WEBVTT 00:00:01.378 --> 00:00:02.879 Alright, we are recording. 00:00:02.879 --> 00:00:06.544 My name is Mary Rubin and today is Thursday, December 10, 2020 00:00:06.544 --> 00:00:07.744 and I'm with Korinna. 00:00:08.887 --> 00:00:10.687 Hello, my name is Korinna. 00:00:10.866 --> 00:00:13.916 I'm 20 and I'm a sophomore studying entertainment management. 00:00:15.215 --> 00:00:16.665 Thank you so much Korinna. 00:00:17.718 --> 00:00:22.848 So, tell me about your spring semester prior to the COVID19 related changes. 00:00:24.160 --> 00:00:26.330 Spring semester was a lot of fun. 00:00:26.552 --> 00:00:30.248 There was so many events and things I was going to with all my roommates. 00:00:30.248 --> 00:00:31.668 I lived on campus at time. 00:00:32.119 --> 00:00:36.809 I was like, still doing everything I could as a freshman coming in last year. 00:00:36.997 --> 00:00:40.327 I can remember it being a lot of fun right before COVID hit. 00:00:42.218 --> 00:00:44.358 You mentioned that you were going to events. 00:00:44.358 --> 00:00:47.278 Is there anything in particular that stands out to you now? 00:00:47.304 --> 00:00:51.454 Yes, my favorite, me and my roommates favorites were the arts and crafts events. 00:00:51.970 --> 00:00:55.920 They would have it at the Student Union and the movie nights that they would have. 00:00:56.365 --> 00:00:57.245 Very good. 00:00:57.735 --> 00:01:01.735 Can you tell me what changed when COVID19 became prevalent? 00:01:02.703 --> 00:01:03.443 Yeah. 00:01:03.443 --> 00:01:06.013 Right away, it was just very sudden. 00:01:06.013 --> 00:01:07.072 I remember that. 00:01:07.072 --> 00:01:12.186 I also do tours on campus, so I was doing the physical tours and then 00:01:12.186 --> 00:01:13.846 suddenly it just halted. 00:01:14.196 --> 00:01:17.256 I remember it was right during like Spring Break and they just 00:01:18.718 --> 00:01:19.688 basically were like, 00:01:19.688 --> 00:01:23.438 “yeah, you have to leave right now and get out of the dorms and move out”. 00:01:23.438 --> 00:01:26.948 It was very hectic because it was already spring break. 00:01:27.190 --> 00:01:30.820 Some people weren't even there, and I was just going home for spring break, 00:01:30.820 --> 00:01:34.110 and I didn't get the chance to even retrieve any of my stuff because 00:01:34.110 --> 00:01:34.940 I'd already left. 00:01:34.940 --> 00:01:38.697 I just had about like a weekend worth of clothes and I didn't know when 00:01:38.697 --> 00:01:40.867 I was going to be able to get back to my dorm. 00:01:41.661 --> 00:01:44.751 Can you tell me more about when you did get back to your dorm and 00:01:44.751 --> 00:01:46.631 what the process was like for that? 00:01:46.859 --> 00:01:48.709 Yeah, they had it… 00:01:49.425 --> 00:01:53.135 They organized it really well, the housing people for when you could come in. 00:01:53.456 --> 00:01:57.326 I basically had to pick a certain day and time slot to go get all of my things 00:01:57.622 --> 00:02:01.042 and it wasn't till the summer, I believe that I was able to go back. 00:02:01.042 --> 00:02:05.468 So it was, it was kind of a while or maybe a month or something like that 00:02:05.468 --> 00:02:07.688 before I could actually get any of my things. 00:02:08.102 --> 00:02:11.042 But then I was able to go in with just one other person, 00:02:11.042 --> 00:02:14.482 they had already had the COVID stuff in place. 00:02:14.955 --> 00:02:19.226 Then we got all of our stuff and I think we had a maybe two or three hours 00:02:19.226 --> 00:02:20.776 or something to get in and out. 00:02:20.776 --> 00:02:24.296 But then, from there it was smooth, but it just took a while. 00:02:26.317 --> 00:02:28.817 Did you run into your roommates during that process? 00:02:29.470 --> 00:02:32.060 No, it was kind of separated out. 00:02:32.060 --> 00:02:34.360 I think they had it like that on purpose. 00:02:35.031 --> 00:02:37.991 Did you keep up with your roommates after you had gone home 00:02:37.991 --> 00:02:39.441 and couldn't come back? 00:02:39.824 --> 00:02:44.084 Yeah, we were talking to each other and when we didn't know what was happening, 00:02:44.355 --> 00:02:48.135 if anybody got an email or something we'd be like, “oh, are like, when are you 00:02:48.135 --> 00:02:49.805 going back”, things like that. 00:02:51.191 --> 00:02:53.941 Do you still keep up with them now, two semesters later? 00:02:53.941 --> 00:02:54.651 Yeah. 00:02:54.737 --> 00:02:56.547 -Are you roommates now? -We still talk 00:02:56.702 --> 00:02:58.249 We're not roommates now. 00:02:58.249 --> 00:03:03.019 No, but we still talk on occasion, like random little chats and things. 00:03:04.271 --> 00:03:07.528 Was it always the plan to go back to your parents for spring break, 00:03:07.528 --> 00:03:10.231 or is that just what happened because of COVID? 00:03:10.879 --> 00:03:13.249 It was kind of the plan already. 00:03:13.249 --> 00:03:15.479 I just didn't expect to stay that long. 00:03:15.838 --> 00:03:16.795 That was the thing. 00:03:16.795 --> 00:03:19.579 I knew I was going for at least half of the spring break, 00:03:19.579 --> 00:03:22.319 but then I didn't expect to stay that entire time. 00:03:23.127 --> 00:03:26.307 I think you mentioned that you were close by, so you drove there? 00:03:27.183 --> 00:03:30.043 Yes, I did drive. It's about two and a half hours away. 00:03:30.660 --> 00:03:32.970 I was curious if you had gone on any flights. 00:03:33.344 --> 00:03:34.584 No, I drove. 00:03:36.422 --> 00:03:38.072 Your living situation changed. 00:03:38.072 --> 00:03:39.622 What about your classes? 00:03:40.374 --> 00:03:45.126 All my classes have been online for this semester I basically didn't even 00:03:45.126 --> 00:03:47.546 have to go to campus at all. 00:03:48.453 --> 00:03:52.323 What about spring? What was that like transitioning to online? 00:03:53.319 --> 00:03:55.179 That was really hard for me. 00:03:56.135 --> 00:03:57.335 I am a very… 00:03:57.335 --> 00:04:00.215 Like I need a teacher and someone there telling me. 00:04:00.215 --> 00:04:04.579 I'm very visual to and then it's kind of hard for me to teach myself because 00:04:04.579 --> 00:04:07.253 the motivation procrastination and all that stuff, 00:04:07.554 --> 00:04:10.344 but it was pretty hard at first. 00:04:10.557 --> 00:04:14.037 Since it was especially like in the middle, kind of, not even the middle, 00:04:14.037 --> 00:04:16.817 it was kind of towards like the very end of the semester. 00:04:16.817 --> 00:04:19.187 It was final assignments and things like that. 00:04:19.187 --> 00:04:21.077 It was kind of a hard transition. 00:04:22.659 --> 00:04:25.949 Do you think that your professors did the transition well? 00:04:27.210 --> 00:04:31.080 I think they definitely tried as best as they could from 00:04:31.782 --> 00:04:33.785 it suddenly being online. 00:04:33.785 --> 00:04:36.963 I definitely remember them just being very communicative, 00:04:36.963 --> 00:04:41.343 like communicating back and forth with us on what was happening. 00:04:41.343 --> 00:04:44.153 I think they definitely did try and did a pretty good job. 00:04:45.319 --> 00:04:47.719 You mentioned going to events on campus. 00:04:47.719 --> 00:04:51.579 Did you do anything in spring, online for an event or anything like that? 00:04:53.732 --> 00:04:57.392 In the spring, I don't, I don't remember doing that. Yeah. 00:05:00.173 --> 00:05:01.793 What about social life? 00:05:03.209 --> 00:05:04.259 During spring? 00:05:04.302 --> 00:05:06.512 Spring, after COVID became prevalent. 00:05:06.512 --> 00:05:13.123 Uh, well, it was; it halted basically, everything was kind of still uncertain, 00:05:13.123 --> 00:05:13.903 kind of. 00:05:13.903 --> 00:05:15.833 Nobody really knew what was happening. 00:05:15.833 --> 00:05:19.053 I remember the month of whole quarantine. 00:05:19.053 --> 00:05:23.053 I was in my house for a whole month, so it was- socialization wasn't a thing. 00:05:24.321 --> 00:05:27.126 Did you keep up with social media or anything like that? 00:05:27.567 --> 00:05:31.207 Yeah, I was on social media talking to people and things, 00:05:31.207 --> 00:05:35.147 but then when it was all the new stuff it was just a lot to read. 00:05:35.147 --> 00:05:37.547 So, I was like, “I can't look at this everyday”. 00:05:38.855 --> 00:05:39.795 Make sense. 00:05:41.124 --> 00:05:42.794 Tell me about your summer. 00:05:44.021 --> 00:05:47.181 Summer was pretty uneventful. 00:05:47.181 --> 00:05:51.781 Events were cancelled, vacations, it was just random hanging out, 00:05:51.781 --> 00:05:55.021 things like that since most of it was just spent inside. 00:05:56.379 --> 00:05:58.199 Right after we got out, it was- 00:05:58.397 --> 00:06:01.117 the entire time was inside and then 00:06:03.445 --> 00:06:06.305 it just kind of became school already. 00:06:06.617 --> 00:06:09.037 Then it was August, it went by very fast. 00:06:10.794 --> 00:06:14.704 What are your classes like this semester? I think you mentioned they’re online. 00:06:14.914 --> 00:06:17.134 They were all online this semester. 00:06:18.090 --> 00:06:21.000 Are the professors doing the classes as well again? 00:06:21.913 --> 00:06:23.003 Yeah, it's… 00:06:23.159 --> 00:06:26.979 I had just a couple zoom classes and those were pretty helpful. 00:06:27.140 --> 00:06:31.080 Still being able to have a teacher talk to me, that's what I needed, personally. 00:06:31.813 --> 00:06:35.223 That was pretty nice and then some of them were just completely online. 00:06:35.223 --> 00:06:37.393 Which was fine for how it was set up. 00:06:37.393 --> 00:06:39.523 I think they did a pretty good job again. 00:06:40.143 --> 00:06:42.523 Are you living on campus this semester? 00:06:43.136 --> 00:06:44.756 No, I'm living off campus. 00:06:44.764 --> 00:06:47.524 Okay. What was it like moving? 00:06:48.122 --> 00:06:51.522 Going from on campus housing to now being an off campus housing. 00:06:53.091 --> 00:06:55.001 It was. It's different. 00:06:55.674 --> 00:07:00.084 I loved living on campus because I was there and I got such a school spirit. 00:07:00.721 --> 00:07:02.181 The difference really… 00:07:02.181 --> 00:07:03.806 Also just COVID it on top of it, 00:07:03.806 --> 00:07:07.586 since I can't even go to campus just to do fun things this semester. 00:07:07.732 --> 00:07:11.472 It felt such a disconnect living from the comparison. 00:07:11.688 --> 00:07:14.805 I think also COVID really added on to that because usually, 00:07:14.805 --> 00:07:17.703 I'd go to campus to do things anyway, 00:07:17.703 --> 00:07:19.188 or class and things like that. 00:07:19.188 --> 00:07:24.388 But it definitely added on to that slight disconnect of the school. 00:07:25.037 --> 00:07:27.247 Have you been to campus at all this semester? 00:07:27.802 --> 00:07:30.782 I have because I work on campus and things. 00:07:30.782 --> 00:07:33.782 So I would just go to the student union and things like that. 00:07:33.782 --> 00:07:35.382 And it just looks so deserted. 00:07:35.382 --> 00:07:39.062 And I kind of don't even remember what it's to see all the people. 00:07:39.333 --> 00:07:42.333 It's going to be weird again, if we can do that soon. 00:07:43.514 --> 00:07:46.504 What's it been like in the Student Union when you were there? 00:07:47.681 --> 00:07:48.761 It's so empty. 00:07:49.453 --> 00:07:52.343 Usually you hear all the loud talking and things. 00:07:52.343 --> 00:07:56.660 When I would give tours, I would struggle to get our voice out because 00:07:56.660 --> 00:07:58.250 there's so many people talking. 00:07:58.250 --> 00:08:00.860 Now, it's so quiet and there's barely anybody there. 00:08:01.318 --> 00:08:04.378 It's newly renovated and so nice, but there's nobody in there. 00:08:04.378 --> 00:08:05.138 It's so weird. 00:08:05.420 --> 00:08:07.150 So are you still giving tours? 00:08:08.046 --> 00:08:11.916 Right now we have them virtually through zoom. 00:08:11.916 --> 00:08:15.816 We have online tours and then we have a 00:08:16.423 --> 00:08:17.671 live tour that we do. 00:08:17.671 --> 00:08:22.961 Just two tour guides going around the campus and we do it on Instagram Live, 00:08:23.363 --> 00:08:25.413 but no actual physical towards yet. 00:08:25.654 --> 00:08:26.784 Very interesting. 00:08:29.294 --> 00:08:32.374 Is there anything different this semester about your social life? 00:08:33.888 --> 00:08:37.248 Yeah, it still doesn't really exist that much. 00:08:38.345 --> 00:08:39.585 There’s just the… 00:08:40.714 --> 00:08:44.334 I live with people I talked to, really, that's kind of it, 00:08:44.773 --> 00:08:47.943 don't really get to see many people as much anymore. 00:08:48.562 --> 00:08:50.832 How are your roommates handling everything? 00:08:52.601 --> 00:08:54.491 We're all ready for it to be over. 00:08:55.891 --> 00:08:58.128 But look, we have each other here at least. 00:08:58.128 --> 00:09:00.068 We're not completely alone and 00:09:01.377 --> 00:09:03.317 we go to the store, sometimes. 00:09:06.068 --> 00:09:10.068 Did you face any of the shortages from the stores previously? 00:09:11.000 --> 00:09:14.804 Not recently, but when it was happening during the summer, yes. 00:09:14.804 --> 00:09:18.544 I remember that there was so much craziness happening. 00:09:18.816 --> 00:09:19.916 I was with my parents. 00:09:19.916 --> 00:09:23.926 So, my mom like, “I don't know what to do” and I'm like, “I don't know what to do”. 00:09:25.129 --> 00:09:28.309 What particular items were you looking for? 00:09:28.929 --> 00:09:29.699 Let me see. 00:09:29.699 --> 00:09:31.589 I remember the toilet paper was crazy. 00:09:31.589 --> 00:09:36.409 Everybody was going crazy about that one, and eggs. 00:09:36.866 --> 00:09:39.300 Eggs was another one, I remember my mom saying 00:09:39.300 --> 00:09:41.580 “they got really expensive at one point too”. 00:09:41.840 --> 00:09:44.140 Interesting. I haven't heard the eggs one. 00:09:46.144 --> 00:09:50.915 Getting back to classes, did you have the technology that you needed to succeed 00:09:50.915 --> 00:09:55.515 in your classes from when you went back home and now an off-campus housing? 00:09:56.965 --> 00:09:58.950 I think during the summer, yeah. 00:09:58.950 --> 00:10:01.249 It was really just my laptop that I needed. 00:10:01.249 --> 00:10:04.719 If I didn't have a laptop though, I would have, I would have nothing. 00:10:05.023 --> 00:10:09.623 But luckily, I do have this laptop, so its kind of was everything I needed. 00:10:09.623 --> 00:10:11.353 Then this semester, 00:10:12.530 --> 00:10:16.260 I had a speech class and since it was now online, 00:10:16.260 --> 00:10:21.920 I had to do my presentations and record them and I had to have slides and 00:10:22.357 --> 00:10:24.237 have it in my actual video. 00:10:24.237 --> 00:10:29.229 So, I basically need a projector, a screen, and a pointer and all that stuff. 00:10:29.229 --> 00:10:31.439 I personally do not have any of that. 00:10:32.981 --> 00:10:35.751 The only reason I was able to do it was because, luckily, 00:10:35.751 --> 00:10:38.121 my roommate has a projector, for some reason. 00:10:39.137 --> 00:10:43.917 If I didn't have my roommate, I would have not been able to do that at all. 00:10:44.524 --> 00:10:48.184 That was a thing that I was kind of like, “oh no”, but they saved me. 00:10:49.037 --> 00:10:50.787 Were there any other students. 00:10:50.909 --> 00:10:54.719 I'm not sure if you were able to watch other presentations from other students. 00:10:54.719 --> 00:10:57.419 Did every other student have a projector and pointer? 00:10:58.323 --> 00:11:01.183 I wasn't able to see any of the other ones. 00:11:01.304 --> 00:11:06.374 Her examples were just from past in class ones, so I couldn't see any current ones. 00:11:06.574 --> 00:11:08.194 I have no idea. 00:11:08.391 --> 00:11:12.627 I think she said “you can let her know and talk to her and figure something out, 00:11:12.627 --> 00:11:13.357 maybe”. 00:11:13.357 --> 00:11:16.257 But, I have no idea how they would have done it without one. 00:11:16.282 --> 00:11:17.262 Interesting. 00:11:17.490 --> 00:11:20.780 I know that there was quite a few technology shortages like webcams 00:11:20.780 --> 00:11:21.890 and things like that. 00:11:21.890 --> 00:11:25.420 So it makes me wonder that would have caused problems for other students. 00:11:25.420 --> 00:11:26.230 Anyway, 00:11:27.777 --> 00:11:30.247 how did your academic routines change? 00:11:31.612 --> 00:11:37.075 I had to create a personal schedule and really stick to it. 00:11:37.075 --> 00:11:39.955 Because if not, then life just happens. 00:11:39.955 --> 00:11:44.115 It's like, “oh yeah, school”, so I would make myself wake up early, 00:11:44.115 --> 00:11:46.115 as if it was a normal school day. 00:11:46.371 --> 00:11:48.971 I put myself to do my work at my desk and I was like, 00:11:48.971 --> 00:11:51.781 “Okay, we're going to spend this time. Doing work now”, 00:11:51.781 --> 00:11:54.791 and then I'll have a zoom class and it'll be my study days and 00:11:54.791 --> 00:11:56.841 I had to create a whole schedule. 00:11:58.602 --> 00:12:01.382 How else has a COVID19 affected your life? 00:12:03.504 --> 00:12:05.764 It feels just very limiting. 00:12:06.997 --> 00:12:07.917 All the things- 00:12:08.304 --> 00:12:11.444 I want to do this, want I do this, “oh, I kind of have to wait. 00:12:11.444 --> 00:12:14.044 I have to wait to do this, I have to wait for this”. 00:12:14.044 --> 00:12:17.534 Like with school, I'm like, “oh, I'm excited for this and it's like, oh, 00:12:17.534 --> 00:12:20.134 it's cancelled”. It just made things a lot less fun. 00:12:21.158 --> 00:12:22.888 I'm sorry to hear that. 00:12:24.179 --> 00:12:29.349 How did you feel about the university's action and response to COVID19? 00:12:30.208 --> 00:12:31.998 I think they did a pretty good job. 00:12:32.233 --> 00:12:33.568 There's really not- 00:12:33.568 --> 00:12:35.008 there’s nothing we could do. 00:12:35.008 --> 00:12:36.638 We have to do all these things. 00:12:36.638 --> 00:12:40.087 I think they did a pretty good job at organizing it and the masks and 00:12:40.087 --> 00:12:41.547 stuff that they handed out. 00:12:42.011 --> 00:12:43.263 It's a cute little mask. 00:12:43.263 --> 00:12:44.251 I'm glad I got it. 00:12:44.251 --> 00:12:47.911 I appreciated that they even did that, so I think they did a pretty good job. 00:12:50.645 --> 00:12:53.905 Are you involved in any student orgs, sports or clubs? 00:12:54.681 --> 00:12:59.801 I would volunteer over the arboretum last semester. 00:12:59.992 --> 00:13:03.462 Also, I'm a student section leader for the men's basketball team. 00:13:05.142 --> 00:13:06.659 What has happened with those? 00:13:06.659 --> 00:13:08.509 What changes have occurred? 00:13:09.577 --> 00:13:12.057 With the arboretum, I'm not too sure. 00:13:12.057 --> 00:13:16.390 But with the basketball, basketball is just now starting up and 00:13:16.390 --> 00:13:18.750 they have the games all socially distanced. 00:13:19.191 --> 00:13:20.261 You have to have… 00:13:20.261 --> 00:13:24.610 There's a limited amount of tickets now and the seating is very different. 00:13:24.610 --> 00:13:27.860 I haven't gone to a game yet, but I know that they did have one and 00:13:27.860 --> 00:13:30.390 its super limited capacity and all that stuff. 00:13:31.169 --> 00:13:34.179 I don't know how we're going to bring on the spirit like that, 00:13:34.179 --> 00:13:35.889 with less people but we can try. 00:13:36.694 --> 00:13:39.484 Do you plan to go back to do that? 00:13:40.430 --> 00:13:43.790 I've been thinking about it, and I'm kind of just waiting. 00:13:43.790 --> 00:13:45.522 Maybe for later games. 00:13:45.522 --> 00:13:47.852 Not these first ones, just to see. 00:13:48.451 --> 00:13:50.851 Yeah, I'm still kind of thinking about it. 00:13:52.845 --> 00:13:56.585 Did COVID19 influence your decision to come back for fall? 00:14:00.204 --> 00:14:03.014 No, because I already had a place to live. 00:14:03.014 --> 00:14:06.712 I kind of was like, “I'm going to be in the Orlando area anyway, 00:14:06.712 --> 00:14:09.590 so I'm just going to keep doing school”. 00:14:09.801 --> 00:14:12.781 But I knew that I was going be- 00:14:12.781 --> 00:14:15.201 that it was-everything is going to be different. 00:14:15.201 --> 00:14:17.701 So, I knew it was going to be, maybe even harder. 00:14:17.701 --> 00:14:20.251 So, I was kind of just preparing myself for that. 00:14:21.292 --> 00:14:25.102 So, what happens in your daily life now at off campus housing? 00:14:27.414 --> 00:14:31.234 It's really a lot of me just being at home doing nothing, really. 00:14:31.642 --> 00:14:37.712 Since we can't go out or be in super large crowds, I'm really just here a lot, 00:14:37.712 --> 00:14:40.832 at work, and come back home, really. 00:14:41.046 --> 00:14:42.816 Same thing every day kind of. 00:14:43.844 --> 00:14:47.104 Has your work gave you any opportunity for doing remote stuff? 00:14:48.589 --> 00:14:50.209 Yes. During this summer. 00:14:51.057 --> 00:14:54.197 Especially working for the student union, we had online work and 00:14:54.197 --> 00:14:56.855 then for tour guiding now we have all those things. 00:14:56.855 --> 00:15:00.809 Like I said before, we have the virtual tours and we have a virtual panel that 00:15:00.809 --> 00:15:01.829 we also give. 00:15:02.797 --> 00:15:05.617 So, yeah, I've definitely have the opportunities for that. 00:15:07.132 --> 00:15:09.952 You have any feelings about the upcoming spring semester? 00:15:12.169 --> 00:15:15.365 I wish we could be in person fully but we're not ready, 00:15:15.365 --> 00:15:18.055 then I'm okay with what they have to do. 00:15:18.415 --> 00:15:23.025 I'm not really sure if my classes for next semester are in person or not yet. 00:15:23.409 --> 00:15:27.299 They say that they are, but that's also what they said for this semester. 00:15:27.299 --> 00:15:30.459 So, I'm really just going to see how it plays out. 00:15:30.459 --> 00:15:33.019 But yeah, I know I get why they have to do everything. 00:15:33.019 --> 00:15:33.979 So, yeah. 00:15:36.185 --> 00:15:40.505 What seemed normal a few months ago that now seems very strange? 00:15:42.398 --> 00:15:44.478 Well, like I said, all the- 00:15:44.478 --> 00:15:48.038 thinking about all the people who would be walking on campus at a time; 00:15:48.038 --> 00:15:50.108 that's going to be so weird to see again. 00:15:50.108 --> 00:15:54.430 Like memory mall get so full, and just people walking back and forth between 00:15:54.430 --> 00:15:57.550 the classroom buildings, especially that's what I envision and 00:15:57.550 --> 00:16:02.453 once I see that again it's going to be so weird and actually seeing faces again, 00:16:02.453 --> 00:16:03.743 that's another thing. 00:16:03.994 --> 00:16:05.764 The mask are so… 00:16:06.202 --> 00:16:07.295 They’re so strange. 00:16:07.295 --> 00:16:08.835 Now that's the normal thing. 00:16:08.835 --> 00:16:12.425 I forget what people's faces actually look like, and it's a whole surprised 00:16:12.425 --> 00:16:14.245 when people take their mask off. 00:16:15.858 --> 00:16:20.079 Similarly, what are you doing now, that will probably seem strange once 00:16:20.079 --> 00:16:22.619 things go back to quote unquote normal? 00:16:23.136 --> 00:16:25.626 I think being in my house this much. 00:16:26.154 --> 00:16:29.299 Always being like “well today feels like yesterday” and like, 00:16:29.299 --> 00:16:32.589 not knowing what day it is because everything's kind of just smushed 00:16:32.589 --> 00:16:33.869 together right now. 00:16:33.916 --> 00:16:36.286 The past couple months really just feel like; 00:16:36.785 --> 00:16:38.385 it's not even a couple months. 00:16:38.385 --> 00:16:42.015 It's been a while, and I say a couple months because it feels like it's just 00:16:42.015 --> 00:16:43.205 all jumbled together. 00:16:43.548 --> 00:16:47.478 I think when time kind of changes again because we're doing more things, it's- 00:16:47.643 --> 00:16:49.263 that's going to feel weird. 00:16:49.700 --> 00:16:53.603 Are there any particular months that stand out to you as feeling really long or 00:16:53.603 --> 00:16:54.913 feeling really short? 00:16:56.354 --> 00:17:01.721 I honestly just see it in my head like, I see March and I remember that's 00:17:01.721 --> 00:17:06.681 when everything kind of fell down hill and then I just see a straight line. 00:17:06.753 --> 00:17:12.763 I see August, all of that is smushed together as like one big COVID month. 00:17:13.207 --> 00:17:13.937 Okay. 00:17:18.215 --> 00:17:21.785 How did you stay sane or cope during quarantining? 00:17:23.612 --> 00:17:26.472 Well, it was, I'd have to go outside. 00:17:27.074 --> 00:17:30.682 I just, I'd go in the backyard and just sit outside for a little bit. 00:17:30.682 --> 00:17:35.928 Just being in the house and just in my room because I was also doing schoolwork, 00:17:35.928 --> 00:17:37.808 and things stills on my laptop a lot. 00:17:37.808 --> 00:17:43.137 I just, I couldn't do that. I had to take breaks, literally just go outside 00:17:43.137 --> 00:17:45.957 walk around, exercise, or something like that. 00:17:45.957 --> 00:17:48.173 That's really what kept me sane. 00:17:48.173 --> 00:17:49.763 Just not being inside. 00:17:52.497 --> 00:17:57.357 Did you watch any shows that you associate with COVID19 or the pandemic now? 00:17:58.615 --> 00:18:01.485 I actually stayed away from shows. 00:18:01.485 --> 00:18:04.320 I didn't, I didn't really dive into that for some reason. 00:18:04.320 --> 00:18:08.830 I was just doing my work in school and then after that, I was like, 00:18:08.830 --> 00:18:11.130 “well, here we are”. 00:18:12.140 --> 00:18:16.000 I did try- I learned how to cartwheel. I'd learned a skill. 00:18:17.147 --> 00:18:18.027 Very cool. 00:18:19.340 --> 00:18:20.800 Was your asleep affected? 00:18:22.624 --> 00:18:24.104 Yeah, it was kind of weird. 00:18:24.272 --> 00:18:28.272 First, since I was doing so much work in my room and on my laptop, 00:18:28.498 --> 00:18:32.128 I couldn't even sleep at some points because I would just associate 00:18:32.128 --> 00:18:34.208 my bed as workspace. 00:18:34.208 --> 00:18:38.208 I would just not sleep at all because I didn't feel like it was my bed anymore. 00:18:38.208 --> 00:18:40.338 It was my office, basically. 00:18:41.092 --> 00:18:46.813 That was kind of rough for a couple weeks and then I tried to move the laptop and 00:18:46.813 --> 00:18:50.003 work anywhere else, so I could fall asleep again. 00:18:50.103 --> 00:18:53.583 Then it finally worked after a while, but that was definitely the main 00:18:53.583 --> 00:18:54.633 thing I noticed. 00:18:56.334 --> 00:19:00.324 What would you say was the most significant impact that COVID19 has had 00:19:00.324 --> 00:19:01.284 on your life? 00:19:04.207 --> 00:19:07.797 Well, I think really, it just changed my way of thinking now. 00:19:09.130 --> 00:19:12.390 We said, that once everything goes back to, I guess “normal”, 00:19:12.504 --> 00:19:17.373 it's going to be such a culture shock because I have not lived like that in 00:19:17.373 --> 00:19:18.443 literally months. 00:19:18.443 --> 00:19:23.633 So, I don't even remember what it's like to be truly social and doing things. 00:19:23.633 --> 00:19:26.393 It's going to be a weird step back in. 00:19:27.413 --> 00:19:30.813 You mentioned that you are waiting or putting off stuff. 00:19:30.813 --> 00:19:34.003 So, what are you looking forward to when things get back to normal? 00:19:34.255 --> 00:19:38.744 I'm really looking forward to just seeing old friends again and 00:19:38.744 --> 00:19:40.804 going to like some favorite places. 00:19:40.804 --> 00:19:45.623 And all of the events and things that, I remember from last year. 00:19:45.623 --> 00:19:47.953 Just want to do all the fun things again. 00:19:48.125 --> 00:19:50.375 What are your favorite places around Orlando? 00:19:51.047 --> 00:19:53.997 Let's see. I miss the movies. 00:19:54.108 --> 00:20:00.028 I love seeing movies in person and also just all of the attractions and 00:20:00.028 --> 00:20:02.008 just pretty places here. 00:20:02.008 --> 00:20:03.458 I love going to parks too. 00:20:03.560 --> 00:20:06.440 I guess you can still kind of go to parks as it's very open. 00:20:07.095 --> 00:20:10.625 Just not having to worry about someone walking next to a sidewalk or 00:20:10.625 --> 00:20:11.815 something like that. 00:20:11.994 --> 00:20:13.734 But definitely places like that. 00:20:14.154 --> 00:20:16.534 Have you been to any of the park since 00:20:17.814 --> 00:20:18.974 COVID19 happened? 00:20:19.469 --> 00:20:24.429 I drove by and saw city walk or. 00:20:24.716 --> 00:20:26.756 Yeah, I think that's what it's called now. 00:20:26.890 --> 00:20:27.610 It was 00:20:28.812 --> 00:20:32.672 maybe a couple months ago, just to see and it was still kind of… 00:20:33.194 --> 00:20:35.384 There's a lot of people there and I was like, 00:20:35.384 --> 00:20:39.764 “Oh, so it's fine. I don't know what's happening, but okay”. 00:20:42.718 --> 00:20:46.388 Is there anything in particular that you want people to know about COVID 19? 00:20:49.473 --> 00:20:51.563 I would say maybe just; 00:20:52.479 --> 00:20:54.799 we kind of normalized it so fast. 00:20:54.799 --> 00:20:58.102 I feel maybe we should actually take once it's all gone. 00:20:58.102 --> 00:21:02.452 Maybe we can take a look back and just kind of “Wow, that was a lot” 00:21:02.452 --> 00:21:05.692 and kind of give ourselves a little bit of a break, I feel. 00:21:05.692 --> 00:21:06.442 Because… 00:21:06.442 --> 00:21:09.342 I don't know if people are taking this even seriously, but… 00:21:09.342 --> 00:21:10.872 Just as a real again… 00:21:10.872 --> 00:21:12.932 is an important thing that's happening. 00:21:12.932 --> 00:21:16.532 I feel maybe we should, you know, make it feel it's an important thing. 00:21:17.564 --> 00:21:20.984 Is there anything that you want people to take from this in particular 00:21:20.984 --> 00:21:22.824 beyond a break? 00:21:27.656 --> 00:21:32.246 Yeah, I guess, it's it feels also kind of like wasted time. 00:21:32.246 --> 00:21:36.196 I guess, so that I hope people don't feel it is wasted time and 00:21:36.196 --> 00:21:40.036 I hope that people did get at least something out of it from either 00:21:40.036 --> 00:21:43.206 being inside a lot or just even being out in the world like that. 00:21:43.206 --> 00:21:45.786 I hope we all still learn something from this. 00:21:46.102 --> 00:21:47.432 Yes, I agree. 00:21:51.104 --> 00:21:52.794 Do you have any questions for me? 00:21:56.104 --> 00:21:58.514 I liked all your questions. 00:21:59.715 --> 00:22:01.885 In that case, I am going to stop recording. 00:22:03.500 --> 00:22:04.390 Thank you again.