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During quarantine Trump made some very questionable decisions and I was quite happy to find out the results of the election. After weeks of grueling waiting, it was announced that Biden  had won the 270 electoral votes he needed to win and was sworn into office late January.

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Like many, I quickly found myself bored over the last 13 months of quarantine. I took up creative ventures such as paint by numbers, diamond paintings, making jewlery and latch hooking. The new free time I found myself with was an opportunity to finish everything I left unfinished.

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When COVID was first announced to be in the United States, I thought it could never be me, it could never be my area. When Broward county got it's first cases, I still believed it could never be me or my family who got it. Around that time, many stated that it was no worse than the flu, and even if I had never had the flu, I was not worried. I still remember sitting in the auditorium, laughing with my friends at the end of immigration day, which shortly after Mrs. Conn announced to us that school would be shutting down. I remember being happy, “an extra week for spring break” I thought, “awesome.” Yet, even after that here I am, stuck at home almost 14 months after that announcement. Since then, time has been a blur and nothing feels real anymore. Sport seasons were canceled and I stopped playing soccer and only recently have been able to play lacrosse again. The pandemic made me realize that bleaching your hair more times than you can count on your hands is the greatest joy I will get anytime soon.

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Captain, my current foster dog

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My 20 gallon tank and 2 of the 3 sharks in it

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Delilah, my foster dog who was recently adopted

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I have been wanting to start a garden for many months and back in March/early April I started one. One of my dad’s clients was nice enough to give me my first seeds and care instructions. Planted are green beans (right) cucumbers (left) carrots in another box and 6 types of flowers in another.

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A year ago today, I would be starting online school around 8'oclock and finishing by 10. I would lay in my bed while doing my work and mercy was still well and alive. If I could talk to past me, I would tell her to hang on to the moment, because at the time all I wanted was to be able to leave my house. Now I sit infront of a computer for 8-10 hours a day doing nothing but school work and I find it difficult to find time to do much else, expect for the weekends, which no longer feel like weekends. Weekends seem to feel shorter and shorter as I try and get as much as I pushed off during the week due to being too tired or having no motivation, into two days. I cannot wait for summer to come and for my hair to be blonde once again. Throughout the last year, I have been blonde 5 seperate times, have dyed my hair purple, pink, purple again and blue before returning to a dark brown back in January. Through this, I started to make my 3 closest friends, which none of them live near me. One lives in Virginia, another in Colorado and the farthest away is in Australia. I wish the United States could be more like other countries so we could stop having to wear masks everywhere. It is hard to see people walking around and going to school and to stores without masks in Australia.

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I have taken to annoying my friends and having matching bitmojis or cat filter picture as entertainment (photo of me and an aussielanders current matching bitmojis)

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As confident as everyone was in the beginning that COVID would not affect them, the first COVID cases in Florida and Broward county came as a shock. Throughout summer, cases and hospitalization became worse, to the point where hospitals were running out of ICU beds.

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Although India seemed to have COVID relatively under control, a rapid spike in cases and deaths leaves the country shattered. With the most cases in the world, India runs the risk of creating a new strain of COVID that the vaccine may not be able to deter. Furthermore, the dead are unable to be buried or cremated.

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The seagulls chirping.
The virus waits outside home.
Don’t breathe, hold it.

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Although my family did not have any plans pre-COVID that got canceled, there were many things we were unable to do because of COVID. to begin, my family normally goes on annual to biannual skiing trips in the winter or early spring. Due to COIVD, we were unable to travel. Furthermore, I was unable to see my grandparents for a period of time before the vaccine. It is just recently that me and my family have been trying to get a resemblance of our lives before the pandemic, such as playing sports and going shopping in person. Due to my parents, grandparents and almost both of my brothers being fully vaccinated, O am the only one who has to worry about getting COVID or spreading COVID within my immediate family, and even then I am hoping the vaccine for my age group is released soon enough. Although, I have to say I am not excited to be receiving two shots. (I am not a fan of needles.) Such as getting back to normal life, today (May 3rd) I returned to in person school for the first time. Unfortunately, I am unsure if I will be staying, as there are a lot of people and crowds.

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Old tiktok saved, gives the same vibes as goosebumps.

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Yam

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Q: May I interview you?
A: sure

Q: How do you feel about COIVD?
A: it is a virus

Q: what do you miss the most (concerning COVID)
A: I miss friends, some family but I mean I got to see my grandparents

Q: How does it feel to be vaccinated?
A: relieved

Q: Did you feel safe during in person classes?
A: relatively

Q: Does it still feel weird to wear a mask everywhere?
A: “yeh”

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Q: May I interview you?
A: It may require a 10 minute massage

Q: How do you feel about COIVD?
A: Really annoyiny

Q: what do you miss the most (concerning COVID)
A: Do I sound like a bad mom is I say bars?

Q: How does it feel to be vaccinated?
A: partially reassuring yet somewhat worrisome that it could be false sense of security

Q: What would you tell yourself a year ago?
A: hmm... What would I tell myself a year ago? (asking me)... buckle in its going to take a long time and you might never feel the old normal again so just get used to it

Q: Does it still feel weird to wear a mask everywhere?
A: no, in actuality it feels more weird to not wear a mask to the point that i will wear a mask to places i am told i do not need, but i enjoy not getting sick for the past year.

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My dog, Bear

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My dog, Dexter

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My dog, Diamond

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My brother’s dog, Teddy (My dad calls him Theodore)

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Q: May I interview you?
A: yes

Q: How do you feel about COIVD?
A:bi don’t like it

Q: what do you miss the most (concerning COVID)
A: getting to see people in person and go to school in person

Q: How does it feel to be vaccinated?
A: relieving

Q: Does it still feel weird to wear a mask everywhere?
A: no but I have a background in bio tech so I wore masks a lot

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Q: May I interview you?
A: yeah

Q: How do you feel about COIVD?
A: I am not a fan, I think it sucks

Q: what do you miss the most (concerning COVID)
A: uhh... big groups

Q: Does it still feel weird to wear a mask everywhere?
A: surprisingly no

Q: What would you tell yourself a year ago?
A: You are going to get hotter

Q: have you ever had braces?
A: I have them right now

Q: Have you ever dyed your hair?
A: yeah I have it is dyed right now

Q: how do you feel about dinosaurs?
A: I love them, I love dinosaurs

Q: What is your favorite dinosaurs?
A: bulbasaurisrex

Q: Would you kill 10 people to save one?
A: uhhhh.. if that one was my friend. If it was 10 bad people and the one was my mom or my friend I would do what I had to do

Q: What you you do if fear wasn’t a factor and you couldn’t fail?
A:woah uhm... die once just to see what could happen, as long as you can come back

Q: opinion on sporks?
A: I like them

Q: if you could be any kind of bird what kind of bird would you be?
A: oh my gosh, I would be like uh.. I would probably be like an eagle

Q: If you were to open a business what kind of business would it be?
A: probably like a food business or like a bakery

Q: what’s your debit card information
A: um let me check and see I think it’s like (redacted)

Q: what color is math?
A: green

Q: what color is your toothbrush?
A: blue

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Catboy Noah