Hastings, Nebraska, USA: Where I live, in Hastings, Nebraska, the current guidelines from our health department are that everyone needs to practice social distancing in any public place. My church just opened up this past weekend for our first in-person service, but many other businesses are still closed. However, my city and state seem toContinue reading “🇺🇸 A View from the Heartland”
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🇺🇸 The View from Florida
Tampa, Florida, USA: Ever since the beginning of March, covid has changed my plans. The first thing that got canceled was a trip to Seattle in Spring Break. All of the college tours I was supposed to do during spring break and after got canceled. Soon, stores closed. My summer cruise to Europe got canceled.Continue reading “🇺🇸 The View from Florida”
🇺🇸 Lessons from the Coronavirus in Hawaii
Honolulu, Hawaii, USA: It was early march when the Punahou teachers told us that we might be finishing the year with online courses. I knew that at some point in my life, I would possibly take one class online. Never had I thought, however, that I’d be spending half a semester going to class fiveContinue reading “🇺🇸 Lessons from the Coronavirus in Hawaii”
🇺🇸 Beginning to Reopen in Texas
Fort Worth, Texas: The hardest part about Covid-19 has been keeping up with my online classes, assignments and tests are taken online with due dates but there isn’t anyone reminding you about those assignments unless you check into your school email or reminders. Here in Texas it isn’t really that strict as it is inContinue reading “🇺🇸 Beginning to Reopen in Texas”
🇺🇸 Pennsylvania Perspective
Pennsylvania, USA: At first, I was excited to have 2 weeks off of school. Eventually, as the quarantine was extended and the infection rate went up, that wore off. The hardest part for me has been being separated from parts of my family. I also enjoyed going to public places and food shopping. Currently, allContinue reading “🇺🇸 Pennsylvania Perspective”
🇺🇸 Life in the Epicenter
New York City, New York, USA: I live in New York City, the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic. From one day to the next, everything changed. In a city where streets are lively during a blizzard, stores closed, schools shut down, buses and trains now run intermittently, and the streets became barren. The city thatContinue reading “🇺🇸 Life in the Epicenter”
🇺🇸 Cracking Down in California
Since the beginning of the sheltering in place, I’ve been going out every day (being careful to stay far away from others). At the beginning, I took walks or went on runs, but lately I’ve been playing basketball with my sister. But Stanford has also been cracking down; they actually closed the popular walking pathContinue reading “🇺🇸 Cracking Down in California”
🇺🇸 California Shelter in Place Update
Santa Clara County, California, USA: Yesterday, my county extended the shelter in place order from ending April 7th to ending May 3rd (my school is set to restart on the 4th). So much for my birthday (mid-April). But, honestly, we’re most likely going to be here for much longer after that. My school’s admin isContinue reading “🇺🇸 California Shelter in Place Update”
🇺🇸 The View from Silicon Valley
Santa Clara County, California, USA: My area had some of the first coronavirus cases in the US. On Thursday, March 12, about 10 minutes before school ended, we got the announcement that school was cancelled indefinitely. My school wasn’t the first – in fact, it was almost the last in the area. The rest ofContinue reading “🇺🇸 The View from Silicon Valley”