Today I had the first sesion with Carolina. The pest.

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Carolina had asked me if I could direct her in a literary workshop. She wants to write " something" but she doesn´t know "what". I then told her to read the first chapters of Boccaccio´s Decameron. It tells about the Black Death, the bubonic plague as he witnessed it in Florence. Carolina is working from home so she doesn´t have much time. She had not read much and the only thing she did was to Google (as I had told her) some paintings from that time. She did not understand what the people wore though until I told her that they were masks so that they would not be infected. I also told her about Albert Camus´ The Pest but she will not have much time or interest for reading. I did discover though about some problems she had that this obligation of staying at home had made worse. For her, solitude was painful. She decided to write about that. I´ll see if I can help her with this workshop. More than a literary workshop, it will help her get to know herself better.