A young person living in Turkey discusses online education and going through their internship during the Covid-19 pandemic

Uh, hello. Nice to meet you. Hello. So first question

So what is your name and where do you come from? Uh, my name is I'm from and my name is I'm from, uh, Turkey. Istanbul, Istanbul. Ok, so I would like to ask you today, uh, how the pandemic of COVID-19 has changed your life

Uh, it definitely changed my life a lot. Uh, first of all, I'm studying law in university. When the covid started, I was just changed to change my college and I was studying in

Then I decided to come Istanbul, uh, to experience more economical, because the Istanbul is the economical centre of the turkey. So I thought that I should do my internships in Istanbul, but, uh, I came to the Istanbul. I changed my circle

It was very hard process. Uh, but I I make it then, uh, just, uh, four or five months I studied in my university face to face. Then suddenly everything changed

It was, uh I'm still, um, located in Istanbul, studying, but from my home and some of my teachers, I can't even know them personally. I can't, um I couldn't meet them. Uh, I don't know they How? Uh, that was that was kind of really the best

Because in law, uh, you should not do a professor, and it's not happening in the face to face, like in the, um, computer system. Yes, that's true. That's true

So you are in new situation in your life. You started, uh, studying different city. You find yourself

How do you feel with that? What was your staying in the new city? Uh, in Pande during the pandemic. Like what? How did you feel with with staying in a new city? Like like Istanbul during the pandemic? How was, uh how do you feel? Um, you were with your friends with your family. How was your relationship with, uh uh, it was like, uh, quarantine

It was like, it's kind of, I think, because our quarantine is like, two days quarantine in the weekends and the workday, we can go to our works. Uh, like, just on the schools. Students students are still online from home and in weekdays

I'm just, uh, off my computer. I I just entered my system school system. I just watch all my, um lessons

Then it's free to me. Uh, it's free to go outside. And I can I can, uh, literally do anything in the weekdays, but in but in

You cannot attend this in weekend, but in weekend, er there is a quarantine for two days. It doesn't make sense, like, is it a is? Covid has weekdays and weekends like it's holiday. So how do you feel that? Is it the confusion or, uh, what do you suggest? How is your feeling about it? I think it was a really unuseful system for our quarantine thing

Um, but it was because of the turkey's economical situation, because we couldn't be able to handle whole, uh, quarantine because every shops are closed. Everything Because, uh, yes, because of that, I think. Did you change some? Did you change your habits during the pandemic? Of course

Yeah. Um, I was Or I used to be a so active person. And I do Latin dances

I I attend. I attend sailing classes. Um, and what else? And during the pandemic during the pandemic, how everything was closed, I couldn't do anything

I'm just It was so boring to, uh it was also boring and not useful for my, um, academic life like I couldn't even understand my third grade like, and it was such a big, um it was such a big part of my low education. And, uh, I couldn't understand the thing about my third year lessons. Uh, and in this year, it's a little hybrid

We called it hybrid. You can go to the school if you want, or if you don't want, you can stay home and watch your lessons from them and that. But that's the key

Uh, I, uh I never go to the school like I used to go because it's so easy to attend in your home from a cafe from a, um I don't know, somewhere your habits. And it's definitely changed my habit when we were in when schools are closed in 2020. Uh, yeah, yes, yeah, in the in the first year of the quarantine and I was, like, play school, I I want to I wanted the schools to be open, but now it was open, actually

And none of my, um, colleagues also don't go to school and just attend online because it was such a process. Uh, wake up in the morning at six. Get on the, uh, Metro

Then, uh, then I go to the ferry cross to boss to my school. So what do you think? Do you think that you became more, uh, easy? I mean or more, Um, uh, comfortable to not take that that way to school. And, uh, it is it your choice or this is something that is going to to come back to normality

And I think, um, I still do. I still kept myself safe in the public in the subway, actually, in Istanbul in the eight o'clock in the Monday Sunday in workdays. It was like, There's no way that I can be affected

Uh, also also, it was easy to stay at home. Like if my lessons start at eight, for example, I don't have to wake up at six. OK, so, you know, to dress up, wear some makeup

Yes, it takes like that's true. So both. So do you want to add something to your story? Yeah, there's an additional thing

Um, I think in this whole online education thing has disadvantage. And the advantage and disadvantage is that, um it was not effective, like, face to face, uh, education, uh, of course. Um, I'm complaining about this, but because of this turns into a habit

That's why I can't change it. Because it was easy. It was easier

So maybe I should change my habit of not understanding from computer. Maybe that's my thing to distract from a computer. Um, maybe I should focus more

That's it. Ok, thank you very much for for for this interview. Thank you very much

Thank you..