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Zooks Does 5 Quarantine Challenges in Estonia.

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Tere!

I know it’s still trendy but in Estonia the national quarantine period was over in the mid of May.

I thought:





I can’t go anywhere, which does not mean I cannot do anything!



Then I decided to implement some #quarantinechallenge . Mainly there are five things that I have done, but I didn’t intend to do five things. Coincidently I’d got five challenges.

A few of the challenges may be useful for you so perhaps it’s not senseless to read this article.

Table of Contents
1) Exercise x Pokemon GO
 2) Hobby x Skillshare
 3) Instagram x Trip
 4) Skype x Party
 5) Learning x Work

1) Exercise x Pokemon GO

To begin with, this is about Pokemon GO and some exercise. You may have noticed that the quarantine situation is unhealthy, but the thing is that in many counties it was allowed to take a walk. I started taking a walk a daily exercise.

A couple days later, I reinstalled the Pokemon GO app which I immediately uninstalled when it was released a few years ago. My challenge was basically: how many pokemons I could get during this quarantine.

I started this challenge on the 26th of March and finished on the 17th of May.

Here are several fundamental information.

Buddy: Ivysaur

Level: 24
Distance walked: 102.3km (according to the Japanese one)
Pokemon caught: 1,028
PokeStops visited: 503
Pokemon seen: 275
Pokemon caught for the Pokedex: 243
Gym badges: 6

The results about the battles are below.

By the way, you may wonder why I had a Russian-like name for the account. It’s an abbreviation of 

Anti CORONA Virus.

It’s trendy and matched with the purpose, isn’t it?


2) Hobby x Skillshare

The next one is Skillshare. The reason why I used this web service is because my friends — Masho — had a presentation video taken by Skillshare and shared it on her Facebook.

When going from the link that Masho shared on Facebook, it said that I could get two-free months on Skillshare. Therefore I registered and watched five videos including hers.

The genres that Skillshare has had vary from the hobby-level topic to the professional one and not only about art. The lectures are basically in English, and yet if the speaker’s mother tongue is not English, they sometimes have the scripts in their languages. 

During the quarantine, I watched: 

(I might write about my opinions on the details of those videos.)

The videos that I watched during this quarantine are all related to art (rather illustration?). This is because I wanted to enhance my skill while I couldn’t go anywhere. I told you in the beginning — “I can’t go anywhere, but it doesn’t mean I cannot do anything” –.

If you are interested in learning something on Skillshare, you also will get two-free months from here.

(If I remember correctly, you may need to register your bank card information, but given that you stop the subscription before the two months ends, they wouldn’t charge you. However, I remember that it was kind of complicated, so I recommend you to schedule it on your own planner like Google Calendar.)


3) Instagram x Trip

This is, technically speaking, not anything that I did during the quarantine but something that gave me a few ideas so I share this.

I have two purposes on my Instagram:

1. Let the audience enjoy the pictures of what I saw, which are retouched as precisely as possible and;

2. Let them enjoy 9 coloured and maximised pictures that make a national flag of the visited countries on my instagram profile page.

Some of you might remember that I was supposed to travel in March, but COVID-19 forced me to postpone it. For this reason, I decided to post older pictures of two countries as the instagram trips. On these trips I “went” to Latvia and Ireland.

I posted pictures on Instagram randomly while you may see the Estonian flag version at some point already. If you are looking forward to seeing different flag versions, just try to keep being updated with my travel plans 🙂


4) Skype x Party

In Japan, Zoom party was slightly buzzed. You might not use Skype anymore, and yet you should have an account because Skype is still useful and in a sense necessary in business. Also Skype was initially developed here in Estonia!

My friends and I had an online party, and we knew that we could use facebook for a real talk, but we chose Skype. We did the online party twice in total.

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Moreover, I personally achieved one goal that was to drink Corona beer during the quarantine. I know it’s stupid but I enjoyed myself. Otherwise, I just opened a bottle of Jameson and drank it half by myself.

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5) Learning x Work

This is also nothing particularly done during this quarantine, and yet I literally felt that it was very important. 

You may know that social media is usually casual, but you may not have any idea about Twitter in Japan. A number of business people have accounts and are quite active, posting useful information. In my opinion, those who are sales people, marketers or designers are main users, though probably because I follow such types of people more than other types.

On Twitter second by second you can get helpful information. It may be owned media such as company blogs or may be the third platform to share information like note. 

I always bookmarked interesting tweets and even after reading the posts, if I felt it interesting and useful, I sent the tweet links to Slack or Discord (as references).

In business I believe that the developing ability is one of the most important essences. If you just follow what written there with your eyes, you cannot gain it as your own knowledge. The more you consider how to adjust the idea to your business, the more you will grow up. (At least I believe such)

That’s all what I did during the quarantine. How was it? Is there anything interesting or that you may want to try in the near future?

Leave the comments and make me happy!

Aitäh! 🙂

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