My life during Covid 19

For my Steller story, which you can view here, I took pictures of my brothers Raymond and Jared as well as my father Russell. The point of my story was to give people a sample of some of the things we are doing to pass the time during the COVID 19 pandemic. The pictures showed a handful of activities that took place.

            The biggest challenge of this assignment was finding something that is picture worthy. There is a lot of nothing going on most of the time. Usually the most exciting part of my time is my morning run on a treadmill and doing my homework. Luckily, we live in a rural area in Michigan so we can all go outside more often than other people. This blog discusses some of the events that were photographed.

            Like all students, we have been learning online. All three of us have watched and listened to lectures on Blackboard, Zoom, and Facebook live. It is nowhere near as good as going to class in person and having face-to-face interactions with students and professors. Understanding that this is not the most exciting thing to look at, there are only two pictures of this.

            Jared, my older brother, is a graduate student earning a masters in statistics. To earn credit, he is required to teach a class to students. He was also forced to adapt to teaching online. The feature interview in my story is of him discussing his experience teaching online and what is lost teaching online.

            As mentioned earlier we are lucky enough to have a large property that allows us to go outside. We live on a farm; our house was built next to my grandpas house my dad could farm the fields and have access to the two barns outside our house which can be scene in a previous blog. Years later my dad has started a project in what used to be his parent’s garage.

            My dad is building a workshop in his parent’s old garage, and since we have nothing better to do, the three of us have been helping him with whatever he needs. The biggest part of the project was putting up insulation to keep the place warm in the winter because there were a few small holes in the walls. We have also helped him build shelves that will be used for storage in the future. I enjoy this because it is nice to get some fresh air occasionally.

            Indoors we have enjoyed our boardgame. We have been playing a game called Pandemic Legacy. The object of the game is to work as a team to save the world from a global pandemic. Games in the Legacy series change every time you play because you are asked to place permanent stickers on the board or rip up certain cards.

            The only way to win is to play the game at least 12 times because each round is a different month. We would have been playing this anyway, but we felt weird dealing with a fictional pandemic and a real pandemic at the same time.

            We also have been playing video games to pass the time. Occasionally we get our parents to join us. We enjoyed hanging out together.

            The final and most important thing we have done together is cook meals. We have only ordered food one time during this entire pandemic. All meals but one has been home cooked.

Overall, I learned the importance of keeping my eyes open to find a picture-worthy moment. Here are a few pictures that were used in my story.