A Child’s Diary: Idhika Diwan’s Corona Lockdown Days

July 20, 2020

Covid is back in the city and school is closed again

On last Monday, I got ready for school on Tuesday by packing my bag. I arranged my books and notebooks according to my schedule.  At night, my mom told me that I and my younger brother will not go to school. I felt sad and I asked my mom why? They told me that there was a COVID- 19 case in Rayong.

A foreigner soldier had visited Rayong the week before. He stayed in a hotel and visited two malls. After he returned back to his home country, he tested positive. So the next day there was big cleaning at various places. All the schools were closed the whole week. My school was also closed. We also did some cleaning in our house. I cleaned my art shelf. My younger brother cleaned the book shelf. Mom vacuumed the house. So it was big cleaning day for us also.

In the evening, my house friend teached me how to ride a two wheeler bicycle. I enjoyed learning from her. She tied a rope to her bicycle and pulled it. We called this game “horsy horse”. Neigh!! After I came back to my house, I said to my mom that “friends teach things in fun ways”.

In our house lane, there are lots of street cats. One of the mother cats has a black, furry, cute kitten. I love the kitten. Meow. The kitten is scared of loud noises. The kitten always watches us when we go and play outside.  The kitten drinks its mother’s milk. The kitten and its mother come to sleep in our yard at night. I don’t know if the kitten is a boy or a girl. But I think so that the kitten is a boy because it looks like its father. Now the kitten has grown up a little bit. Now it has started to walk by its own. The cat and kitten are not our pets.

On Sunday, my family and along with our family friend went to a mangrove forest and Cheddi. In the mangrove forest, there were crabs and trees with roots outside the soil. I saw a crab climbed up a tree. There were lots of apartments for crabs. These apartments are for the breeding of crabs. During this season, a mother crab lays lots of eggs. Lots of companies have made crab homes in these forests. My father told me that building these homes is a part of company activity. It wasn’t easy to find a crab. At first I was excited to explore the forest but then I got bored of observing. Then we went to the Cheddi. It is a religious place. In earlier times, monks used to come in boats to the Cheddi.

My parents told me that now we will visit more natural places.  We will not visit more malls because they are crowded.  The virus spreads easily in air conditioning places. I am excited to explore new natural places in Rayong.

In online school, we are learning about addresses and good neighborhoods in English subject. Our teacher told us to make an envelope. There is a surprise for the students who will bring envelopes to school. I wonder what the surprise will be. I am looking forward to my English class tomorrow in school.

I will let you know  about the surprise in the next blog.