IAIN, 11 YEARS OLD, MADRID: I WONDER, SELF-INTERVIEW UNDER LOCKDOWN
Ellen Duthie
In our first #SelfinterviewUnderLockdown, 11-year old Iain from Madrid has something to say about adults' insistence that "EVERYTHING WILL BE OK":
“I understand it's well-meaning and they are trying to keep children happy but to say "everything will be OK", "everything will be OK", "everything will be OK" is not very useful to me because NOT everything will be OK. Not everything is OK! People are dying, so no, not everything is OK. Of course, things might improve eventually, but this is going to affect the following months, years. And, I don't know. Not everything will be OK. And this is a message some people believe MUST be conveyed to kids. But there should be no lies. It's important to tell the truth. 'I hope you are well', 'I hope you are having as good a time as possible'. But not that everything's going to be OK because it's not.'
This interview is by Iain, who is 11 years old and lives in Madrid.
Iain is in primary 5 in Spain (the equivalent of year 6 in the UK) and when he self-interviewed he had already spent almost three weeks under lockdown and had not left the house at all for almost 2 weeks. You will hear Iain speak in Spanish, but can follow what he’s saying by reading his words in English on the screen.
I WONDER, SELF-INTERVIEWS UNDER LOCKDOWN is a Wonder Ponder project where we invite people aged 5 to 18 to ask questions (wonder) and think about (ponder) about the coronavirus crisis and its consequences through self-interviews in audio, written or illustrated format.
if you want to send a self-interview for us to include it in the project,
please read this entry and follow these instructions.
Listen to, read or look at other self-interviews under lockdown here.