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For the past year during this corona episode I’ve been grinding on Stocks for the whole time trying to get as much profit as I can to have a successful future

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At the very beginning of the pandemic, every store was completely out of cleaning essentials that there was a limit put on wipes, toilet paper, disinfectant spray and many more as people bought excessive amounts to prepare for the unknown.

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During 2020 covid made me look at life in a different prespective, I was just getting lost, bored, lazy, and just irritated by the virus. Made me miss the family dinners and everything being together. Last year thanksgiving was not fun and just sad at the most. - Darnell Wilson

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The phone and tv was a way for me and my family to keep up with the craziness that was 2020. It was also a way to call and talk to friends and family in a time where you probably couldn’t meet.
-Josiah Amos

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Looking at events unfolding before but especially during this pandemic have caused me to no longer be content with a almost ignorant neutral stance on the topic of politics. Before I had ideals but would never share them to avoid conflict. But after massive events unfolding left and right during this pandemic for all of us and our lives. I find it hard to stand in the sidelines while their is deeply rooted hatred in our country.

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The first time I ever wore a mask like this was in 2017 when my mom first started her job as a care giver. Looking back at that moment I never thought that this pandemic would happen and that I would have to wear that type of mask everywhere I go. The mask changed a lot, not just quarantine. The pandemic kept me away from the the things I loved the most and that was sports but when we continued the mask was the biggest obstacle. Playing football with a mask on is hands down the second weirdest thing behind quarantine. -Adrian Arteaga

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Person wearing a shopping car mask while thinking about pressures of the pandemic 

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Person wearing a shopping car mask while thinking about pressures of the pandemic 

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My artifact represents probably how most people feel amid a globally pandemic. When the pandemic first started everyone was buying toilet paper. That being said shopping as we now know it has been forever changed since the pandemic. It has become a place of fear and cautiousness. During this pandemic the Clorox spray signifies our perseverance through the struggles and challenges  that this pandemic presents.
-Carolyn Soukouna

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Zoom for me was a huge part of quarantine, we used it in the beginning to communicate with family members that lived far away or out of the country.

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With no advice from a book, a website, a family member, or a friend, the society from 2020 had to learn how to cope with a quick spreading virus. Throughout this pandemic there was one thing that helped me the most and that was my brothers jeep but most importantly my brother. Evolving from a quarantine to just a pandemic was rough. After months of adjusting I wouldn’t have been where I’m at to date if it weren’t for my brother and his jeep. My brother has always been there for me like i would be for him and because of this we wouldn’t let each other fall off the bridge. My family received news that we would have to go into quarantine, but life after this was beyond imagination. With this pandemic came many things from depressing to contentment. After the pandemic died down a bit I started to go out with my brother from eating out at restaurants to eating in the house or in the far so the food wouldn’t get cold. We would drive out  for drinks, food, groceries, snacks, fun things to buy from stores like Home Depot or Michaels(etc). When there was a higher risk of getting contacted with COVID19 we stayed inside. Overall i spent the best months with my  family and more importantly my brother that i got closer with. _vg

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During quarantine I’ve had a lot of time to work and save up money to buy and build on my car. With all the time I’ve had I have been slowly adding on to my car and I drive with friends and go to car meets and do some extra fun stuff but I have spent a lot of time with my car.

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When covid-19 first started I spent most of my time at home and since I had a lot of time on my hands I started to digital draw again. This helped a lot during quarantine because I became interested in one my old hobbies and it helped pass the time. The app I used to draw during quarantine is called ibisPaint x and ever since I used it my art has improved.

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This is my keyboard(piano) it has gotten me through this pandemic with its music. Last school year at the end of the semester I was supposed to perform a piece from our favorite song for the class, but when Covid-19 hit we couldn’t be able to perform our pieces. I realized even though I couldn’t play for my classmates why not perform for my family so I bought myself a new keyboard and started playing on it every day and just playing my favorite songs it made my family happy, and making people happy during this difficult time is important, because you can’t go on a vacation or hang out with friends and family. With this pandemic the saying “keep listening to music, it gets you through everything. I promise”, is 100% true because when you’re feeling down just play your favorite song and enjoy your life as it is.

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When COVID first started restaurants started to close indoor dining. Tables started to get marked off with tape. Signs varied from reservations, or just closed off for spacing. Tables had sanitizer stations to get people to clean their hands before sitting down to order. That’s when restaurants started doing outdoor dining, which was better but people still had to wait a long time in order to get a table.

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When COVID started I got a guitar to try and learn how to play it but quickly got bored of it so I took a break from trying to learn it. I’ve recently been trying to use it more and been trying to learn different songs. I would say during COVID a lot of people tried new things to get their mind of the pandemic.

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When COVID started I picked up a quintal and tried to learn that for a bit. I got board of it pretty quick so I took and break from it but recently I’ve been typifying to teach myself some different songs.

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My articfact was my old work hat. During the pandemic I mostly just worked. But at the start of August I couldn’t handle the dumb customers so I walked out. For about 4 months I had no job. But I a still proud if walking out of that horrible place.

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During COVID I know many people stayed inside in their rooms all day binge watching shows or playing video games. It was a good way to keep yourself occupied and to enjoy yourself while being only inside and with playing video games you were able to talk to your friends more and still have a good laugh with them. Watching shows I believed in my case helped me spend more time with my family and find more common ground between us and we were able to make the most of it.

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The artifact I chose is a recording microphone. It represents the good music that’s come out since the start of the pandemic. Although good music always comes out, in this time it was needed the most. I also chose this as an artifact because I make music too. It’s a passion of mine and it helps me everyday, especially in quarantine.

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These are letters, letters that my friend Brooke & I started writing to each other at the beginning of lockdown last March. These are special to me because as you can see, our first “letter” was pre-lockdown. My best friend & I had given each other these little gifts to get ourselves through spring break until we could see each other again, little did we know we wouldn’t return back to school. Till this day, even though I have moved states, Brooke and I continue to write letters to each other to keep in touch. -Criselly Maya

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In the very beginning of the pandemic, before we even knew much about this deadly virus, the grocery stores were packed. The lines literally were so long and everybody was acting crazy about canned foods, meat, grains, and weird enough, toliet paper. I actually worked at Jewel Osco so I got to experience it all first hand. This picture is of me after my shift that I worked overtime because they were so desperate for help. My mom had called me to get toliet paper before the store was completely out so that is this picture. I had sent it to my mom as I was leaving the store.

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This is a baseball. This artifact/object is something that truly means a lot to me. I’ve made big strides in my development during the pandemic in the game of baseball and this is something that has kept me sane throughout the course of the pandemic. Apart from that I was fortunate enough to have a season and I’ve learned to never take anything for granted, because life as you know it, can end in an instant.

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I remember that we all thought this would be over in just a couple of weeks. We didn’t think that life would be how it is right now. In the beginning it was fine because we had nothing to worry about like homework and projects. Even when we start to do online school I was still organized and still motivated. The high of this is we had more time to spend we family. The low is its hard to stay motivated and stay on track. This drawing represents how we weren’t ready for what was coming. Also how we had to prepare for the worst.

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When the Covid-19 virus began, we wanted to prevent getting sick. So many people went out and cleared stores of their disinfectant supplies. Using hand sanitizer to clean hands & Lysol to clean your homes, phones, anything you touch really to stop the spread of the virus. People went crazy buying these necessities that stores had to put limits on the number of items a person could buy because everything was being sold out so fast that other families didn’t have anything left to purchase. The beginning of the pandemic really showed how greedy people are.

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I remember going to the store to prepare for the ‘two week’ quarantine. The stores were crowded and many people were freaking out. There was a shortage in eggs and water bottles were sold out everywhere, so it was difficult to get any. Looking back hurts considering this was the beginning of a huge change in our lives that will affect us forever.

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By fadwa Odeh

I remember when school first shut down due to the corona it was constant isolation after that. It was a nationwide lock down and during those times it was all so frustrating because it was always limited to where you could go. This picture I Drew will always make me remember how I learned to draw. I first started drawing  when the lockdown first started. Being constantly  isolated made me so frustrated to exert some of that frustration i bought a sketchpad and started drawing and it helped a little bit. So now when I always look back at my drawings I will always remember how I first started to draw when the pandemic started. So if I were to choose an artifact to place in a museum for the people in the future,  I would choose this drawing, is was my very first drawing when I learn to draw starting when the lockdown started.

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This is a picture of my KJV study Bible. For many, the pandemic has been nothing but problem after problem. It was easy for everyone to view everything negatively. For me, however, I believe that this pandemic was a blessing in disguise. During the summer of 2020, I started to take my faith in Jesus more seriously and began to yearn for an intimate relationship with God. If it wasn’t for this pandemic, I wouldn’t know what it really means to be a Christian and how much of an influence God has had in my life.

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When everything had started and everything was closed. I was always inside trying to find something to do. So I picked up on trying to draw. My first drawing wasn’t so bad.

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When the pandemic started, a good way to waste some time was to play games. I started playing a lot more due to quarantine and enjoyed playing with friends.

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I picked up a lot of hobby’s over quarantine because I had so much time on my hands and during that time lots of new shows were coming out on Netflix. I binged the show “The Walking Dead”. I also worked out a lot and ran outside but Netflix was a big thing for me over quarantine

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I rode my bike everyday for 3 months straight to keep myself busy and somewhat normal I like to exercise and move around constantly so this helped me big time.

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I have this notability page on my sister’s iPad that consists of a bunch of my doodles. Honestly this just shows how much time has passed while we were all stuck in home... 👊😔

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Gaming with friends during quarantine helped with the boredom of having to stay in the house. Before the pandemic I didn’t play the game as much as I did now.

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The following image is a painting I began working on during the COVID-19  pandemic. It features a favorite Pokémon character of mine, as well as the D.S/Game the character is from.  You may notice, however, that the painting is unfinished. See, I chose this artifact because it represents two things that have happened to me during this past year while in quarantine. The first thing is that I decided to take up painting at the start of quarantine as a new hobby, as I already was and am interested in making art. This painting is one of the few paintings that I started working on throughout the year. Now, the second thing that has happened to me is the loss of energy and motivation to do lots of things. Quarantine has impacted my mental health and in turn affected my motivation to complete various tasks in a negative way. This is why my painting remains unfinished. Because of having to be isolated from friends and extended family, and my only job being school work, I have severely struggled with motivation for not just painting but lots of things in general. But as things begin to open back up and schools are allowing more students to return, hopefully I’ll have the motivation to finish this painting someday. -Bre Buttney

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Last year when lockdown began, businesses had to be shut down and people lost their jobs when businesses were closing. People losing their jobs and having a family, had struggled and didn’t have enough money. The stimulus check helped a lot of families through this virus.

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Last year was the best I got to stay with my grandma we would stay up till late . 2 days later  me and my family left to Wisconsin Dells that day I remember I called my grandma she seemed good she didn’t tell us she was sick or nothing , we lasted 3 days in WD when we got back to Chicago my mom went to my grandmas house she was very sick and she had a week like that she didn’t eat didn’t walk my mom FaceTimed me so I could talk to my grandma she didn’t recognize me that day we took her to the hospital apparently she had Covid-19 and there was 10% for her to survive . She survived 3 Heart attacks but at 6:00 we lost her due to covid. This ruined everything now we have to be home on our iPads.

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When the Pandemic hit a lot of people needed their temperature taken. They didn’t want people having to put a thermometer in their mouth because that is unsanitary and unsafe especially with the new virus. Instead people used a digital one where you were able to take someone’s temperature without touching them. It is more safe than using one that goes into other peoples mouth.

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The app TikTok was around a couple years before the pandemic hit. Though as way to keep up with friends and even some celebrities, many people downloaded the app to stay connected. It was also a cure for boredom for people who couldn’t really do anything else during quarantine.

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My picture represents how 2020 went up into flames literally they were burning city’s downs during protest and it went up into flames because people became furious and 2020 basically destroyed everything. The face mask is there because that is everyone’s image now you don’t really see much without the face mask they’re everywhere you go but before 2020 it’s was really only people who work in the medical field and field that involves toxic chemicals so you have to wear a mask now you can’t go no where without seeing one. The pause button is there because life was going great everything going smooth no problem’s then Covid hit it paused our lives right away it was March 14 only 3 month’s into the new year 1st school is canceled for everyone then everything started to get canceled as time progressed faster and faster then they closed all restaurants and you could not dine in, paused all sports that were going on, closed all interactive places such as movie theaters, the gym, etc and this did not go well with people

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My picture represents how 2020 went up into flames literally they were burning city’s downs during protest and it went up into flames because people became furious and 2020 basically destroyed everything. The face mask is there because that is everyone’s image now you don’t really see much without the face mask they’re everywhere you go but before 2020 it’s was really only people who work in the medical field and field that involves toxic chemicals so you have to wear a mask now you can’t go no where without seeing one. The pause button is there because life was going great everything going smooth no problem’s then Covid hit it paused our lives right away it was March 14 only 3 month’s into the new year 1st school is canceled for everyone then everything started to get canceled as time progressed faster and faster then they closed all restaurants and you could not dine in, paused all sports that were going on, closed all interactive places such as movie theaters, the gym, etc and this did not go well with people

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When quarantine first started everyone was playing PlayStation and it was fun. Everyday there would be a lot of people on playing with each other since there wasn’t much to do. Since school was canceled for like 3 weeks, we didn’t have to worry about anything except playing with our friends. Those were days that changed our lives but days I’ll never forget.

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The artifact of a smile might be the most important one of the year. And what a year it was. Right before covid was in the news, my dad and I went to muscle car and corvette nationals in Chicago. Doing something we love. We went there in November. I was still in school, everyone’s lives were normal. The creation of covid wiped everyone smiles clean, news of a “pandemic” surfaced through the cracks of our society. All we could do was pray, pray that we don’t catch this new disease and be branded with a death sentence. The calm before the storm, we had a good run, we got far, but never split the sky. We fell short of the finish line. Or maybe we didn’t, we’re all still living, fighting till we go down. And we won’t go down without a fight! Bring it on. After the dust settles, after all is said and done, after the dystopian sun sets, we’ll ride into the sunrise of a new day. Picking up where we left off. And seeing, yet again, how far we can go. -Ryan Wierzgac

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My artifact is toilet paper. At the beginning of COVID there was a massive panic and people rushed to stores to grab all they could find. It was so bad that at certain points there would be no toilet paper on the shelves and stores started limiting the amount you could purchase.

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During the pandemic I wasn’t able to see my grandparents during the holidays. It was hard knowing they were at home by themselves when we should’ve been together. Yet it was something they had to do to stay safe. It was something I never thought would happen because there wasn’t a holiday that we didn’t all spend together. This is a card they sent my brother and I for Thanksgiving telling us that we need to stay apart for the holidays last year, so hopefully we can spend them together this upcoming year.

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I chose exercise or working out because when the pandemic hit and quarantine was happening I had nothing to do and had a lot of time on my ha do, so I began working out and starting to run outside. It was a big part of my quarantine and I would life as well. (I have a bench at my house I just used oak lawns as a reference)

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For Mother’s Day in 2020, my family wanted to still celebrate together, however we didn’t know the extent of the virus and how to go about it. We already skipped Easter with extended family, but we didn’t want my grandmother to be alone on Mother’s Day. The best option we came up with was setting up two tables six feet apart from one another and having my family sit at one table, while my cousins’ family sat at another. One of my cousins also was not feeling too well so he decided to stay at home. I came up with the idea to face time him so he would feel included. It was crazy to think how I wasn’t allowed to hug my own family members after so many years of being together. In a way it felt like we were strangers eating in a lunch room at two separate tables. At the time we felt as if this may be the new normal. The whole experience felt surreal and it is nice to know that things are getting better and I’m able to once again have sleepovers and spend time with my cousins like the pandemic never even happened.

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I chose the tennis racquet as my artifact for the pandemic because it was a thing I was look forward to the entirety of 2019 and 2020. I was hoping for the spring sport season to start, then the pandemic happened and the school closed and we didn’t even go against one school or put are skills to the test. The picture represents a loss of opportunity or a seal in fate as the tennis racquet is being put in the bag.

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During the pandemic, I would say that Xbox one or consoles in general is an artifact, the reason why it would be one is because it made people enjoy something other than working out or watching to, video games also made people get un bored and somewhat encouraged them to stay home and not go out to stay safe. It was also a way of relaxation .

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During the COVID 19 the PlayStation 4 was really popular to get people through quarantine because you can play video games with friends whistled both being at home. It was still a fun way to talk to friends without seeing them. The games got people through COVID also because they were fun and interesting games when your bored.

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My artifact for the pandemic would be my baseball hat that I didn’t even get to wear last year because there wasn’t a season, along with all of the other sports during 2020. Even the professional baseball players had their season delayed a few months. It took a toll on the team and was a major setback. It’s pretty sad that the seniors had their last game on the OL field the year before, when they didn’t even know it. It teaches people to not take anything for granite because you never know when something can be taken away you, and in this case was the spring sports.

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My artifact for the pandemic is our beds. During the course of the pandemic we have spent so much time at home lying around all day. Especially when COVID first started and everything was closed we didn’t have much of a choice but to watch movies or shows all day. And when we were at home for school we could just lay in bed the whole time.

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My artifact for the Covid 19 pandemic is a Nintendo switch because they gained a lot of popularity during quarantine and they were sold out for months. Many people used Nintendo switches to escape from the uncertain reality Covid created and just relax by simply  playing games. If it weren’t  for this pandemic many people wouldn’t have gotten switches.The games for them have the ability to pass time very easily and quickly which was important in the beginning of the pandemic because we couldn’t really go out and do much. This would represent wasted time during the 2020 pandemic as well as relaxation.

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I remember going to the store with my mom to buy toilet paper since we were running low and the news of the shortage were spreading. The shelves were completely empty and we couldn’t find one package of toilet paper at any store we went too. Everybody was panicking and afraid of the shortage, people were ruthless at stores and fighting over items like animals. Society changed in the matter of a few days and people began turning against each other while they should have been supporting and helping each other during such hard times.

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My artifact is a bell to symbolize the national emergency Trump declared  and how the country was on high alert because of covid. It also symbolizes how sudden everything happened, as if we were being timed. Everyone was confused and was unsure of what would come next.

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My artifact is the check that gave stimulus. A lot of people needed it even though it really wasn’t that much if were being honest but it helped a lot of people who were in desperate times. Hopefully we never need to get stimulus checks again because it’s not good for thy economy. It goes to show the true struggles of a economy shutting down.

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My artifact is a drawing of a Zoom Call. Zoom calls became a big thing after the pandemic started. We started using this app called Zoom because it gave us a way to interact with friends and family when we physically could not see them. We also used Zoom and other video call apps for school.

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My artifact is toilet paper. This can relate to the beginning of the pandemic, this object was a necessity to every household. Every one in the beginning of the pandemic was kinda panicking, everybody went to the store and took everything including toilet paper. If you went to the shelves of any grocery store looking for toilet paper there was nothing.

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My artifact is a Lysol can. This really relates to the pandemic because everyone wanted Lysol in the beginning and throughout the pandemic. Everyone was so afraid of germs and wanted to disinfect/sanitize everything. I work in a grocery store and every time word got out that we were restocking in Lysol those would be the busiest days and people would try buying boxes of them, so we had to limit it to like 1 or 2 cans per customer.

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My artifact is my fishing poles. This can relate to the pandemic because when you fish you are in a sense close to people but also far apart from them which was great for something to do with friends while social distancing. Also during the pandemic I did a lot of fishing to pass the time.

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Last year are season for baseball was about to start, literally our first game was Monday a couple days before COVID happened, we were hyped about our first game and then COVID happened and didn’t have a season at all, we were all so bummed, working hard for days and then are seasons canceled. But know our season is toward the end of school but we have to keep our mask on and it just doesn’t feel like baseball no more. I miss feeling that wind on my face on a warm day playing baseball. But COVID has to ruin it all.