Ready, Steady, Connect
THE STORIES OF PEOPLE FINDING WAYS TO CONNECT DURING QUARANTINE
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By Coral CwmCwlamare and Harvest Ryan
hough we all lived through it, the past year
can be tough to describe. âtâs really surreal,â junior Charlotte Lawley said âItâs just, itâs hard to find the way of things again because I almost forgot how to be a person.â One of the things that the 2020 pandemic highlighted was the distance between people and how hard maintaining relationships can be. With schools fully reopening, students have had a chance to reconnect
with each other. However, during the lockdown, students had many more opportunities to connect with their families. Socializing during quarantine and when schools reopened are very different, but have similarities and stories of their own. From families finding new things to bond over to overcoming odds to spend time together, quarantine has created new stories.
What was it like trying to stay connected with people?
âNot many people were allowed to, go outside or hang out, and especially me, but around the second half of quarantine, I started talking with a few people... Having so much free time, we wanted to express ourselves musically and use it as kind of a coping mechanism to, you know, the troubled times that we were living in.â - Senior Billy France-Bagwell
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