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

October 26, 2020

Long weekend

I am writing my blog after 1 month due to my exams. This blog is about all the fun activities after my exams.

We went to “Royal Thai Air Force Museum” or “RTAFM” on Sunday. The museum was all about planes. My dad explained that there were 2 types of engines called propeller and jet. The planes were of actual size. The exit was looking funny because it looked like a plane door (inside and outside). We also sat in the cockpit of a cargo plane. I got inside the cockpit by climbing up short stairs. I felt really excited while sitting in the cockpit. There were more than 100 control switches. My dad explained to me the settings of a plane.

My family went to a province called Pattaya. We stayed in a hotel after Covid, the first time. Yippee!!! My family went there to relax and enjoy. There was a swimming pool and a waterfall with 2 slides.  The second, big slide was 1m deep. Can you try to guess where the small slide landed?  My height was 1.2 m.  After check-in, we went to the swimming pool. First I went to the small slide’s stairs and climbed them up. Hold on tight!!! Splash! I fell in to the deep water. But my mom caught me. I also learned floating on my back.

For Occupation subject, our class made sushi for lunch. First, we voted for the menu for the class on 14^th October. Sushi got maximum votes – 24 out of 28 votes. Our class was divided into five groups. I and my friends group’s name was Rainbow. We then divided what to bring to make Sushi. I needed to bring a cutting board, boiled shrimps, radish, shoyu, wasabi. On that day, we made sushi in the third and fourth subject. Before making sushi, there was a break so we could get all the things ready. I was wearing a red apron. I found it easy to make. Sushi made by our group tasted like sushi from a restaurant. I enjoyed this activity and hope that there would one more activity like this.

On the next weekend, we went to a mall to see “Dino Fest”. When I and my younger brother entered there, we saw

Real Living Dinosaurs.

The dinosaurs were moving their tails and heads and even fighting with each other. They were making fierce noises. I was not scared of them. Suddenly, it was raining, and T-Rex came inside the mall. It tried to scare the children away. I was a bit scared. The T-rex was having an easy life like eating ice-cream, going to a beauty parlour, eating bread, and even going to a sale!!!

One afternoon, I and my younger brother went to play and saw our friends holding a stick with a bell attached and a collar. They were going on a healthy (not a car scratcher), pet cat hunt. We found one cat after 15 minutes near an empty house. We discussed who will be this pet cat’s owner. My friends said “I don’t have a pet so I and my younger brother should be the cat’s owner”. I was delighted to get a pet cat but my parents did not allow the cat to come inside the house. The first time we didn’t put the collar on the cat’s neck because she was very sleepy. After we let the cat go, we played test.

One of my friends was teacher while I and my younger brother were her students. I got 100 out of 100 while my younger brother got 99 out of 100. Later, we found the cat again. So we put the collar on her neck. I saw that the cat was rubbing her face on the branches of a tree with spiky leaves. I thought that the best name for her is Shinyeyes because the cats eyes are green and very shiny. After this day, we have not seen the cat. I hope that Shinyeyes comes back as I am making a new collar for her.

On this Sunday, 25^th October, we celebrated a festival called “Dasara”. It is a festival when Lord Rama killed demon Ravana. I and my younger brother made flowers from pistachio shell. My mom couldn’t make flowers from Lego so I made flowers out of them instead. On that day, we did a pooja of books and pencils. We wore traditional Indian clothes for the pooja. We also wore the same clothes while playing with our friends. They asked us why we were wearing such clothes. I told them that we are celebrating an Indian festival today.

Now my finals are coming. I will write the next blog after my exams because I will have holidays after the exam.