Item

Silence in the Morning

Title (Dublin Core)

Silence in the Morning

Disclaimer (Dublin Core)

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Description (Dublin Core)

At the beginning of the pandemic, I was working at a hotel on a US Military base in Stuttgart Germany where I typically worked the overnight shift. As such, my commute home in the mornings was usually the noisiest part of my day. I would often pass by the local bakery on my way home, one of the busiest places in town in the morning. I would hear the sounds of the shuffling of feet of the people in line, the clink of coins on the counter, the crinkle of paper bags filled with the daily bread the Germans would buy or the pastries they would eat for lunch, and the whine of the coffee machine for their morning coffee. In the background was the constant droning of the morning rush hour traffic. After the lockdown, when the German government shut down businesses, I had to continue working as the military converted the hotel I worked at into a quarantine facility. I continued with my overnight shifts and my commute home in the mornings while everyone else stayed home. What struck me the most about my new commute home was the silence. The utter lack of noise was practically oppressive. I could close my eyes and the only difference with the dead of night was the warmth of the sun beating on my skin. What was once the noisiest part of my day was now the quietest.

Date (Dublin Core)

May 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

Zachary Rady

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Zachary Rady

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HST643

Partner (Dublin Core)

Arizona State University

Type (Dublin Core)

text story

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Business & Industry
English Food & Drink
English Health & Wellness
English Environment & Landscape
English Social Class
English Public Space

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

Germany
Stuttgart
bakery
bread
pastry
military hotel
hotel
quarantine
working through covid 19
social space

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

sensory history
silence
morning routine
rush hour

Collection (Dublin Core)

Service Industry
Working Students

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

Sensory history submissions and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

02/04/2022

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

03/18/2022
03/25/2022
05/05/2022
06/09/2022

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Covid 19

This item was submitted on February 4, 2022 by Zachary Rady 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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