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Collected Item: “Life of a Homeshcooler”

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Life of a Homeshcooler

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text story

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.

- In times of covid I am not as social in person but have switched my social online with friends playing games and D&D through, discord, zoom and text.
-Before covid I had a schedule of when I went to classes, co-ops and saw my friends. Social is now more erratic because everyone is home and schedules are so varied. This makes it hard to talk to friends. So now I have to adapt more to others schedules in order to spend time online with friends.
-Because of the way we socialize I spend more time than normal online.
-My homeschool life however has not changed that much, probably do more academics than before. I have been taking multiple online class over the years so when covid happened things didn’t change that much for me academically.
-Another positive is that my personal library has expanded because getting to the library and picking out books is limited since they aren’t open and only allow curbside pick up.
-Got more chickens, since we are home all the time.
-Since I don’t leave the house very often, I have been able to get more schoolwork done.
-Since I am home more, I have more time for hobbies and have taken up learning blacksmithing.

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?

#social, #homeschool, #friends, #library,#chickens, #hobbies, #blacksmithing

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

Damon

Give this story a date.

2020-10-12
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