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A young person living in Turkey discusses online education and going through their internship during the Covid-19 pandemic
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Uh, hello. Nice to meet you. Hello.
So first question. So what is your name and where do you come from?
Uh, my name is
I'm from
and my name is
I'm from, uh, Turkey. Istanbul, Istanbul. Ok,
so I would like to ask you today, uh, how the pandemic of COVID-19
has changed your life.
Uh,
it definitely changed my life a lot. Uh, first of all, I'm studying law
in
university.
When the covid started, I was just changed to change my college and I was studying in.
Then I decided to come Istanbul, uh, to
experience more economical,
because the Istanbul is the economical centre of the turkey.
So I thought that I should do my internships in Istanbul, but,
uh, I came to the Istanbul. I changed my circle. It was very hard process.
Uh, but I I make it
then, uh, just, uh, four or five months I studied in my university face to face.
Then suddenly everything changed. It was, uh I'm still, um,
located in Istanbul, studying, but from my home and some of my teachers,
I can't even know them personally.
I can't, um
I couldn't meet them. Uh, I don't know they
How? Uh, that was
that was kind of
really the
best.
Because
in law, uh, you should not do a professor,
and
it's not happening in the face to face, like in the, um,
computer system.
Yes, that's true. That's true. So
you are in new situation in your life. You started, uh, studying different city.
You find yourself. How do you feel with that? What was your
staying in the new city?
Uh,
in Pande during the pandemic.
Like what?
How did you feel with with staying in a new city? Like like Istanbul
during the pandemic? How was, uh how do you feel?
Um, you were with your friends with your family.
How was your relationship with, uh uh, it was like,
uh,
quarantine.
It was like,
it's kind of,
I think, because our quarantine is like, two days quarantine in the weekends
and the workday, we can go to our works. Uh, like, just on the
schools.
Students students are still online from home and
in weekdays. I'm just, uh, off my computer.
I I just entered my system school system.
I just watch all my, um
lessons. Then it's free to me. Uh, it's free to go outside. And
I can I can, uh,
literally do anything in the weekdays, but in
but in.
You cannot attend this in weekend, but in weekend,
er there is a quarantine for two days. It doesn't
make sense, like,
is it a
is? Covid has weekdays and weekends like it's holiday.
So how do you feel that? Is it the confusion or, uh, what do you suggest?
How is your feeling about it?
I think it was a really unuseful system for our quarantine thing.
Um, but it was because of the turkey's economical situation,
because we couldn't be able to handle whole, uh,
quarantine because every shops are closed.
Everything Because,
uh,
yes, because of that, I think.
Did you change some? Did you change your habits during the pandemic?
Of course. Yeah.
Um,
I was Or I used to be a so active person.
And I do Latin dances. I I attend.
I attend sailing classes. Um,
and
what else? And during the pandemic during the pandemic, how everything was closed,
I couldn't do anything. I'm just
It was so boring to, uh it was also boring and not useful for my, um, academic life like
I couldn't even understand my third grade
like, and it was such a big,
um
it was such a big part of my low education. And,
uh, I couldn't understand the thing about my third year lessons.
Uh, and in this year, it's a little
hybrid. We called it hybrid.
You can go to the school if you want, or if you don't want,
you can stay home and watch your lessons from them
and that.
But
that's the key. Uh, I, uh
I never go to the school like I used to go because it's
so easy to attend in your home from a cafe from a,
um I don't know, somewhere
your habits.
And it's definitely changed my habit
when we were in
when schools are closed in 2020.
Uh,
yeah, yes, yeah,
in the in the first year of the quarantine
and
I was, like, play school, I I want to I wanted the schools to be open,
but now it was open, actually.
And none of my, um, colleagues also
don't go to school and just attend online
because
it was such a process. Uh, wake up in the morning at six. Get on the, uh,
Metro.
Then, uh, then I go to the ferry
cross to boss
to my school.
So what do you think? Do you think that you became more, uh, easy? I mean or more,
Um,
uh, comfortable
to not
take that that way to school. And, uh,
it is it your choice or this is something that is going to
to come back to normality.
And I think,
um,
I still do.
I
still kept myself safe in the public in the subway, actually,
in Istanbul in the
eight o'clock in the Monday Sunday in workdays. It was like,
There's no way that I can be affected.
Uh, also also, it was easy
to stay at home.
Like if my lessons start at eight, for example, I don't have to wake up at six.
OK,
so, you know, to dress up, wear some makeup.
Yes, it takes like that's true.
So
both.
So do you want to add something to your story?
Yeah,
there's an additional thing.
Um, I think in this whole online education thing has disadvantage.
And the advantage and disadvantage is that,
um it was not effective, like, face to face,
uh, education,
uh, of course. Um,
I'm complaining about this, but because of this turns into a habit.
That's why I
can't change it. Because it was easy. It was easier.
So maybe I should change my habit of not understanding from computer.
Maybe that's my thing to
distract from a computer.
Um, maybe I should focus more.
That's it. Ok,
thank you very much for for
for this interview. Thank you very
much. Thank you.
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