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Experience of the pandemic
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um,
can you just share some of your personal experience about the COVID and lockdown?
How was it for you? How you survive?
And how was the challenges, the experience, what you learn and so on.
Yeah. Uh,
well, I would say it was fair because I had some good experiences
and not so bad experiences.
And, uh,
I think most of all was the fear and the paranoia.
You weren't sure? Like everything you touched had covid,
you know, you had to put on a mask.
So it was It was very scary.
You know, it was really, really scary
touching anything because
we didn't know what we were dealing with.
And, uh,
working from home.
It felt a bit,
you know,
and fatigued,
being in one space
and not moving and, uh,
only having, I think,
was it one form of exercise a day
going out shopping at different intervals. It felt
it felt like society changed a lot. And,
you know,
you didn't have much freedom like you used to. Luckily,
I didn't lose any friends or family members
and I didn't
test
positive for covid through the first wave. Second wave, all the waves.
I didn't test positive for covid. So
this is something that I think was
I was lucky not to test for covid test positive for covid.
What was the like, um, you learn about this lockdown or what was like
that you
that you knew that you learn it. And for example, if you have some online
work from home or so on, So,
yeah, uh, I think,
you know, given the fact that yeah, I was home,
but I was working from home,
Uh, so it was a bit hard to draw the line between getting off work, you know,
because if you are at the office now, computers are at the office
and, you know, OK at five PM,
I'm shutting down, and I'm leaving the office.
But here it could be five PM, and you still stay active
and try to keep working,
which was a bit,
you know, uh,
it was a bit exhausting and and and fatiguing,
but, uh,
almost everyone found themselves learning different things. I think for me,
I learned, uh,
audio editing. I did some tutorials with Adobe Edition,
and I started just a podcast about an election we
are having back home and It was a nice experience,
you know, trying to learn something new,
because that's a skill that I added to myself. And during
the time over, uh, I had some people come to me to ask about how to edit audio,
and I've helped them.
So it is a skill that I
I'm
I'm happy I learned during
I also help me work on new challenges with my work
trying to learn some programming stuff with power share and python.
I'm trying to tack on some more challenges within my
work, which is,
aside from the daily work but some interesting experiences and stuff, OK,
And, uh, like how you're communicating
with your friends family,
uh, like,
on telephone, or like which platform are you using?
Yeah, well, of course, I think most of my family was
We talk through WhatsApp
or is checking on each other. Are they safe?
It was a bit challenging because, to be honest,
working from home
is not really practical
in Africa where I come from. So, like my some of my family members, my friends,
they lost their jobs because,
you know, we don't really have,
uh,
you know, like, uh, internet in their homes.
So you cannot say that
someone is going to work from home that easy.
So it it it it was a challenge. But
we use mostly to communicate on WhatsApp
and also on video and also for for for things like
the church and some prayer groups.
We mostly kept it with, uh,
zoom
and also Facebook live. So they were live streaming their chat services,
and you could easily join from there.
Thank you very much for your,
uh, sharing of your time. And thank you so much. Have a nice day. Thank you too.
Bye bye.
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