Collected Item: “Adopt-A-Senior”
Give your story a title.
Adopt-A-Senior
What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?
I took this photograph.
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.
When my senior year was cut short by the pandemic, the local community rallied together to “adopt” seniors. A Facebook page was created where parents of seniors would post short bios of their children and other people would “adopt” the teens and get them graduation gifts. My adoptee was a faculty member who I was close with. They gathered letters from all of my favorite teachers from grades K-12, which are pictured above. The letters were heartwarming and helped me find closure in the fact that I may never be able to properly say goodbye to the people who molded me into who I am today.
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?
#senior, #classof2020, #shs, #community
Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)
Christal Toussaint
Give this story a date.
2020-05-14