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Jonathan Dorival

 

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Prof. Schmerler

 

April 24-27th 2020

 

Unit II– Mid Semester– Life during Coronavirus

 

Section 1: Extended diary excerpt

 

April 24th – Manhattan, Ny 

 

12:30pm

 

Currently writing this on my phone while on my break. I’m really having mixed feelings about this Coronavirus quarantine situation ever since I got paid. Like I hate these twelve  hours shifts back to back but once I saw that direct deposit hit …. I was like Oh Sh** !!!  On the other hand, work was a calm day today and we only got two deliveries today from fedex. Hopefully it stays like this until my shift is over. Yes guys I work in a warehouse getting equipment that the nurses use for the Corona patients. My Sergeant won’t even let us go to the same floor as them unless we put on a whole bunch of protective clothing. Break time always seems faster than actually working. It’s like I can’t even catch a little nap.

 

April 25th – Manhattan, Ny 

 

12:30 pm

 

Another day, another dollar it’s like everyday is the same. Thankfully I’m not stuck in the house cause I would go insane honestly. Now that I’m really thinking about it.. I can’t really complain cause some people really have it worse than me right now. Stuck at home everyday because they either don’t have an essential job or their parents just too scared and don’t want anything to happen to their kids. I just hope eventually this doesn’t end soon but they allow us to go back outside sooner than later.

 

April 26th – Manhattan, Ny

 

I just realized that I’m so behind on classwork. Don’t even have time on my hand to hop on Zoom calls or anything because I’m always doing something here at this WAREHOUSE. Sometimes I actually missed school. Like I remember we were talking about distance learning one day in class but I never thought we would actually be in this situation honestly.

 

April 27 – Manhattan, Ny

 

9:16pm

 

Today was a good day. Although they had me working I got out early today at like 3pm. Which felt great of course. Came back to my room, ate some pasta, shower and went to sleep. Woke up and remembered that I forgot to submit this assignment. Even though I’m already late by a couple days. I talked to my mom and my family today. Thankfully they are all doing fine doing this quarantine time. My little brothers are enjoying this time from school more than I am. Lucky for them they didn’t even experience the stressful college life yet.

 

Section 2: Reflection and Analysis of Diary Reading

 

I chose the Diary of a Wimpy Kid because I used to love reading those books during middle school. I really enjoyed reading the series and I enjoyed every book from the first one to the last one. I liked the format of the book and also the little drawing that they had in the book to keep the book interesting of course. Jeff Kinney did a good job with writing this book. Wish I could meet him in person so I could talk to him about it more, see his ideas and hear what he has in store later on his time of writing books.

 

Section 3: Reflection On Unit 2

 

Unit 2 was  confusing at first because of the whole Coronavirus pandemic not only with my English class but all of the other classes. Trying to balance school work while working twelve hours every day has become very stressful. Also because this was my first time ever studying in an online class. I like how Professor Schmerler tried to create videos to help us understand the assignments better that was very helpful of course. I had a little hard time writing my daily blog post because of the way my schedule is with work but thankful I got it done. Better late than never

 

diary entry 1

March 30, 9:59 am

I’ve finally got some free time on my hands after helping build this hospital that for Governor Cuomo. Been a long couple days waking up from 5am and not getting back to my hotel room till 6:30 or 7pm. I can’t wait till I finally can get a break and actually sleep in and enjoy my sleep. Times like this is where I miss my normal life… waking up for school at 10am and leaving around 4 or 5pm. The “grownup life” is really different from the life we have right now. I just hope this doesn’t mess up my summer.

 

March 30th, 11:18am

I started coughing and having a serve headache. Went back to work like how I always do at 5am but this time things felt different. I couldn’t concentrate. One of my sergeants saw me coughing and put in quarantine in the hotel room for 14 days. Best 14 days of my life honestly because now I can catch up on so much sleep. Slept like a baby when I got back to my room. Enjoyed breakfast and started making up assignments that I’ve missed (there’s a lot).

 

April 1st, 12:37pm

Slept like a baby again in this comfy hotel bed. Starting to love this quarantine. I wonder if they would put me on it again if I start coughing or would they just send me home. Basically did the same thing I did yesterday. There isn’t really much to do because the higher ups told me that I couldn’t leave my room. Headache is gone. I’ve just been sneezing here and there and I have a runny nose. The doctors and medics check up on me daily to see my health and of course thank God it’s improving. But I was kinda scared the first day because coughing and headaches are symptoms of the virus.

Diary entry2_ Jonathan

Honesty when we was talking about this whole virus thing in class and how we would have to transition to classes online… I thought we was just joking. But it’s really serious. Governor is debating on giving curfews, everyone is buying groceries from the supermarket and are now being very careful. And then there’s me .. I don’t see it as something so serious. I don’t know why I think like this honestly but just being away from home right now and being with the National Guard doesn’t really make me scared at all well if I’m really telling the truth I wasn’t scared at all honestly thought this was just a little phase that was going to pass us and move on but it looks like it’s going to stick around for a while. I hope not