Bringing classrooms to the bedroom.

Corona Virus must be laughing out loud, triumphantly seeing our current situation if this pandemic is one of the antagonists in novels or movies. How annoyed I w

as every time I imagined this. Even though the current situation is real and not a movie, I have not lost hope that all of us, the human race, the protagonist, will win in the end. Although I can't deny it, the current situation is really tiring, and doing all campus tasks is quite challenging in this situation. My mind is right now, really unorganized and unfocused. Both of my parents are in Indonesia; they keep worrying about their children. We all are living separately right now. My younger sister is also in Indonesia but in a different city from my parents, and my youngest brother is in New Zealand. Currently, in Indonesia, COVID-19 cases confirmed there are about 5,516 cases, the death rate reached 496, and recovery of 548 (updated 23 hours ago as I write this story). Reading the news every day seems to make us mentally down.

I am grateful for my decision at the beginning of the year by buying my parents smartphones so that we can all communicate while looking at each other. I am happy because I managed to force them to use a more advanced phone. So they can be my support system through video calls every time I feel unable to get through something complicated. A few days ago, during Easter, I also tried to invite my parents to attend an online Mass organized by the church. My mother said they felt awkward joining the live streaming of Mass. I, too, honestly. And my mother finally said that "we must be able to present our church in our homes." I understand my mother's intentions; our sense is very influential in attending online meetings. Work, lecture, meetings, worship, when our sense is not added, it might be in vain. Complicated, but it must be able to. Even though everything is virtual, we must be able to imagine everything in its actual state, so that we can really experience the process. We have to be able to bring our classroom into our bedrooms.