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Collected Item: “Going the Social Distance”

Give your story a title.

Going the Social Distance

What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?

text story and 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.

Over the course of about a week and a half I share my thoughts and feelings about the restrictions and rules we had while being placed on a modified quarantine. I discuss how it was to survive in the heat of summer, play volleyball, go to classes, and many other things while being masked up all the time. I tell readers about the testing I had to do so that everyone should know that I was negative for covid even. My story shows the different stages I've gone through throughout this modified quarantine. The stages being homesick to becoming comfortable embracing this experience of a lifetime. It is important to me because I'm using my real feelings and letting the readers know how I truly felt during the experience.

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?

#PhillipsAcademyAndover, #andoversummer, #quarantine

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

Xa'Vier Storey, Phillips Academy Andover

Give this story a date.

2021-07-10
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