Hello and good day my fellow steemians, i'm Edet Emmanuel Asuquo.

The pandemic had a really tough blow on everyone both positively and negatively i included but then i'm grateful to God for having survived the year.

Here is my pandemic story!

Late january 2020 was when i started hearing about the covid-19, as at then it was not declared a pandemic yet but fast forward to march of the same year WHO declared covid-19 as a pandemic. Still in the same march when i was preparing to write my first semester 500L examination, the minister of education through the NUC advised all schools to shutdown academic activities. Boom my school (University Of Uyo) released a circular that all academic activities has been supended.
Most of my colleagues and friends had travelled back home but i was reluctant in leaving Akwa ibom state for Lagos where my parents resides due to the fact that i was optimistic that sooner than later everything will go back to normal not until it dawn on my me that i can't leave akwa ibom as the federal government then had declared a total lockdown and restricted movement.
From the month of April till July was one of the toughest and longest months of my life, as feeding was becoming hard i could rarely eat a day as things were expensive and the money wasn't forthcoming, i lost weight to the extent i was looking like someone with a disease, but thank to my neighbour then that came through for me.
July after the federal government ease lockdown i ran faster than the speed of light back to lagos. When my mom saw me she cried, but then i was happy i'm home and anyhow things were we will scale through as a family but then God was really faithful.
During August i decided to learn a digital skill, i started learning python programming language to become a machine learning engineer and data scientist. I joined data science Nigeria organisation, participated in the first hackathon and was among those that was invited for the first virtual bootcamp after i came 106 out of over 700 candidate that applied.

Still on that i started building and designing sites using my elder brother laptop as had lost his job then due to the pandemic, i wrote some machine learning programming codes that can be integrated with apps and website.
Below is a link to my github repository
https://www.github.com/eddy1759.
While i was enjoying my programming stride then, the endsar protest came which i participated online but on the long run i lost my phone to thieves as i was apprehended my hoodlums some nights after some police stations were burnt down in lagos losing most of my pictures and files. Since then i haven't been able to get another phone as currently i'm using a friend phone.
In November 23rd had my first birthday celebration with friends and loved ones which i tagged as "Celebration of Life".
In a Nutshell, the year 2020 was bitter sweet. Generally to the world at large it was a period the world included Nigeria and I will never forget as people lost love ones, jobs, economy crashed and a whole lot. Personally 2020 was really challenging for me both postively as i gained a new skill (programming) and negatively as i lost my phone, academic activity delayed, my brother lost his job, stopped programming as the hard drive of the laptop i was using crashed, my sister was operated because she had internal bleeding, the operation cost us alot. But then i'm in 2021 and i can say i was part of those that made it despite the hurdles.

Once again here is my pandemic story....

Thanks for reading.