Hi my name is Raboon Redar, I’m from Erbil, Iraq and I am self-taught pianist. It is unlike anything we have dealt with before, things like that happen once in a lifetime, the coronavirus situation can't be easy to cope with. Often you have to think outside the box and be creative.
Besides focusing and spending more time on improving my piano and drawing skills, I had to control and finish my previous university studies, as it was the priority.
As we took online classes in the March and May lockdown period, most of my time was spent on studying, discovering more, and taking exams on my field of study (Petroleum Engineering) which was finished on July 14th. It was a new experience for all university students and teachers. It made us all improve our writing, time management, and computer skills.
For the post-lockdown days, I had to make new plans obeying the new Covid-19 health guidance and rules. I've started to decline unimportant hangout invitations, less often play football matches but remain physically active, and start a good diet that supports good health as we need a great immune system to overcome the Coronavirus.
You may feel worried or upset about your finances, health or your surroundings. It is hard to stay at home, but by doing so you help to protect yourself and others."

My name is Sarah from Iraq, my hobby is drawing. After the home quarantine, I practiced my ideas in drawing and started to develop more in it, but the Covid 19 epidemic affected me and my daily routine, as I woke up every morning and went to my school where I learn more science and school knowledge and deal with my teachers and colleagues with sincere knowledge.  I was organizing my daily activities carefully, attending my lessons and dealing with Facebook in school, and I slept regularly and woke up regularly until my food I used to eat regularly, but this situation changed the scales of my life, so my appointments differed in all aspects of my life as I woke up late.  I only eat one meal a day, and this technique affected me terribly.  Where I used to go on the bus with my classmates and I was a little happy going and I felt that I was interacting in my school life.  But it is okay to share my ideas and drawings with my family and spend time on that.

I also suffered and experienced psychological anxiety, depression, and mental disorders, which affected my physical condition, so that I became sick and became ill with intestinal disorders and mental illnesses, as I went to an internist and treated myself and my father instructed me to do some sports exercises to strengthen my body and strengthen the respiratory system.  My father also instructed me to replace positive cases with negative cases, for example from sleep and depression, I replace this with sports and getting up early.  As well as reading books and browsing through social networking and other things.  I eat important foods that give the body immunity from diseases and replace disease - strength and toughness - and continue with my daily life normally and go out to some gardens in order to relieve myself from my psychological and physical affairs.

 Despite this!  I overcame depression and practiced my work and my hobbies, such as drawing, writing, etc., because I thought that Covid 19 was prolonged, and I do not mind continuing with daily life as much as possible.  I surfed on Facebook and other websites and contacted my colleagues in order to gain some important information for me and develop my knowledge abilities.

 I dealt with isolation and emptiness by filling this void with what increases my strength, so I practiced sports, jogging and some sports exercises at least an hour a day, this makes me able to resist diseases.  I also heard some of my favorite songs and music, watched some social series, and watched some beautiful, simple cartoon films.  Life is beautiful, and we must make it continue with bonding and social cohesion, and we always inform people of good and happiness, and the day of relief and joy must come.