What did you learn about yourself - and your world - from Level 4 lockdown? Email us your stories at the link below.
Maybe you perfected your sourdough. Maybe you wrote a novel. Maybe you fell out of love. Maybe just wearing pants was a victory.
The word "unprecedented" has been used so often over the past four weeks, but is there a better descriptor for what Aotearoa did to fight Covid-19? A nationwide shutdown of all but essential services; a whānau of five million in this together - but apart. At 11.59pm on Wednesday March 25, we were confined to our home bubbles, consigned to only the company we were keeping at that moment. And it changed us.
On Day 13, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, acknowledged: "I miss people". On social media, we fantasised about a new world. Author Elizabeth Knox wrote, "Lockdown has made me want no cars ever. Buses and e-bikes, and e-trikes for older people." Comedian Dai Henwood asked "How would you prepare differently? More track pants?"