1. When and how did you receive the news about coronavirus? What was your first reaction?

The first we learned about Corona virus from online news portals. In the beginning, we thought that about ninety per cent of these fear was just online hoax and it was not going to be as much dangerous as a pandemic.

2. Was it your decision to stay in Azerbaijan during the pandemic time or it was too late to leave the country? (if yes, why?)

It was too late to leave Azerbaijan and fly to our homeland. Because when we understood about its outbreak, then all flights had already been cancelled indefinitely.

3. Your life in Azerbaijan during the pandemic.

We assumed that our life might be very difficult in Azerbaijan during the pandemic. Because all of our family members became jobless and it was quite impossible to bring our living expenses as well as the tuition fee to Azerbaijan. But our university continuously helped us financially in these cases.

4. Does your university supply you with online classes? Do you attend the online classes? What are the advantages and disadvantages of online classes?

Yes, our university supplies us with online classes and every time we attend our lessons attentively. Although online classes are interesting and obviously a new experience for us, this system has some disadvantages. Especially for some foreign students like us. The first one is, we don't have any computer in our dormitory to participate lessons perfectly. We depend on mobile phones and these devices are not enough for understanding the speeches and presentations of our teachers clearly. Sometimes internet speed falls off during the lesson because of bad weather. Then it feels irritating. Secondly, we face some problems in the question-answer part of our classes, it seems like a sound pollution when many students speak together. We strongly believe that we could have learned better if we would have attended classes directly at the university.

5. Coronavirus: the pros and cons of keeping universities closed.

Since surviving at any cost is the most significant necessity and right for human being and obviously it is more essential than education and any other thing, keeping universities closed is the best decision from the government. Actually nobody has any other choice.

6. How do you spend your time now? Has anything changed in your daily routine? Hobbies before and during COVID-19.

We spend most of our time browsing internet, writing articles in several portals. Besides, we cook foods twice a day and also walk inside our hostel's territory. Before, we used to go jogging everyday all over the city. Sometimes we would go to tea-stalls. But during this lockdown period these habits of ours have changed.

7.  Did you try to learn something new or discover your new skills during a lockdown (yoga, studying new languages, etc.)?

I have improved my skill of essay writing regarding various topics and sometimes we try to practice singing together. Of course we aren't professional. But it mitigates our stress. Also this lockdown is a good opportunity to improve our thinking capability.

8. What lesson have you learned from this pandemic? Please express the advantages and disadvantages of this situation.

Although in reality, every relationship looks like a business transaction, but from this pandemic we have to learn that the world must emerge humanity and start to love and help each other unconditionally. Enhancement of domestic violence during the lockdown indicates that we are not really so tolerant, patient and gentle as we pretend to be. It is the time to measure the quantity of atrocity that we contain in our subconscious mind.

In my opinion, nationalism is a misconception created from imagined reality. So both of Nationalism and Capitalism must be collapsed. We should learn the real definition of happiness as I can feel now what Alanis Obomsawin said. Humans can't survive eating money.

9. Comparison of the lockdown in home and host countries.

Since we are Bangladeshi, our home country is Bangladesh. Our government has also locked down the whole land like Azerbaijan. It's still going on in Bangladesh. Nevertheless, people are getting infected and dying. Because there are about 180 million people live in a very small territory. So Resisting the spread is a tough job there. The government is also helpless. Because it's almost impossible to provide all the people with foodstuffs, when the farms, offices and transportation systems are closed.

10. Your communication circle during the quarantine.

We always communicate with our family and friends via social media and phone. The rest time we keep connection with our teachers here. Besides, a security personnel is 24/7 there for us.