Item

Fish Out of Water

Title (Dublin Core)

Fish Out of Water

Disclaimer (Dublin Core)

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Description (Dublin Core)

Since March 2020, my life has taken a complete turn. For my past high school years, I’ve constantly been in the pool playing water polo or swimming. In an odd way, I have built a connection with the water. It’s become a part of my day, a part of my life, and I took it for granted. I thought I would get to feel the adrenaline and the nervous wreak on game days when our season came, but it never did. As someone who was always in the water and active throughout the week, it was a change of scenery when we had to stay home because of the severity of the pandemic in California. Not being able to play my sports represents my high school experience as a junior because everything feels out of place. Most of my days used to revolve around practices and games, and not being able to attend these felt strange. This might be a minor inconvenience, but this little change threw me off guard. I had to find other ways to adapt to the situation and learn how to organize my days so that they could resemble one similar to before everything happened. I’m sure there are also many others who feel very unmotivated during this time of unrest. I, too, fell into a hole where I lost motivation because there was nothing to look forward to and I feared that things would never go back to normal, but I eventually adapted to this new reality because I realized that I could not predict the future. In a way, the lockdown was an opportunity for me to improve myself and take on new hobbies I have always been interested in. I started to cook more and even tried baking!

Date (Dublin Core)

January 22, 2021

Creator (Dublin Core)

Emily Nguyen

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Emily Nguyen

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

APUSH

Partner (Dublin Core)

Garden Grove High School

Type (Dublin Core)

photograph
text

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Education--K12
English Emotion
English Sports
English Recreation & Leisure
English Social Distance

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

swimming
baking
hope
motivation
California
change

Collection (Dublin Core)

English K-12
English Lost Seasons

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

01/23/2021

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

02/12/2021
02/23/2021

Date Created (Dublin Core)

01/22/2021

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This item was submitted on January 23, 2021 by Emily Nguyen using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: http://covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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