My Activities While Staying at Home During Pandemic

How's your condition at home? How's your family? Are you busy? Do you enjoy stay at home for a long time or start getting stressed? Well, I am kinda busy because I have to handle many activities at home. I'm a 5th-semester student and my life is also quite busy for college. When you're a student and must stay at home, it has a little distracted. Basically, I really enjoyed it when I stayed at the dorm last semester. Due to the coronavirus, all the students must be taken to home. At home, I see my parents' duties are quite much and getting older and they have to take care of the rice field and home at one time. My parents are farmers. They are very busy as the commodities of agriculture are needed every year and time. So they must be ready. To lighten their loads, I decided to handle some of the activities at home so that my parents could focus on their projects.

When the adzan comes for about at 4.30 a.m, my family and I are ready going to pray subuh. At dawn, my dad takes care of the livestock like feeding the domestics and cleaning their dirties. How about me? Because it was quite dark, my dad asked me to accompany my mom shopping for groceries and vegetables. I do it every day, it's like her bodyguard. After that, we're already back at 5 am. I start helping mom by separating and cleaning the vegetables. Our dishes are ready before 6 a.m because my parents go to rice fields early morning. Due to staying at home, my mom and I are quite compact in cooking. We cook together. Sometimes my mom teaches me how to make my own foods such as klepon, crackers, salad and others. My mom said that homemade snacks are better and safer for a family during this pandemic. When I have free time, I practice making it even though the taste is not good as she made it. I usually make it after lunch, so we can eat it at supper time with family. My parents go home at 4 pm, I know they are already tired. Then, I make dinner for them. My mom already taught me how to cook simple dishes for dinner, so I don't mind about it. After the dinner is ready and we have it, we spend family time together.

 There are a lot of activities that make me feel like a housekeeper. All things at home are my responsibility since my parents go to work, include the livestock and the garden. The first thing that has to do is to make sure the home keep clean. I usually sweep the floor every morning. Then, I mop the floor and clean the cobweb on the well once a week. it is not new for me because I had done it habitually when I was in a dorm. Cleanliness is the key to health. Second, washing the clothes and the dishes. Washing family clothes are easy for me. Sometimes I use the washing machine or do it manually. It depends on the weather. 

Then, I wash all the dishes after dinner time. Not only that, while I'm staying at home, I have to take care of the livestock and the garden. I feed the livestock twice at noon and dusk and water the garden once only in the morning. For my income, I do little job that I afford. First, I sell ice cubes. It began from Leadership Training Assignment in college which asked me to make a small business. I already have a regular customer so the business still runs. 

Even though it earns a small income, but the income can be used for monthly electricity and gas bills. Second, I tutor my neighbours' kids. I actually don't want to do it, but their parents asked to tutor their children and pay me because most of them don't understand new technology. The kids usually come to my home every evening at 6 pm. I tutor them only for 1,5 hours because there are other jobs that I have to do. My other job is typing services. I service like translating documents, entering data entry, making resumes and PowerPoint. This type of job is freelance so I can work it as long as I have free time. All the things I do at home, include my job.

I may have a lot of things at home, but I never underestimate my main job as a student. Online classes have many impacts on the students especially in presenting the material and doing the assignments. I only have one problem, it is a poor connection. I live in a village where the signal has been up down or not stable. Even though there is a problem like that, I try to focus and enjoy the class. I also join some organisations, committees, and training. When I join them, I get new insights and wide networking. It's like running a company such as meeting and holding projects. I do most of them on Saturday. Having many activities will not run well if your body is not fit. I do sports as possible. I usually go jogging twice a week, Monday and Thursday. I do a simple workout such as the plank, push up, and sit up regularly for about 20 minutes each day. Then, I have played basketball or badminton with friends every weekend.

Doing many activities will run well if you have good time management. I manage my time based on how important thing is. I usually finish my college assignments first, then followed organisations and jobs. I consider home activities like cooking, feeding livestock, and cleaning is not big problems. If you do them habitually, it is like you build your own house. The things that I do right now are solely a form of reciprocation for my parents. I want to lighten their jobs so that they can sleep well all night. It also makes my life more productive and discipline. When you already have done many activities, you should take your time!