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Author: Nakiyah Cantey
It was about five years ago since I’ve learned who Anne Frank was. I was never fascinated with history, but when I learned who she was and what she did it caught my attention. Being a freshman in high school my english teacher gave us a book called “The Diary Of A Young Girl”, this book specifically was published in 1993. I don’t remember everything that was written in the book, but I know the book was very interesting. I remember this book allowing me to paint pictures in my head and understanding how the character feels. Looking back to my freshman year I never thought about why my teacher made us read the 1993 version. But thinking of it now it made the book more reliable and life like given that the holocaust took place during 1941-1945.
Skimming back over the book it brought back so many memories. A young girl having to spend her life in hiding due to the holocaust. It upsets me how cruel someone can be just to dictate someone’s life. I can’t imagine how someone like Anne Frank was always able to keep a smile on her face and continue to do the things she does. When I think of Anne Frank I think of the word strong. A young girl hiding for two years avoiding the concentration camps knowing what might happen to her family if they are found, but yet she tries to continue living her life as if everythings normal.
Bringing back these old memories makes me want to re-read her diary. Now that I am older I want to see how I will interpret her diary differently than the way I did before. I want to know what is different about the book? How is the author’s use of diction different? Would there be different emotions in the book?
March 25,2020
10:00AM
Right now I’m on Blackboard Collaborate attending my biology class for an hour and fifteen minutes. I find the online class quite boring because she sends us the slides to take notes on our own time, so I don’t really see the point on using Blackboard Collaborate. I guess she uses it for attendance mainly.
11:15AM
Next I have Bio Lab until 2PM unfortunately. Again I do find using Blackboard Collaborate boring. I much rather be sitting in class and using the actual materials for the experient. But there’s nothing we can do because of the virus. After the class finished I took a nap because I didn’t get much sleep last night.
5:00PM
I woke up from my nap and began to feel hungry. So I proceeded to get something to eat, as I’m eating I’m watching spongebob which is my favorite childhood show.
6:20PM
I began to do my Precalculus classwork for about an hour and 30 minutes. After I did my math work I decided to do my math homework which took about an hour to do.
9:00PM
After completing all of my math work, I went to go take a nice hot shower. Next I went to have my dinner that my mother cooked (oxtail,rice,and plantain). After eating dinner my uncles from Trinidad facetime my mother to see how we’re doing. I honestly miss Trinidad, I miss the weather, and being around my family. Hopefully I’m still able to go for the summer.
11:00PM
I got bored, so I went on my playstation to play Gta and COD with my friends from middle school. Typically we usually be on the game for about 2-3 hours
March 26,2020
2:00AM
Since the lockdown had started my sleeping schedule has been messed up. Me being anemic I started to crave ice, so of course I got a big cup of ice to eat. While I’m eating my ice I am again watching spongebob on NickToons until I fall asleep.
Before the lockdown has been announced I’ve been at my aunt house spending time with my cousins. I took my little cousins Noah and Judah outside to get birthday cake milkshakes and my older cousin Kalifa insisted on getting tattoos but the tattoo shop was close due to the virus. Lastly my cousin Jahdai and I went to target to pick up food stuff, I then watched her do her clients hair, and lastly we attempted to go to Claw Daddy but it was over capacity so we ended up going to Chick Fil A.
Since then, my mother has me barricade inside the house since the 17th. I’ve been dying to go outside because of extreme boredom, but now that the lockdown has been announced I probably won’t be able to go outside for about a month unfortunately. I realized I’ve found myself eating and sleeping way more than I usually will, I guess that’s a way I found to kill time. I’ve also been catching up on lots of shows, right now I am currently watching All American on Netflix which is a really good show. Lastly I’ve been watching YouTube videos on makeup and hairstyles, and I’ve also been playing my PlayStation way more.
My mother is finding it very hard to adapt to the situation we’re in. She’s used to getting up every morning going to work and then coming home, but now that she has nothing to do her anxiety has gone up immensely. But she is finding ways to coop with her anxiety by painting her room, rearranging things, watching movies, and bothering me. Hopefully the virus can clear up real soon because I don’t think my mother and I can take being in this house for too long.
Personally I feel like some people are taking the coronavirus as a joke rather than serious. All over social media people are making jokes about the virus, but not taking precaution towards it. As we know it’s a deadly virus with flu like symptoms that has no cure or vaccine for it yet. Scientific studies has shown that if anybody has tested positive for the virus has 14 days to outlive the virus, if you can’t then the results will be death and you can then the virus will be fully out your system. Also it can take up to five days for anybody to display symptoms while the virus is in your system. As a result, I find myself being more cautious of my surroundings. The only thing I can say to help avoid getting the virus is washing your hands all the time, carry hand sanitizer when walking outside, and avoid touching you face. It’s also preposterous how the virus is deeply affecting society; stores are out of hand sanitizer, tissue, certain food products, rubbing alcohol, lysol spray/wipes, and etc. Personally I feel like this all has to do with the government wanting population control, because if the virus has been discovered already then why is it now all of sudden taken affect? Why isn’t there a vaccine for the virus yet? This all seems a bit suspicious to me.
