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CONTINUE Multiplier Event: What in your experience was the biggest impact of the pandemic on young people?
Please Report the Errrors?
Hello. Hi.
What's your name? Please tell you my name is Andrew.
Okay.
And can you tell us a bit about your experiences of pandemic period, please? Sure.
I guess the first thing that came to my mind when this topic was brought up was
very distinctly. I have a memory of
being in my kitchen in Montana, which is in Italy,
and I had just moved there maybe four months beforehand, and I don't know why,
but I just remember being on the phone with my mom
and just having that moment of really feeling the distance.
Um, we were in a hole in total lockdown, So we in Italy kind of hit us first, I guess,
in the western world.
And so we were locked down, and the first kind of week was a little bit like, Well,
this is crazy.
A kind of a weird experience. But then,
uh, really sunk in.
And I just remember being there and having this technology which normally was a way
to connect with people from distances and just having that moment and just like,
completely like breaking down and started crying and being like that fear of, uh,
you know I was.
I think it was 26
when it broke out and like I had just moved to Europe and feeling almost
really
excited about this new adventure I was going on and then all of a sudden,
feeling so isolated.
So the world was really open for me, and then it was really closed off.
So that was kind of remember,
just that one moment I could really feel I have such a distinct memory.
But the other thing is, then, you know, it was not just one experience,
it was over amount of time.
And I remember, uh
uhh.
I ended up getting out of that experience and I was working
at a bar and then I lost my job because yeah,
he kept working in a bar is kind of hard.
And then I got a cool job working at a really interesting alternative school,
and I was working with the kids that were, like, eight or nine,
and so I remember exciting and type of experience,
but they're almost like a little snapshot of a
snapshot of an experience that I remember was,
uh,
one of the one of my students had a lot
of trouble with masks unless you couldn't keep it up.
And it was this really weird thing trying to force 789 year olds to keep this mask up.
Keep the mascot, keep the mask up. And it became almost,
you know,
they were all Italian kids and became this experience of like
this realising like this was the English that they were learning.
This was the vocabulary that they were learning.
But also more than that,
just like not being able to see their smiles
and like losing that aspect of communication was really hard
and disheartening. So although
we were able to kind of respond and still be places,
that was kind of those experiences of these things.
That cat on
separately?
Yes. Half of your face or yes, actually separated physically. Also
the physical separation. But even when we were close still being separated? Yes.
So I guess those were kind of my experiences of
being a young person or being around young people are just
Those are kind of just two little snot.
Thank you very much for sharing. Thank you. Have a nice day.
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