I settle into the teaching year. It's slow as always with the spectre of Covid hanging over us. We go through establishment routines and I get used to having a form class which is an extra level of responsibility and more work. I'm not used to the rush and aware it's going to get worse. Hopefully bonding with these kids will enable me to get through the next five years of being their school mum.
Meanwhile Kahu moves into James's place. Gone. It's not so bad the second time. I have a beautiful house to live in rather than the falling apart, musty smelling, drafty home I had when he left for Arkansas in August 2019. But I'm rattling around. It's too big for one person so I start taking pictures to make an ad on Marketplace and Trade Me for flatmates. If I'm getting one I may as well have two. I need to finish the house and, as Kahu has reminded me on more than one occasion, buy my own car.
Greg comes round to hang up more stuff, on Valentine's Day I get a chewing gum wrapper folded into a tiny heart, Wednesday is bowls, I'm getting better, and in between it all, I go to the beach.
- 454 new community cases
- 8 new cases identified at the border
- 27 cases in hospital
- 24,820 total tests in the last 24 hours
What you need to know: Auckland moves to alert level 3, rest of New Zealand to level 2
From 11.59pm Sunday 14 February, Auckland will move to alert level 3 and the rest of New Zealand will move to level 2 for three days until midnight Wednesday 17 February.
The move was announced by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern tonight after three members of a family living in the South Auckland suburb of Papatoetoe tested positive for Covid-19.
They are the country's first cases of community transmission since late January when a returned traveller in Northland tested positive after leaving quarantine.
Ardern said the alert change came out of an abundance of caution and would be reviewed every 24 hours.
"Three days should give us enough time to gather further information, undertake large scale testing and establish if there has been wider community transmission," Ardern said.
"I think it is an example of how tricky Covid-19 has always been."
She said it was a "good, timely reminder too, to everyone, please turn on the Bluetooth function and keep scanning."
17th February
As numbers begin to soar into four-digit territory for Covid-19, Pasifika make up about half the current cases.
Community leaders are pushing hard to get enough resources out to families to help with self-isolation.
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