A Child’s Diary: Arnav Kavdia’s Corona Diary

April 11, 2020

Day 8: My life lesson, “You don’t know what you have till you don’t have it.”

4/11/20

Everyone is learning lessons from this time and I have too. The lesson that I have learned if you don’t know what you have till you don’t have it.  There are a lot of meanings to what I just said and this is what I mean. Long ago before the corona I used to hate to go grocery shopping and now I miss it so much. Another thing that I really miss is being able to play with my friends. I miss so many things and I also hope that I can look forward  to seeing them real soon. I hope everyone else has learned a lesson too.

April 6, 2020

Day 7: The school bus parked behind the fence. When will they start their engine?

I looked out the window, all the school buses parked behind the fence. I wanted them to start their engines and come to our bus stop and pick us up. I never thought that I would say this but I really miss school, I don’t think any kid wants to stay home and not go to school. I really miss going to school and all the fun school bus rides I had with my friends. All the fun recesses that my friends and I had.  I hope that the corona ends soon because I want to ride on school buses again.

If there are any kids reading, hope you feel the same way. See y’all tomorrow.

April 3, 2020

Day 6: I was supposed to graduate this year.

Man this whomps. I was at this school for 4 years and I didn’t get to graduate. I have been to 4 different schools in 8 years and this was the time that I actually got to graduate one.

This was my last year at Hes (Hillsborough Elementary school) but this DUMB corona came around and ruined everything. You might think that it isn’t much but i’ll give you a list of what we are going to miss. First of all we were going to have a field trip to B.S.C ( BranchBurg Sports Complex) and we were going to play laser tag. Another thing that we missed was a visit to our next school, and the best thing in the year field day when we get to be as competitive as we want and even our fourth grade show. I have practiced all the songs and it was of no use.

I get so annoyed It is so frustrating just not being able to do anything. 

April 1, 2020

Day 5: I am enjoying increased family time

Do you enjoy this whole close-down? Well I’m 50-50.

You are probably wondering why I “kinda” like it, I’ll happily tell you. You see that now everyone’s home, my family can spend so much more time together like playing board games (except when my little brother is around). And we watch so many more movies together. I love spending time together as a family. It is so much fun. Nowadays when I am bored I write in both my diaries (like I am right now) or I sometimes write comics. LIKE THIS

There are so many things that I love to do when I am at home and there are so many things that increase, like family time (the only thing that I don’t like is that my little brother is always troubling me, and treats me like a punching bag).

I hope that the corona is just like a new flu and in a year or so there will be a cure and if you get it you can just get healed. And here’s a short list of things that you can do at home if you get bored.

• Write a comic
• Draw a picture
• The one and only…watch a movie.

So…there are so many things that you can do with your family nowadays so take advantage of everyone being home. =) Hope you enjoyed my diary so far.

March 31, 2020

Day 4: I miss my friends. I try to remain positive

When our teacher said that we were getting homeschooled I was so excited and thought it was going to be like summer vacation but turns out I really want to go back to school and I miss my friends and teacher. When I try to work at home, my brother thinks that I am going to play with him all day long and that makes it really hard to work. Another thing that I would like to say is that it is really hard to work at home and I don’t have my own desk so I have to work at the table and there are so many distractions. 

Also when there is good weather I have an urge to go play outside. My brother is always playing outside when it is good weather so I always get jealous of him. Another thing is that the sun is always shining nowadays like nature is messing with me but it never shined when the corona wasn’t there. 

And the last thing I want to say to everyone who is upset about the corona is “Just think positive and that someone will always have your back when you are going through hard or difficult. ”

March 30, 2020

Day 3: One kid got corona too

Nowadays I am basically stuck in my house. I can’t go outside to play with my friends and that makes life right now really boring. Also, my best friend Rishab and I used to see each other every week and now we can only see each other through facetime.  My life has really changed because of the corona and I can’t do all the things I used to and it has affected everyone. Another thing I would like to say is a kid from Amsterdam Elementary got the corona and that is really scary, and he was also the first kid in Hillsborough to get  it . I feel really sorry for the kid and I really hope he recovers soon.  

March 29, 2020

Day 2: I don’t blame the nature

Corona  is striking the world. We are the world’s  warriors and we are losing the battle terribly.  700,000 of our soldiers are affected. It is a terrible tragedy and we are  contained in our houses not being able to step out. The United States has 125,000 cases the most in New York followed by New Jersey even though New Jersey is a tiny state. It is so close to New York. I live in New Jersey and It’s kinda scary that there are so many cases in New Jersey.

My family and I were planning to go to India for a vacation in July but now because of Corona we are not sure that we will be able to make it. . For me, Corona feels like nature’s revenge of telling us to take care of it. I mean I don’t blame nature for doing this because we have been mistreating it for 100’s of years. Chopping trees down, throwing plastic into the oceans, causing global warming, and a lot of other things that harm the planet, I mean if we don’t take care of earth in a 1,000 years something 1000 times worse will happen to the future generations.

March 28, 2020     

Day 1: I got an idea

Deepti asked me about the corona and how I feel about it. I thought about it for a second, and then replied,”Hungry.” Deepti looked at me like she saw something weird or strange because there isn’t a shortage of food in the house. I could tell that she was confused right away so I started expanding on my answer. “Well you see now that the Corona is here. Eating at restaurants, like Taco Bell, McDonalds, Chillies, Dunkin Doughnuts etc is not an option and the only outside food that we get is pizza and that is only like once in 3 weeks.”

Deepti looked like a volcano that was about to erupt with laughter. “Out of all the things in the world you chose Taco Bell.” she exclaimed! After she managed to stop laughing she said, “You could’ve said that parks are closing down, schools are closed and you miss your friends, or that a lot of resources are low, or the biggest possibility that you are scared.”

“Well I do feel those things but so does everyone else and I wanted my answer to be different and gave and grin I mean ask anyone else they won’t say what I started off with.”  This conversation with Deepti gave me the idea of writing of writing a Corona diary.

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