Our Stories Make History

1 New year snacks (7) 1/24
I had fun eating all the delicious new year’s snacks. This is the only time that I can eat so much junk food at the same time period. I loved the ‘yam chips’, they were like potato chips with tomato flavor, but made out of yam.

2 Have to stay home (3) feeling tired, bored 1/27
After school was delayed, I realized how I was going to be at home for quite a while, and it would be kind of boring and tiring as well.

3 New year special TV (9-10) also excited 1/24
Every new year this is the best thing that you can imagine, where you can stay up until midnight and watch TV the whole night. The show was always fun and exciting.

4 Visiting Grandma (10) excited 1/26
One of my favorite things to do, visit my grandma. It’s only a 1hr drive, but every time I go there, I’m always excited. I always do fun thing with my Grandma; she is a really nice and generous person as well. Therefore, I always have a REALLY good time there.

5 School delayed (due to Covid-19) (4) 1/26
It’s hard not going to school on ‘normal school days’, you can’t see your friends face-to-face. When you’re on campus It’s obviously better for you to learn and have a better environment to learn.

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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0047272714001509

This article mainly talks about how school closure has positively affected the student’s achievements in learning. The main idea is how ‘evidence’ shows that more students gain more achievements in learning while schools are shut down. They tested in 200 schools that closed due to Covid-19 in Michigan on the performance level both before and after the school closure, and the results show better quality in learning evaluated by teachers. More students wanted to reach out to their teachers for help. Therefore, school closure is claimed to have a good impact in how its effecting the student’s enthusiasm to learn in a good and positive way.

A timeline Scoring from 0 to 10 with 0 being bad feeling and 10 being good feelings

My Collage

My Six-Word Memoir:

Coronavirus spreading furiously, new system learning.

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I was playing video games all the time, and I didn’t even care to do my homework. After 9 weeks of eLearning, my report card came out and it was a total disaster. My parents were really angry, since in some of my main classes all I got was ‘not meeting expectations’. Every time I don’t want to finish my work, I always think that there’s always time to catch up, but since every time I was thinking like this, I never cached up.

I feel really depressed in making so much trouble in my family from not doing my homework to other things. But I don’t know how many times I promised that I would finish my homework, but I always choose not to.

I’ve changed a lot since then, I now finish all my work with good effort. My motivation, you may ask, is that a new quarter is a new start, and sometimes you have to learn lessons the hard way (getting into trouble), It doesn’t feel good. But, that’s how I learned my lesson. My mom has been helping me a lot with my work, and that might also be a factor in how I changed. Some of my teachers are also impressed with my change, so was my mom. I don’t know when the coronavirus outbreak will end, but I do know that I can keep up my quality in my work and get a good report card for Q4.

My Journal Entry #1

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E-Learning

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I don’t know if I can call myself a ‘good citizen’ but I follow every single social distancing rule. My mom told me to go out and walk for a bit since just staying home for a long time is not good for your body. For one second I instantly thought: were we supposed to keep distance from other people, does going outside even help? I didn’t want to go outside, but my mouth said “ok”. I can’t imagine why would my mom come up with an idea that clearly doesn’t follow the rules of social distancing? We scheduled 16:00 to go for a walk, and it was now 15:40. I keep having scary thoughts that the Virus was just outside, waiting for its victims to walk out peacefully and then infect them right away, make them sick, and wait for the next.

At 4:00 I went out, for the first time in 1 month! I had full ‘armor’ on with a quite thick coat and a mask that normally I wouldn’t wear outside, I do not want to get infected at all. I nervously walked through my community, I saw every single keeping great distance, even from pets. Even though I can’t see the virus, I feel that it’s everywhere, and every step that I take is like life or death. I gradually overcame my ‘outside-phobia’ and finished the walk.

When I arrived home, I felt really relieved like I just finished an extreme adventure, and I just did something really refreshed for myself, and I would definitely go out again. I can’t believe that such an ordinary thing that I do became such a special experience during this time, from an everyday routine thing to an adventure!

Journal Entry #2

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Outdoors

The Coronavirus had changed me and the world in many ways. First of all, I bet everyone worldwide will definitely wash their hands every time necessary from now on, and I’m not an exception to that. Second, people will definitely be more careful if someone coughs or sneezes near you. After this outbreak, the whole world will be much cleaner in many ways.

For example, every time I come back from outside, get ready to eat, and in many other scenarios, I will always wash my hands. This is not just now during the outbreak; the time of the entire coronavirus outbreak is absolutely long enough to allow people to form habits or routines to become more sanitized and cleaner.

So, think back, the coronavirus outbreak definitely has huge bad impacts, but that doesn’t mean it does not have good impacts. People will form new, good routines that wouldn’t form if they have not experienced the coronavirus outbreak. The world will be in a new state after the outbreak, some good, and some bad.

Journal Entry #3

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Big Changes

https://www.info.gov.hk/info/sars/en/facemask.htm

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) can be transmitted by respiratory droplets over a short distance or through direct contact with a patient's secretions. Wearing a mask offers protection against SARS. If you have a respiratory tract infection, it also helps prevent the spread of the illness. Surgical masks, if properly worn, are effective in preventing the spread of droplet infections.

Wearing a mask is just one way to help prevent respiratory tract infections. Most important is to observe good personal hygiene. Wash hands frequently with liquid soap. Always wash hands after sneezing, coughing, cleaning the nose; going to the toilet; and before touching the eyes, nose and mouth, or preparing food. You can also build up body immunity by developing a healthy lifestyle - eat well, get plenty of rest, exercise, don't smoke.