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Birthdays During Covid19

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Title (Dublin Core)

Birthdays During Covid19

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Description (Dublin Core)

When the stay at home order was first put in place back in March many events, gatherings, and plans had to be cancelled. One special day that many people didn’t want to go unnoticed were birthdays. My friends and I saw multiple stories and videos of people doing drive by birthdays in order to celebrate the special day of their friends and family. One of my best friend's birthday was in April. Before we went on lockdown we were planning on doing a surprise birthday party at his house. Unfortunately this was cancelled because of the lockdown. I’m sure you can imagine the disappointment that we all felt because we couldn’t celebrate with our friends. We decided to do a birthday drive by. All of our friends gathered at the park around the corner from his house in our cars in order to drive by. I looked around as I sat there. This was our new normal that we were going to have to accept. I saw a row of cars behind mine waiting to wish our friend happy birthday through our car windows. I heard all my friends yelling from car to car in order to talk to each other. We drove by his house multiple times and eventually stopped in front to talk to him individually and do the best we could to give him a good day. Instead of swimming in his backyard and eating pizza together, we sat out front yelling and honking. We realized things had changed but thankfully we were able to make the best of the situation were in.

Date (Dublin Core)

April 8, 2020

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

AmericanStudies

Partner (Dublin Core)

California High School
San Ramon Valley Unified School District

Type (Dublin Core)

Personal Memory

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Education--K12
English Cities & Suburbs
English Social Distance
English Recreation & Leisure
English Neighborhoods

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

party
#beforethewave
birthday
teenagers
friends
pizza
cars

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

California High School
American Studies
San Francisco Bay Area
sensory history
San Ramon Valley Unified School District
birthday
personal memory

Collection (Dublin Core)

K-12
San Francisco Bay Area
COVID Birthdays

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

Sensory History & COVID-19, Lesson Plan

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

10/27/2020

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

10/29/2020
07/08/2021
10/19/2021
10/16/2023
11/12/2023

Date Created (Dublin Core)

04/08/2020

Item sets

Covid 19
High School

This item was submitted on October 27, 2020 by [anonymous user] using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://www.covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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