Knock Down The Lockdown

Corona - a pandemic, people are in quarantine, some are in isolated wards, some are in government shelters, some are starving for food. Doctors, Police, Sanitary team and Government fighting for us with an unknown, not seen, small bio organism(Virus) we call it Corona. What we are doing for our country, yes we are at the home, staying with parents, relatives, some are alone staying in PG's or hostels or bachelor's like me that's the difference. The only support we can give to the government and our incredible India stays home and stay safe.

If you are in a Home, it is good, you got time to spend with your family, recall their childhood days, ask them some of their life experiences. Make a daily plan, don't sit literally or ideally because once lockdown is over, all of sudden, you cannot bear all the workload and other activities, help parents in household works, sharpen your hidden talents and creativity, learn different languages, read stories, do some meditation, frequently wash your hands, don't come out, If it in emergency come with a mask.

Now we are in lockdown 2.0, don't know whether the lockdown will be opened or continued because the cases are increasing day by day, still don't lose hope, we will be surely come out of this pandemic soon with our continuous effort and cooperation to the system.

Yes am successfully utilizing the lockdown, that is the day when our esteemed prime minister announced about the lockdown, I thought, I will be prisoned for 21 days. Because alone I have to be in the room. For groceries and vegetables we are worried, but the management always supportive, gave us some vegetables and grocery shops almost opened with Social distancing. For the food it is ok, what about the other time, how can I overcome the boredom.

But I know as a teacher innovation and creativity never let me bored. Yes, it is the starting days of lockdown, being washed all the clothes in intervals, being cleaned every corner of my room, am started the physical exercise in the morning, am also designed chart papers and some TLM for the next academic year, being downloaded so many support material for reference of my teachings. I am prepared worksheets of all the chapters, as this almost the first ten days of lockdown is smoothly running.

 Thereafter came Zoom Online classes- Work from home. The first time Online class is much excited prepared colorful PPT, ready with earphones, mobile, etc. Even am designed my hall like work station, being utilized all the charts, what am prepared to decorate my work station.

But the day1 of my Online class is literally a flop. For the students it is new and there is some network problem, thereafter from day2 it is on track, now it is going on, not very smoothly, but it is ok as compared to earlier. As a chemistry teacher, I cannot ask students to visualize everything or imagine the topic, I still am giving them some support material, videos, pdf, and PPT.

Starting days of Zoom classes it is Ok, we were engaged for class and class preparation, now we are habituated, and the preparation time decreased. Again it's challenging to overcome the time left with me. But again we got an opportunity to improve ourselves with online courses with guidance from my principal. Am almost completed around 10 online crash courses during the lockdown all are informative and knowledgeable.

Now the courses are over, we are habituated to online classes, my charts are ready, next year support materials ready, worksheets ready, how I utilize the time, Yes again am overcoming this challenge by writing stories, and experiences of my lockdown days. This is how am utilizing lockdown days.