Item
The Story That I Knew Was Coming
Title (Dublin Core)
The Story That I Knew Was Coming
Disclaimer (Dublin Core)
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Description (Dublin Core)
To the February 2020 me, it was a normal day in my life. I woke up at 7 o'clock to get ready for school that started at 8 o'clock. My mom was reading something on her phone when I got downstairs to eat breakfast. She told me of this new virus that was going around in China. My heart started to drop. I had my family over there and most of them are my grandparents whose health isn't exactly in the best condition. I was worried about them, not think for a second how it could spread to the US. I got into the car with my sister who sends me to school. She got her podcast ready, the BBC World News Podcast. It was normal for her to play it in the morning when she gets ready for work. I listened along, not really focusing on what they were saying. But this podcast was a bit different than before. It talked about how there was a new outbreak of an unknown virus in Wuhan, China. I started to feel worried again. Whenever my mom told me something, I would think about it and then later forget about it. But this story was now on the BBC World News podcast which means that something is going to happen. I knew that my family lived away from Wuhan so I thought that it would be safe. I listened to the end of that story, thinking about it until I reached school. I walked up the stairs and never really thought about it again until a few weeks later. My family in China said that they had to stay inside their house and could not leave unless they needed groceries. To me, this meant that it was getting serious. But this was not the worst news I heard that week. The worst is that there is someone in the US that has the virus. I knew then that things are starting to be extremely different than before and I was not far from being right.
Date (Dublin Core)
December 10, 2020
Creator (Dublin Core)
Sunny Wang
Contributor (Dublin Core)
Sunny Wang
Partner (Dublin Core)
Oaks Christian Middle School
Type (Dublin Core)
text story
Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)
English
Education--K12
English
Emotion
English
Home & Family Life
Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)
BBC World News Podcast
China
grandparent
sister
fear
Collection (Dublin Core)
K-12
Asian & Pacific Islander Voices
Linked Data (Dublin Core)
Date Submitted (Dublin Core)
12/10/2020
Date Modified (Dublin Core)
02/28/2021
03/07/2021
03/23/2021
Date Created (Dublin Core)
12/10/2020
This item was submitted on December 10, 2020 by Sunny Wang using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive
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