Collected Item: “Aslak's Competitive Weightlifting”
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Aslak's Competitive Weightlifting
What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?
photograph
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My friend Aslak, from Norway, has always stayed in shape. It wasn't until the pandemic hit that he started to do it competitively. Weightlifting competitively gave him a new edge and something to bring focus into his life. While this isn't exactly a new hobby, it is a new form of one of his favorite hobbies and has allowed him to meet new people (while staying at a safe distance). During this pandemic, people all around the world have had to find new ways to adjust, to cope. While Aslak is all the way over in Norway, his life right now is not too different from mine. While Finland was able to handle the pandemic differently than the United States, they also had to quarantine and wear masks. The pandemic has become divisive, but it also has untied us in ways that we haven't been before. Everyone has had to adjust and some have done so through new hobbies, like Aslak.
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#coveryourfangs, Covid-19, competitive weightlifting, HS3390, hobbies, quarantine hobbies
Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)
Aslak Glad
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2020-09-18