Coronavirus situation hi All, this is a diary of a day in Quarantine in Lombardy in the North of Italy. we are in the epicentre of the COVID 19 outbreak. I've been working in London since January, I

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Coronavirus situation hi All, this is a diary of a day in Quarantine in Lombardy in the North of Italy. we are in the epicentre of the COVID 19 outbreak. I've been working in London since January, I came back every week, but in the last times. I've been locked in London to complete my work to be submitted to the client by the 16th of March. If I went back to the UK I should go to self-isolation for 14 and I cannot work from home. So it was 5 weeks I didn't come back to Italy and left my family alone for almost 4 weeks. My children were away from school for 3 weeks. The day when the work was done, I asked a meeting with one of the big boss, they appreciated the work and we agreed that I can leave London. We agreed also that I'll try to come back to overview the outcome of the project. I was in a harry, but the travel department of the company was already half-closed, and the answers to my request were slowed down. I decided to book the flights with my money then I've asked the way to refound (happy to write, I've reminded myself to recover this money). I booked a flight with Lufthansa, but after a few hours, they cancelled the flight. Then I decided to change the destination to the closes airport to the Italian borders, Geneva. This time the reservation was accepted, then I looked for a train to arrive into Milan, found, booked. (end of part 1)

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The Coronavirus situation

Hi all,

This is a diary of a day in quarantine in Lombardy, in the north of Italy. We are in the epicentre of the COVID 19 outbreak. I've been working in London since January; I came back every week, but not recently ~~in the last times~~. I've been ~~locked~~ stuck in London to complete my work to be submitted to the client by the 16th of March. If I went back to the UK I ~~should~~ would have to go into self-isolation for 14 days and I cannot work from home. So I haven't ~~come~~ gone back to Italy for 5 weeks and have left my family alone for almost 4 weeks. My children were away from school for 3 weeks.

The day ~~when~~ the work was done, I asked for a meeting with one of the big bosses, they appreciated the work and we agreed that I could leave London. We agreed also that I would try to come back to overview the outcome of the project.

I was in a hurry, but the travel department of the company was already half-closed, and the answers to my request were slowed down.

I decided to book the flights with my money then I'd asked ~~the way to~~ for it to be refunded (happy to write, I've reminded myself to recover this money).

I booked a flight with Lufthansa, but after a few hours, they cancelled the flight. Then I decided to change the destination to the closest airport to the Italian borders, Geneva. This time the reservation was accepted, then I looked for a train to ~~arrive into~~ get to Milan, found and booked.

(end of part 1)

Ciao Mario, not bad.

Notice that you are reporting about events in the past, organising for something in the future, so we need to use the conditional - could, would.

Note also, when we are counting how long we have done something, we need to use the perfect tense: "I haven't gone back to Italy for 5 weeks."

Some of these mistakes are a question of learning expressions and that comes with practice - reading is really useful for that.

Keep practicing. Simón.

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