weekend towards the iodized horizon of the Basque Country.
"In total, it's only four days of school to manage"
In her suitcases, she takes the nanny on board, and behind her leopard-print mask, she even seems happy at the prospect of the next three weeks.
"In total, it's only four days of school to manage for the moment, and if that makes it possible to slow down the epidemic, that seems to me good", she validates.
But in the midst of the hubbub of this last school trip, rue de Turenne, in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris, not all parents are of the same opinion.
"Oh I'm very skeptical, it would surprise me that school reopens in three weeks", Judge Marion who tries to catch the flight her children of 6 and 9 years which are scattered in the exit of class.
"And why we are confined now when the weather is nice and we want to be outside, instead of having done it in February, it's ridiculous!"
»She indignantly.
However, despite his disability which prevents him from working and his three children under his sole responsibility - the last one is 12 years old - nothing seems to affect his good mood.
In a week, she will swap her tiny apartment a stone's throw away to take the children to their grandmother's in the Var.
“A swimming pool, a lawn, it's all the same nicer… especially if it lasts!
She laughs.
As for traffic restrictions, Marion ignores them with aplomb.
"This weekend, we are staying because we have planned to have Easter with our friends and, next week, I will take care of my sister's children in addition to her because she has to go to work", justifies- it.
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For Baptiste too, childcare should be a logistical headache.
“It is nonsense to close schools without closing the rest.
Me, I have to go there to work.
So it's going to end when I'm going to take my daughters to work, ”sighs this journalist from the written press.
For their part, the two girls have fun climbing a pole, not sad for a penny to leave their classroom.
As for the instructions for distance lessons, the teacher has not yet had time to prepare them.
But I promise, parents will have them in their mailbox by Monday!