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

September 14, 2020

Mid-term exam ends

This week’s school was exciting because there were lots of fun activities to learn. In the “English” class, we are learning about imaginative and real flying animals. Our teacher asked us to chose between games – HANGMAN and 20 questions. My class chose the game, 20 questions, as it was easy and fun game to play. My class needed 15 questions to guess the answer, which was a dragon.

After that, we watched the movie “Hiccup”. The movie is all about Vikings. They are people who fight and live on a boat and are explorers. The movie is about a young boy called Hiccup and his friends Astrid, Fishlegs, Ruffet Tuffet. They ride on their dragons while fighting with other dragons. Toothless, a nightfury dragon, is the name of Hiccup’s pet dragon. The movie was funny and little bit scary. Next, we learnt about birds. My teacher told us that he we will show our class, a movie about penguins, and parrots. I think so, that he will show us the movie about parrots called “Rio”. I love the movie Rio because it is a happy funny movie, not scary at all.

We have a subject called “Occupation”. We will learn about household chores like gardening and cooking. In this week’s class, we are learning – how to cook food in different ways. I also have homework for this subject. In the homework, we need to make rice and send a photo to our teacher. The teacher told us that in the next class we have to make rice by ourselves. I made rice on Saturday with my mother’s help. I did all the steps of making rice by myself. So now, I am ready for the challenge of cooking rice.

In the subject “Science”, we are learning about animal stimulus and response. So I have been observing cats. Once I said meow to a cat on the street, it also said meaow. When I came very close to a grey cat, it started looking at me. I maintained a safe distance from it, but it kept staring at me. I am afraid of dogs so I am not doing the same experiment with street dogs.

My exams ended on Friday. I didn’t even leave any question in the paper. All the exams didn’t happen on one day. They were spread across 4 days. The last day of the exam was 11^th of September 2020. So, my mom and dad planned a barbeque party. Yeah!!! I love BBQ parties at home. But we need to do lot of preparations before the party.  On the BBQ party’s morning, we cleaned our front yard. We moved our bicycle out of the yard as tires were dirty. I helped my father to clean the BBQ stand. We also put coal under the sun to dry. The party started at 7pm. My father was the head chef and I was the assistant chef. I loved the BBQ party because I like to eat barbequed food.

My dad makes excellent food so we are planning to open a restaurant. We have distributed our duties. Dad will cook. I will recommend dishes and take the orders. Mom will serve and get the payment. My younger brother will clean up and put plates, glasses on the table. My mother told us that our permanent duty is to peel garlics. But I don’t like this permanent duty.   

On Sunday evening, we talked about Mom and Dad’s school days. I and my younger brother compared those days with our school. My parents’ school didn’t have any canteen.  They told us that computer in their school needed a floppy to start. But we, in our school, just press buttons to start. My parents started learning computer in their secondary school. We are learning from kindergarten already. I felt motivated to learn new things because we have latest technology available.

This week we are planning some more “fun” things. I will share that “fun” in the next blog. It is a secret.

Bye and Keep reading if you want to know the “fun”!!!