A Strange Weekend in Seville
Yes, we did. Our family traveled hundreds of kilometers to Seville as life ground to a halt in Spain due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Before detailing our bizarre weekend, I want to describe our thinking heading into the trip. I do so, not to defend our decision to travel, but to record for my own memory and to communicate to others how we were processing these unprecedented times. I am writing this post in late April, but we left for Seville on March 13. To understand our perspective at the time, one has to travel back to the days before the world shut down and daily life changed at a drastic rate. The overall attitude in Southern Spain seemed to be that, while the situation was escalating in Madrid, daily life should be able to mostly continue as normal. Conversations were about whether Spaniards would be able to continue their customary warm greetings, with kisses on both cheeks, not about whether we were on the brink of a worldwide lockdown. On Friday morning, I went to the school