Stephanie, 20
*nervous laughter*
“Well… when the pandemic started I was studying abroad in Japan…and because of the virus I got sent home so my life got disrupted in Japan and in the US…”
“But…you know just like everybody else I lost my job that I had…my volunteer opportunity for the summer, that sort of stuff…and now that I’m home I’m in quarantine and I can’t really do anything but my 14-days is over tomorrow but I can’t really do anything because of the stay at home order, I can’t really go out anyways…”
“So…umm…”
*silence*
“It’s a lot of…”
*silence*
“Nothing. Umm…”
*nervous laughter*
“It’s effected my…well like the…I guess it hasn’t effected my fellowship…but like originally I was supposed to have spring semester and my classes in Japan, but those hadn’t started yet…”
“So getting my classes figured out and this term was kind of a mess but it ended up working out…so…umm…yeah!”
*nervous laughter*