((PKG)) QUARANTINE DIARIES
((Banner: Stay at Home))
((Reporter/Camera: Lisa Vohra))
((Map: Vienna, Virginia))
((Main characters: 1 female))
((Sub characters: 8 female; 1 male))
((NATS: News))
The United States works overtime to screen
thousands…..We’re grateful…..
As lawmakers work on getting more supplies, they are asking
Americans to stay home. Is it working?
((Topic Banner:
Quarantine Diaries
Lisa Vohra, Producer - VOA Connect))
((Lisa Vohra, Producer - VOA Connect, One Child))
I’m here working in my room and Aly is in our bedroom
watching TV again. She’s five years old and she’s in
kindergarten. Everyday it’s gotten worse. So, up until Friday
or up until a few days ago, I thought playdates were okay.
Now I’m second guessing that.
((Banner: Before mandatory Stay-at-Home order))
((Lisa Vohra, Producer - VOA Connect, One Child))
And same thing with these neighborhood girls in fifth grade
coming over. I thought that would be okay and now I’m like
second guessing that. I mean, I guess at some point, we
have to realize that even one-on-one interactions makes a
difference and it would kind of defeat the whole purpose of
social isolation.
((Lisa Vohra and Alyssa Leela Gokhale, Lisa’s daughter,
Five years old))
Alyssa: It’s because of the coronavirus.
Lisa: Do you know what coronavirus is?
Alyssa: Because you might give people germs.
Lisa: That’s a good answer, sweetie. And then maybe you
get people sick, right? And we want to prevent that, correct?
Alyssa: Yeah.
((Lisa Vohra, Producer - VOA Connect, One Child))
My husband Sameer and I are really lucky. We get to work
from home. We have so many friends who haven’t been as
fortunate.
((Jessica Slack Rice, Practice Manager, One Child))
I manage a veterinary hospital. We are considered essential
personnel at this time due to fur babies still needing to be
seen.
((Ekta Vohra, Registered Nurse, BSN CWON))
As a health care worker, you know, I never thought I would
see something like this in my life. It’s unprecedented and it’s
been really challenging because while everyone else is
working from home, I’m still going to work at the hospital.
((NATS: Alyssa outside with friends))
Aly, we can’t get closer because of the coronavirus.
((Lisa Vohra, Producer - VOA Connect, One Child))
You’re going to see a lot of my own personal connections
and friends in this, just because we're all in this together.
((Neha Goyal, Manager, Web Development, Two
Children))
My husband and I are working from home and it is
challenging because we have two young kids, a toddler and
a baby. However, we’re fortunate that we have our nanny
who can still come in.
((Banner: Officemates))
((Lisa Vohra, Producer - VOA Connect, One Child))
The first thing we’re doing, we’re cleaning her desk and
going to take it up to my room, so that she can study there
while I work.
((Lisa Vohra and Alyssa Leela Gokhale, Lisa’s daughter,
Five years old))
Lisa: Okay, the camera is talking to you.
Alyssa: Tell me the truth. Was that your voice?
Lisa: Yes, it was my voice. I was just kidding.
((Lisa Vohra, Producer - VOA Connect, One Child))
This is my new office. She’s my new officemate. We just got
everything done, right?
Lisa: What are you doing right now? Are you doing you’re
A,B,Cs?
((Banner: Homeschooling))
((Maryah Roberts Nijim, Landscape Associate, Four
Children))
I have four kids. We do schoolwork from like 8 to10 and then
we take a little break.
((Priya Agarwal, Special Education Teacher, Two
Children))
Through a lot of uncertainty at this point. We have not been
given any directions right now.
((Lisa Vohra and Alyssa Leela Gokhale, Lisa’s daughter,
Five years old))
Lisa: You can see the Z and I need you to copy that.
Alyssa: But what if I might not remember?
Lisa: But it’s right there.
Alyssa: I might not remember it.
Lisa: Alyssa Leela Gokhale. Please write your Z right now.
Right now. I’m not writing your Z. We’ll get back to you.
((Banner: A New Daily Routine))
((NATS))
((Lisa Vohra, Producer - VOA Connect, One Child))
As I’m doing this, I’m thinking, okay, I have it. And then I’m
like, oh my god, another whole block of time just empty. All
right, here’s to trying again.
((NATS))
((Lisa Vohra, Producer - VOA Connect, One Child))
I’m literally editing the piece, this piece and she’s on my
shoulder. We’re taking a dance break in the middle of
working.
((Bumper: Leaving the House))
((NATS))
((Lisa Vohra, Producer - VOA Connect, One Child))
I’m at the grocery store. It’s 6 AM.
((Banner: Before recommendations to wear masks))
((Lisa Vohra, Producer - VOA Connect, One Child))
There was a line outside when I came and it’s just, it wasn’t
like a huge line, but just having a line at 6 AM at a grocery
store, it just, it just made it even more real. It’s like empty
here.
((NATS))
((Banner: Creative Parenting))
((Anita Mago, Senior Research Consultant, One Child))
Just today, I created a scavenger hunt for her. She loved this
idea.
((NATS))
((Lisa Vohra and Alyssa Leela Gokhale, Lisa’s daughter,
Five years old))
Lisa: We’re looking for the voice, the one that goes…..ah ah
ah ah. But I was only showing. I’m not doing it. We’re
looking for that voice, right?
Alyssa: Go like this, ah ah ah ah.
((Lisa Vohra, Producer - VOA Connect, One Child))
I think one of the hardest parts about all of this is trying to stay
calm with your kid because, you know, to her we are her
center and if act all anxious and scared, then her center is
literally disrupted. But it’s hard as her center to keep calm
sometimes because we don’t really know what’s going on
and.....so we just try our best. But there are moments, there
are definitely moments.
((Banner: Staying Connected))
((NATS: Zoom family meeting))
((Lisa Vohra, Producer - VOA Connect, One Child))
We get to feel like we’re better than you guys.
((Greg Pugliese, Policy Analyst, One Child))
Some of the ways that we’re communicating with the outside
world is we’re doing more Facetime than we usually do.
((NATS))
((Alyssa and her friend))
I miss you.
I miss you too.
((Lisa Vohra, Producer - VOA Connect, One Child))
She spent like an hour with her friend on Facetime today and
I had a moment of guilt because I’m like, shouldn’t she be
doing ABC’s, 123’s? And then I’m like, but the girl’s missing
her friend.
((Alyssa Leela Gokhale, Lisa’s daughter, Five years old))
Alexa, let it go.
((Bumper: Perspective))
((Arianna Cao, Beautician, Three Kids))
We don’t realize how important things are until something
happens and we take so much things for granted everyday.
((Ekta Vohra, Registered Nurse, BSN CWON))
So, while the situation is extremely tense, I think that it's
pretty incredible to see how everyone is coming together and
banding together to work through this.
((Christine Johns, Alyssa’s Kindergarten Teacher, Colvin
Run Elementary School, Two Children))
Hi everyone. This is Mrs. Johns. I teach kindergarten. I’m
going to read a book called, “Too Pickley!” It’s for all you
picky eaters out there. Too burpy.
((Lisa Vohra, Producer - VOA Connect, One Child))
Really cool idea. Her teacher, not her teacher, the room
parent came up with, to write letters to her friends but also to
write letters to a nursing home so that they aren’t as lonely,
which I thought was just such a really, really cool concept.
So, she’s writing letters as we speak.
((Alyssa Leela Gokhale, Lisa’s daughter, Five years old))
Dear Claire,
I’m missing you. I’m sad that you could not tutor me. I want
to stay home so you do not get sick.
Love, Alyssa.
((MUSIC))
((Banner: Stay at Home))
((Reporter/Camera: Lisa Vohra))
((Map: Vienna, Virginia))
((Main characters: 1 female))
((Sub characters: 8 female; 1 male))
((NATS: News))
The United States works overtime to screen
thousands…..We’re grateful…..
As lawmakers work on getting more supplies, they are asking
Americans to stay home. Is it working?
((Topic Banner:
Quarantine Diaries
Lisa Vohra, Producer - VOA Connect))
((Lisa Vohra, Producer - VOA Connect, One Child))
I’m here working in my room and Aly is in our bedroom
watching TV again. She’s five years old and she’s in
kindergarten. Everyday it’s gotten worse. So, up until Friday
or up until a few days ago, I thought playdates were okay.
Now I’m second guessing that.
((Banner: Before mandatory Stay-at-Home order))
((Lisa Vohra, Producer - VOA Connect, One Child))
And same thing with these neighborhood girls in fifth grade
coming over. I thought that would be okay and now I’m like
second guessing that. I mean, I guess at some point, we
have to realize that even one-on-one interactions makes a
difference and it would kind of defeat the whole purpose of
social isolation.
((Lisa Vohra and Alyssa Leela Gokhale, Lisa’s daughter,
Five years old))
Alyssa: It’s because of the coronavirus.
Lisa: Do you know what coronavirus is?
Alyssa: Because you might give people germs.
Lisa: That’s a good answer, sweetie. And then maybe you
get people sick, right? And we want to prevent that, correct?
Alyssa: Yeah.
((Lisa Vohra, Producer - VOA Connect, One Child))
My husband Sameer and I are really lucky. We get to work
from home. We have so many friends who haven’t been as
fortunate.
((Jessica Slack Rice, Practice Manager, One Child))
I manage a veterinary hospital. We are considered essential
personnel at this time due to fur babies still needing to be
seen.
((Ekta Vohra, Registered Nurse, BSN CWON))
As a health care worker, you know, I never thought I would
see something like this in my life. It’s unprecedented and it’s
been really challenging because while everyone else is
working from home, I’m still going to work at the hospital.
((NATS: Alyssa outside with friends))
Aly, we can’t get closer because of the coronavirus.
((Lisa Vohra, Producer - VOA Connect, One Child))
You’re going to see a lot of my own personal connections
and friends in this, just because we're all in this together.
((Neha Goyal, Manager, Web Development, Two
Children))
My husband and I are working from home and it is
challenging because we have two young kids, a toddler and
a baby. However, we’re fortunate that we have our nanny
who can still come in.
((Banner: Officemates))
((Lisa Vohra, Producer - VOA Connect, One Child))
The first thing we’re doing, we’re cleaning her desk and
going to take it up to my room, so that she can study there
while I work.
((Lisa Vohra and Alyssa Leela Gokhale, Lisa’s daughter,
Five years old))
Lisa: Okay, the camera is talking to you.
Alyssa: Tell me the truth. Was that your voice?
Lisa: Yes, it was my voice. I was just kidding.
((Lisa Vohra, Producer - VOA Connect, One Child))
This is my new office. She’s my new officemate. We just got
everything done, right?
Lisa: What are you doing right now? Are you doing you’re
A,B,Cs?
((Banner: Homeschooling))
((Maryah Roberts Nijim, Landscape Associate, Four
Children))
I have four kids. We do schoolwork from like 8 to10 and then
we take a little break.
((Priya Agarwal, Special Education Teacher, Two
Children))
Through a lot of uncertainty at this point. We have not been
given any directions right now.
((Lisa Vohra and Alyssa Leela Gokhale, Lisa’s daughter,
Five years old))
Lisa: You can see the Z and I need you to copy that.
Alyssa: But what if I might not remember?
Lisa: But it’s right there.
Alyssa: I might not remember it.
Lisa: Alyssa Leela Gokhale. Please write your Z right now.
Right now. I’m not writing your Z. We’ll get back to you.
((Banner: A New Daily Routine))
((NATS))
((Lisa Vohra, Producer - VOA Connect, One Child))
As I’m doing this, I’m thinking, okay, I have it. And then I’m
like, oh my god, another whole block of time just empty. All
right, here’s to trying again.
((NATS))
((Lisa Vohra, Producer - VOA Connect, One Child))
I’m literally editing the piece, this piece and she’s on my
shoulder. We’re taking a dance break in the middle of
working.
((Bumper: Leaving the House))
((NATS))
((Lisa Vohra, Producer - VOA Connect, One Child))
I’m at the grocery store. It’s 6 AM.
((Banner: Before recommendations to wear masks))
((Lisa Vohra, Producer - VOA Connect, One Child))
There was a line outside when I came and it’s just, it wasn’t
like a huge line, but just having a line at 6 AM at a grocery
store, it just, it just made it even more real. It’s like empty
here.
((NATS))
((Banner: Creative Parenting))
((Anita Mago, Senior Research Consultant, One Child))
Just today, I created a scavenger hunt for her. She loved this
idea.
((NATS))
((Lisa Vohra and Alyssa Leela Gokhale, Lisa’s daughter,
Five years old))
Lisa: We’re looking for the voice, the one that goes…..ah ah
ah ah. But I was only showing. I’m not doing it. We’re
looking for that voice, right?
Alyssa: Go like this, ah ah ah ah.
((Lisa Vohra, Producer - VOA Connect, One Child))
I think one of the hardest parts about all of this is trying to stay
calm with your kid because, you know, to her we are her
center and if act all anxious and scared, then her center is
literally disrupted. But it’s hard as her center to keep calm
sometimes because we don’t really know what’s going on
and.....so we just try our best. But there are moments, there
are definitely moments.
((Banner: Staying Connected))
((NATS: Zoom family meeting))
((Lisa Vohra, Producer - VOA Connect, One Child))
We get to feel like we’re better than you guys.
((Greg Pugliese, Policy Analyst, One Child))
Some of the ways that we’re communicating with the outside
world is we’re doing more Facetime than we usually do.
((NATS))
((Alyssa and her friend))
I miss you.
I miss you too.
((Lisa Vohra, Producer - VOA Connect, One Child))
She spent like an hour with her friend on Facetime today and
I had a moment of guilt because I’m like, shouldn’t she be
doing ABC’s, 123’s? And then I’m like, but the girl’s missing
her friend.
((Alyssa Leela Gokhale, Lisa’s daughter, Five years old))
Alexa, let it go.
((Bumper: Perspective))
((Arianna Cao, Beautician, Three Kids))
We don’t realize how important things are until something
happens and we take so much things for granted everyday.
((Ekta Vohra, Registered Nurse, BSN CWON))
So, while the situation is extremely tense, I think that it's
pretty incredible to see how everyone is coming together and
banding together to work through this.
((Christine Johns, Alyssa’s Kindergarten Teacher, Colvin
Run Elementary School, Two Children))
Hi everyone. This is Mrs. Johns. I teach kindergarten. I’m
going to read a book called, “Too Pickley!” It’s for all you
picky eaters out there. Too burpy.
((Lisa Vohra, Producer - VOA Connect, One Child))
Really cool idea. Her teacher, not her teacher, the room
parent came up with, to write letters to her friends but also to
write letters to a nursing home so that they aren’t as lonely,
which I thought was just such a really, really cool concept.
So, she’s writing letters as we speak.
((Alyssa Leela Gokhale, Lisa’s daughter, Five years old))
Dear Claire,
I’m missing you. I’m sad that you could not tutor me. I want
to stay home so you do not get sick.
Love, Alyssa.
((MUSIC))
