The Colorful Work World
Ch. 85 Changes Due to Pandemic 2

Pandemics have changed all over the world. In terms of economy, health, industry, all affected by this disease. This is only natural because the virus is so new. In 2020, the world is still trying to adapt to face covid.

Technology has been instrumental in reducing the impact of this outbreak. Although pandemics keep everyone out of the house. All segments began to make changes from the way they operated.

From the beginning of frequent meetings to the office for trivial things, now it can be done meeting online. The world of education is the same. Now, they only go to school with a mobile phone and internet connection.

"Mas, the internet's off, ask for tethering. " Say my sister Yana asked me for the internet.

The area I live in sometimes experiences this. The internet could be dead, or more frequent. Internet speed has become very slow. That's why, usually Yana asks tethering from me at a moment like this.

Using their laptop, Yana conducts online meetings to run school activities. From outside her room alone, I could already hear Yana's voice being summoned at the time of being passed down by her class teacher.

"Fafa present? "

"Hadir mom!! "

"Where? "

"Ready, Present! "

It sounds like the teacher is passing on the students one by one. I think my brother this one is quite adaptable to this new normal. Because the average generation is better at using gadgets. Compared to my generation which is arguably newer in getting technology.

After the absence, they usually start the material. Can be done live, the teacher explained then asked and answered. Or teachers give assignments from book pages or provide videos for students to watch. Different teachers, different also how to design teaching.

School hours have also changed. From the beginning, Yana left at 6 am and then came home at 6 pm. Now, online classes are only conducted from 07am to 12pm. There is a big difference.

Yana had to be tired of the one hour trip to school. Now he lives at home for school. I personally am happy because he is not too tired and tired on the road just for school. Either he thinks it's better to go online or face-to-face.

But there are times when fatigue arises because long time does not go out of the house. I'm a home child myself so it's not too affected. Unlike Yana, she is quite active so stressed if you can not leave the house for a long time.

One day, Yana couldn't stand it anymore and asked to leave the house.

"Father, ma'am, I'm going to the mole. Come Roads. I'm bored at home!"

Yana asks the two parents to go outside. Seeing that our area was still in a safe area, we agreed to do so. I myself went with them because I was at home due to wfh.

We decided to go to one of the malls in our area. Although this area is small, there are 3 malls in this city. This mall we went to was one of the newest.

This mall follows the architecture of mall-mall jakarta. It looks more modern than other malls. The contents of the store are also mostly the same as the stores in the Jakarta mall. No wonder this mall is a favorite mall in our area for now.

The things we do are not much. We went for a walk and had lunch together. Indeed, Yana was quite satisfied despite not buying goods and only muter only. It is enough for Yana if you can do window shopping, no need to buy anything.

Not the same as an all you can eat restaurant. This restaurant requires customers to pay for opening. So that the costs incurred are in accordance with the food we take. Therefore, it is very easy to eat this place becomes expensive.

All you can eat is a little different. We eat first as much as possible, then when going out the new restaurant pays the cost of eating at a flat price. It will not be more expensive even if you take a lot of food. It is very different with this restaurant. But indeed the feeling of the food we cook ourselves has a different sensation.

After taking a walk and having lunch, we immediately returned home so as not to meet the crowd. Surely we follow the process and wear a mask while in the mall. Removed only during meals. Adhere to protocols to prevent the spread of covid disease 19.

This virus is spread through droplets. If we keep our distance and use a mask. The chances of us being switched are pretty small. But still, as much as possible we avoid the crowd even though we have used masks to reduce the percentage of infections.

When she got home, Yana was very happy and she continued her homework with enthusiasm.

Yana is fortunately still able to organize her school online. Because he's in high school and mature enough to act.

Unlike Yana who is already SMA, this covid effect is felt once to my smallest sister, Lamda.

When the pandemic came, it was still 6th grade. When you have to learn to communicate with people. He was forbidden to go out and could not meet people. This made his teaching and learning process become disrupted.

Unlike Yana who can already organize her activities. Lamda we can't stay to learn on our own. Often when online school, instead of meeting with his teacher virtually, he even sleeps casually. His son is cute, but his parents and confused brother must watch him while online school.

Often the mother gets reports that she overslept while studying. I could only shake my head because I didn't have time to watch Lamda. Because the mother's job could not be WFH, she still had to go to the office so that she could not watch Lamda closely.

Inevitably, I also interfered during Lamda's school. I checked every hour online, then woke him up repeatedly until he woke up. Thankfully this got him online when class started. Although he used to latch first when he was awakened. Hopefully there is no task or PR that he forgets to do.

This online activity lasted until he graduated and stepped on the Junior High School bench. When it was Junior High, he still had to go online again. So that my duties as supervisor of Lamda continued until the end of the first semester of 7th grade.

I am very concerned about how the future if Lamda is like this constantly. But I must not give up, because he still has to be an outside guidance. Slowly I must guide him to become an exemplary student who is not lazy anymore.

Age like Lamda should be slow if given advice. He won't come in if we break him down. We should slowly become close friends with him first. Especially even though he was actually a child, he felt that he was already big. Though the responsibilities that should be done such as pr and tasks are still often forgotten to be done.

Moreover, he is also already too affected by the gadget. In a day, he can be more than 8 hours glaring directly to the mobile phone screen. It is also difficult to change because it is too early when holding the phone so that the control of the influence of the gadget is still not good. A very unfortunate thing.

Unlike me who holds a mobile phone in class 4 SD. It is still with simple features, unlike today's HP. In the past, hape can only SMS the same phone. So it can not for strange browsing strange to the internet like a mobile phone now.

In the past, children still often play outside rather than just busy with their own gadgets. Where there was once at the age of 6 years, there are children his toys use the iPhone. How different from the children of today from my old days.

Oh pandemic, your presence changes everything in this world. Is that a good sign? Or a bad sign? Only time can answer.

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