During this pandemic, I have been limited in the activities I can do. I have seen friends less frequently in person because now people cannot go indoors without risking someone else’s or their health. While it has been hard to find things to do, I have found some new activities that I greatly enjoy. The first of these activities is playing strategic board games with my dad on a platform called Board Game Arena. I play these games with my dad one on one and every week, I have a game night with my father and some of his friends. I also play these games online on Zoom with my friends. There are hundreds of games to choose from and I have a great time playing them.
Another really fun activity I have done with my friends is a movie night. A few months after the start of the pandemic, my parents bought a projector off of Amazon. We had planned to use it with an inflatable screen that we had borrowed, but it didn’t work out. Instead of using the inflatable screen, we used a white wall on the back of our house. We tested the projector out and it worked. Later, we invited some friends over for an outdoor movie night. We would put chairs more than six feet apart and we bought some popcorn to make for the movies. It was a very fun activity, and I got to see my friends while doing it. I had a great time and it was a pretty easy setup.
I have still played games off of devices during the pandemic too. I have played the usual games like Monopoly and Jenga, but something new I have started doing during this pandemic is playing speed Scrabble with my dad. The way this works is we play Scrabble, and you only have one minute to make a word. It has been really fun and we’ve had a good time. We’ve also played another fun word game called Bananagrams. This game is pretty short, lasting about 5-10 minutes in which you have tiles with letters on them, and you have to make words with the letters that connect together like the words in a crossword puzzle.
While other activities have still been limited in this pandemic, there are still many fun games and activities that you can do. There are still many options and you can have a great time playing some of these activities. Hopefully, soon, our activities will not be limited and we will be able to do what we could do before the pandemic.