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What I did on my holiday

Wait and fume

8 January 2022

9:00 AM

8 January 2022

9:00 AM

Write an essay on what you did on your holiday, barks the teacher. My attempt is short: we waited. We waited to get a PCR test in Melbourne; we waited to get the result; we filled in the form designed by an illiterate teenager; and then we waited to get another PCR test in Queensland.

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