Write a letter of your friend describing how you spent yours days during lockdown (150 words)
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8/2 Jamir lane
Kerala - 70011
Dear Raj
It was on 10th March, the Kerala Govt declared Holiday for all schools and colleges due to Covid 19 epidemic. That evening I was busy editing the Covid 19 article of Sagar Suresh Kumar to be published on MUNner’s daily. I helped him with getting some facts from News article and he gave his research biology, medicine and virology. The Covid 19 cases were about 70,000 that day, which is much less than what New York State has today. The very next day WHO in a Press Conference declared Covid-19 a pandemic. Just a week later the cases doubled to 140,000 and as I write this article, the cases cross 1 Million in total.
Just after the holiday was declared I was in chill mode, I spent the first few days like there was no college ever after. I watched a lot of Youtube video. I also restarted playing Computer which I didn't do for a very long time. For a week I and my brother were alone at home. Only after the lockdown was declared by Kerala, and Janatha Curfew my mom and dad stayed at home.
Here are a few things which I did and some I continue to do.
I am not a tutor. I love teaching! I am just teaching my brother who just got his 9th std results and got 10th std books. My mom didn't want to keep him idle, so she asked me to look after his studies especially Social Science because he is doing Byju’s program for science and maths. Also, Social was my favourite. I began teaching history, considered to be the toughest and boring. I taught him European Nationalism and how countries were formed in Europe. Soon after that, I started teaching Indian Nationalism and later on Political Science- Power Sharing and Federalism.
Soon after, the lockdown was extended till mid-April my mom asked me to teach him maths and science as well. So I began with Chemistry- Periodic Classification of elements and started Organic. I really love Organic Chemistry. Physics I taught Light-Reflection, Refractions, Lenses and Mirrors. Without wasting time I also covered Linear Equations in two variables and Real Numbers.
It sounds weird but something I put down just because I didn't have enough time. I restarted playing Euro Truck Simulator 2 where we drive trucks across the Europe-I love that game as I love travelling and I love roads.
I also restarted playing Paladins.
College work- Assignments and Online work
Networking miss just in the first week itself gave two assignments. Soon after that each teacher like competition, are keeping on sending assignments. Algorithms, we are asked to do one short assignment every day. Also have SEPM, Web, Mobile Computing and Networking assignment as well.
Cooking
I really miss restaurant food now, it has been more than a month since I am eating only homemade food. My parents didn’t allow to eat outside food starting from 10th March. I curse myself for ignoring a lot of restaurants in the locality when there was no covid.
For years, I have consistently been able to manage myself alone at home. At least making dosas if there is batter at home, sandwiches, egg etc. Since quarantine started my urge to explore more food increased and also my urge to cook and eat as well. So within a short time, I tried out many dishes- Chily Potato, Chapati, Potato curry, Egg roast, Paneer, Egg noodles, Chocolate cake, Gobi Paneer, Momos, Biriyani, Pasta, Gobi-65, cake, panipuri etc.
Delicacies tried out
I am still determined to continue improving cooking and eating throughout the lockdown and post lockdown also.
Since starting I used to watch a lot of travel videos and things like that but since pandemic, all bloggers are like corona! corona! so I partly avoided many channels. I am unhappy that Sujith Bhakthan, vlogger is stuck in Morocco. I hope he is back to Kerala as soon as possible. Recently he has succeeded in getting 1 Million Subscribers on his channel.
Apart from my old set I started watching infographics show and vox for covid updates. Also, Shekhar Gupta Sir, a renowned journalist is doing a very good job by doing Cut the Clutter series on youtube on his own digital news channel ThePrint. They have very good news articles and I have subscribed to them on Telegram.
My favourite Digital News, The Lallantop publishes Netanagri story every Saturday where it’s Editor in Chief Saurabh Dwivedi sir and Senior Journalist Rajdeep Sardesai Sir talk on the various important news happening in the country. They have answered two of my questions on the platform and I am very happy about that. The Lallantop was declared as the best Digital news channel Hindi and Rajdeep Sir won the Lifetime achievement award for journalism from INBA. Rajdeep Sir has worked for TOI, then for NDTV, and later started his own TV news network CNN IBN, which later was taken over by Reliance. He now is in Editorial team of India Today TV. The Lallantop has 12 M subscribers on Youtube and is really a very good channel.