This is the story of a young person with migrant background who lives in Budapest, Hungary.

um, can you just share some of your personal experience about the COVID and lockdown? How was it for you? How you survive? And how was the challenges, the experience, what you learn and so on. Yeah. Uh, well, I would say it was fair because I had some good experiences and not so bad experiences. And, uh, I think most of all was the fear and the paranoia

You weren't sure? Like everything you touched had covid, you know, you had to put on a mask. So it was It was very scary. You know, it was really, really scary touching anything because we didn't know what we were dealing with

And, uh, working from home. It felt a bit, you know, and fatigued, being in one space and not moving and, uh, only having, I think, was it one form of exercise a day going out shopping at different intervals. It felt it felt like society changed a lot

And, you know, you didn't have much freedom like you used to. Luckily, I didn't lose any friends or family members and I didn't test positive for covid through the first wave. Second wave, all the waves

I didn't test positive for covid. So this is something that I think was I was lucky not to test for covid test positive for covid. What was the like, um, you learn about this lockdown or what was like that you that you knew that you learn it

And for example, if you have some online work from home or so on, So, yeah, uh, I think, you know, given the fact that yeah, I was home, but I was working from home, Uh, so it was a bit hard to draw the line between getting off work, you know, because if you are at the office now, computers are at the office and, you know, OK at five PM, I'm shutting down, and I'm leaving the office. But here it could be five PM, and you still stay active and try to keep working, which was a bit, you know, uh, it was a bit exhausting and and and fatiguing, but, uh, almost everyone found themselves learning different things. I think for me, I learned, uh, audio editing

I did some tutorials with Adobe Edition, and I started just a podcast about an election we are having back home and It was a nice experience, you know, trying to learn something new, because that's a skill that I added to myself. And during the time over, uh, I had some people come to me to ask about how to edit audio, and I've helped them. So it is a skill that I I'm I'm happy I learned during I also help me work on new challenges with my work trying to learn some programming stuff with power share and python

I'm trying to tack on some more challenges within my work, which is, aside from the daily work but some interesting experiences and stuff, OK, And, uh, like how you're communicating with your friends family, uh, like, on telephone, or like which platform are you using? Yeah, well, of course, I think most of my family was We talk through WhatsApp or is checking on each other. Are they safe? It was a bit challenging because, to be honest, working from home is not really practical in Africa where I come from. So, like my some of my family members, my friends, they lost their jobs because, you know, we don't really have, uh, you know, like, uh, internet in their homes

So you cannot say that someone is going to work from home that easy. So it it it it was a challenge. But we use mostly to communicate on WhatsApp and also on video and also for for for things like the church and some prayer groups

We mostly kept it with, uh, zoom and also Facebook live. So they were live streaming their chat services, and you could easily join from there. Thank you very much for your, uh, sharing of your time

And thank you so much. Have a nice day. Thank you too

Bye bye..

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