It happens that before the pandemic, I was still in school busy with my normal school activities when we started hearing rumours or news about Corona virus. Although school was on strike which started like 3days before then,but student were still on campus,I mean in their various hostels hoping the strike maybe call off soon,but it never happened when the rumours of Corona virus started becoming real. Firstly , we heard it has entered Nigeria, that a certain Chinese man brought it down here and has been hospitalized . The hospital where he was attended to was close to my school,at that point,everybody was scared,and I personally wasn't that scared though but a little bit did. Not long after the news,our school then pass a news to all its student that we all should evacuate the hostels till further notice. We all thought the evacuation will only last for like two weeks,so we only pack few of our things from the hostel and left. This was around april ending if I can remember vividly.
I got home in the evening after I left with my friends from the hostel. We all departed to our various houses having the mind that we will all see after some weeks. The next day j got home was the day we started hearing there will be a temporary lockdown to all Nigerians and so we all should gather all what will last us during the lockdown. It was temporary at first because it was a seven days lockdown. So my family and I went to the market,bought food stuffs and all even though we never had enough to buy due to unexpected circumstances,but we did the best we can.
Stay at home and be safe was the song on everyone lips then across all the social media,television stations,radio stations and all. Nose mask and hand sanitizer was also introduced to us,so we started using them all.
The first seven days of lockdown wasn't easy for us all because we have never experienced such at all. I,personally was bored and their are time we have to skip lunch food all because we are trying to manage the food stuff and money since we aren't going to work . At that time,other countries were under lockdown too,so is not only in Nigeria.
It happens that during that lockdown,my brothers,my neighbour and I was always playing multiplayer of the popular football game called Dream League⚽️⚽️. It was so interesting because we all want to show our skills and ability to play well within ourselves to the extent that we give ourselves ranking. My senior brother was the five star general,follow by my neighbour, four star general,surprisingly I was the three star general. There are times,the game changes that we that are at the top is beaten for that day and they make jest of us saying we dont worth those ranking. Those days were fun because we get to know each other well and we catch cruise very well while playing the game,we do start playing early in the morning till night or when our batteries are drain out.
What I learnt during the pandemic
During the pandemic was when graphic designs online tutorial was going and was trending consistently then,so I was lucky to view a status and saw the link to join the group chat on whatsapp where the training will take place. I learnt graphic designing using various app like canvas,pixellab etc.
After learning graphic design, then I saw another online tutorial to learn how to create animation videos using Plotagon. I learnt that too and I did series of work for people on their birthday and some funny video. It was around that time I learn 3D designing too. My pandemic experience was really nice and can't be forgotten. After series of lockdown which lasted for almost a year, my school then call on us to resume an online class,which was what I did till we wrote our semester exam.
That's how my pandemic holiday was spent judiciously. Like I have said in my previous post that I write words that are beyond mere interpretation. I will drop one before I go so that you can think around it " life is like a party rice,you can't get enough",thinkit is actually deep with deep interpretation.