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Collected Item: “quarantined life”

Give your story a title.

quarantined life

What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?

TikTok video

Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.

Just like the majority of students out there, I did not like school, it was stressful, there was homework, tests, grades and etc. School wasn't something I looked forward to, now that doesn't mean that all of my experience at school was bad, because it wasn't, there were good moments. I never really thought of school as a privilege, it was just something I had to go to everyday. It was my daily routine, so once school was canceled due to the Coronavirus, everything changed. I went from waking up everyday at 7 am to staying home all day. It was a crazy change, I never knew how much school impacted my day, keeping me occupied with school activities or just simply interacting with other people. Now with school being cancelled, not only is learning the material given by teachers much harder, something that kept me occupied for 7 hours out of my day is now gone.

Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?

student, high school, homelife, school, cancel, bored

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

Amanda Sebastian

Give this story a date.

2020-05-31
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