Our stories make history

By: Liza Liu

My picture collage and 6 word memoir

What does daily life looks like? Diary entry #1

Date Mar 19, 2020
Dear Diary,
I woke up this morning one minute before my alarm clock (literally) because of a big “BANG” noise that came from outside. Yesterday afternoon, the wind was so big, mum went outside but she came back so quickly because she’s afraid that sometime will get blown off the buildings and it’s quite dangerous. Our neighbor was repairing their house and there’s this big construction wall outside, because of the coronavirus, they stopped working. Also, because of the wind yesterday, one of the wall between the two buildings just fell out of its place, I’m glad that mum came back earlier even though the walls by the road didn’t fell but it’s way too dangerous.

      I found out this morning that there was this person on the ladder trying to take the wall off (it’s still connected to something, so it didn’t fell onto the ground. Maybe they’re going to readjust the other walls because it’s too dangerous if the walls by the road fell and hit someone.

Hope that doesn’t happen again,
Liza

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What does daily life looks like? Diary entry #2

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Date Apr 10, 2020
Dear Diary,

    I woke up really late today since there’s no e-learning. When we went outside today, we found out the fluff of the willow trees start to come out again.

     This afternoon, mum and I decided to go buy flowers for us from garden since there was a few empty spots in our big flower “pot” (it’s actually a rectangular thing planted to the ground and can hold flowers in it). Our big flower pot looks really nice already, dad bought flowers about a few weeks ago and planted there. We decided to make a small pot with flowers in it and put it by our front door since we only have the big flower “pot” in our front garden. For the small pot, we decided to put a really well-organized flower design in it so we’re also buying flowers for that.

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     When we got to the flower-selling place, there was like millions of flowers there. For some reason, there isn’t too much people outside today, there was only us and another person. I considered pink flowers and purple flowers. I picked really hard so that the colors can match each other in our added pot, it took like more than half an hour to pick out 3 flowers, there was just so much choices. When I planted them in, I never thought that they would turn out that gorgeous, after all, there’s only 3 flowers in it (the picture looks sort of bad, the colors didn’t turn out nicely when I took the picture in the afternoon).

Nice day,
Liza

What does daily life looks like? Diary entry #3

Date Apr 12, 2020
Dear Diary,
    This morning, the fluff from the willow trees started to get much more. The wind was blowing so it looks like a big snow storm, in summer.

After breakfast today, mum, aunt and I went to Shine Hills because I really miss the bubble tea from Royal Tea (a bubble tea shop). It tasted different from other places, probably because they made the bubbles differently. I think they made it by honey but I'm not sure. I haven’t had bubble tea for months, but it seems like decades. Because I drank it too fast, I feel like I’m going to explode and definitely won’t be able to eat lunch.

“You need to get some conditioner for your hair, it’s been ages since you last cut them.” Aunt kept telling me this, so we decided to go buy one. There was a supermarket beside the bubble tea shop, so we went there. Now, Beijing still needs to test your temperature before you enter certain places. After testing temperature by the security person, they let mum scan a QR code for some reason, we don’t know, mum said it’s probably something that tells them we didn’t go to Wuhan these days.

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        Afterwards, we decided to go to buy pizza from EATA and take it home to eat. I really enjoy a pizza from EATA, it’s a special recipe and it’s a bit spicy and there’s a lot of cheese on it. It was like the best pizza place in the whole world. I was so full tonight and told myself that I really can’t eat this much again.

More tomorrow,
Liza

Recording for this diary entry:

What are some emotional changes from when the coronavirus first appeared to now?

Here's my timeline and some zoom in pictures.

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