Author: Patricia Vitebsky

Since the begging of this pendemic my outlook on the world has changed. I appetite  my family and everything that I have a lot more. I feel blessed to have my parents and everything they provide and help me with. As anybody else I’m missing my friends and how life was before the pandemic. I even miss the train rides to school and the coffee I bought every morning. Online learning has been more difficult that I have anticipated. Keeping up with all of the assignments and keeping contact with my professors has been very complicated. I found myself struggling in my classes due to the zero motivation I had to doing any of my school work at home. This has been a difficult and depressing time for all of us and I cant wait for the day we go back to our regular lives.

One way that I get creative is by making Tiktoks. These are little videos that you can upload on the app and express your creativity. I try to make relatable videos to gain a following on the app. I also keep up with fashion trends that are popular at the moment. I love to put together outfits and post them on Tiktok.  Another thing that has taken up my time was editing pictures and putting filters on them to make them brighter and more appealing to the eye. Before quarantine I took a lot of  pictures of food, the city, myself, and a bunch of other pretty things. I use an app called VSCO to edit my pictures. I save them and keep them for when I can get a chance to post them. I also go on walks and appreciate the nature around me. I was in Pennsylvania for most of the quarantine, so going on walks is what made me happy. I walked to the river next to my house and took pictures of the sunset. Then I would edit those pictures. This whole experiance changed me and the things that matter to me. I try to be as creative as I can in order to keep my mind entertained.

At the start of this year I have made a lot of resolutions. One of them being to focus on school more and just be more productive in all aspects of my life. Covid-19 has taken most those things away. Virtual learning has made things more difficult for me because I’m the type of person who procrastinates a lot. I have never taken an online class before, so in the beginning I was excited to try it out, but now I can see how it could possibly bring my grades down. I try to push myself to work harder each and everyday and for now it has been working out. Not being able to leave my house has put a strain on me mentally as well as the fear for anyone in my family to get the virus. This virus has effected me in more ways then one. I have lost my job as well as the ability to support myself. Before this outbreak I was a very social person and i loved to go out with my friends. Now everyone has to do their part for the community and stay home and maintain social distancing.
With everything that is going on I have to focus on the positives. Since the quarantine began I have been getting closer with my family and have a much stronger relationship with my sister. I’m grateful that I have a home to stay in, food to eat, and the ability to study online. This whole situation has changed my prospective of the world. Material things don’t matter as much as health and family values. It’s beautiful to see our community come together and I’m especially thankful to the first responders, nurses, doctors, firefighters, and police officers.