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JAMES (Victoria – Australia) “The world was completely open to me; I was free to travel wherever I wanted, whenever I want. Now thanks to Coronavirus, I live alone in my Nana’s old house, in a small regional town in Victoria, away from family and friends.“ *UPDATED July 25th 2021* |
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JIM (Edinburgh – Scotland) “Maybe I’m getting old ‘n’ grumpy, but I prefer a world that wasn’t so ‘smart’.” |
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LEA (Melbourne – Australia) “Life will never be the same again, every day it changes. We lose something and we gain something every day. We learn to adapt, to be flexible, to draw on our strengths, to build resilience to survive and even through adversity to thrive. I truly believe there’s light at the end of this tunnel.” |
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LEANNE (England) “For me, this is a multi-layered shitshow. The Covid situation has plunged the world into recession and mass-unemployment, unnecessary suffering and untold deaths, but in the UK, we also have the Brexit fallout to contend with.” *UPDATED November 18th* |
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GORDON (Melbourne – Australia) “So take that slow-boil of existential terror, marinate it in an ever-increasing level of restlessness, and then add in the fact that I was neck-deep in online dating at the time, and you’ve got a perfect mix for some shenanigans. I went god damn crazy.” |
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PHIL (Warsaw – Poland) “Gender pay gaps, coal, and taking the piss out of yourself: Phil’s 5 years in Poland.“ |
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ROSS (Sydney – Australia) “I hate that I don’t have the energy or capacity to repay all the kindness that’s been given to me this year. I hate that this year has been terrible to everyone. I just hate this year.” |
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WHITNEY (Victoria – Australia) “Being alive right now means all of us are unified in a global experience of having life adjusted. We are all feeling something. And that in itself is important” |
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JESS (London – UK) “We have a huge amount of burnout and illness among the team, and a seemingly endless roll call of team members needing to isolate and be tested following a cough or a fever.” |
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KYLE (Melbourne – Australia) “She came to my job site and said with a smile on her face, “I’m pregnant!”. Sweet relief. As if the weight of the world of the last 3 years had been lifted off my shoulders.” |
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COURTNEY (Aix-en-Provence – France) “I remember thinking ‘someone would physically have to come and drag me to the airport to make me get on a flight home’.“ |
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JACK (Melbourne – Australia) “The big moments are gonna come you can’t help that. It’s what you do afterwards that counts. That’s when you find out who you are.” |
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KRISTY (Victoria – Australia) “Having your heart in so many places of the world is simultaneously magnificent and heart breaking, because you’re always saying goodbye to some of the greatest friends you’ll ever know.” |
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MITCH (Melbourne – Australia) “I never realised the benefit just a day or two away doing something you love actually has. It keeps you going longer than you think.“ |
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MELINDA (Kent – United Kingdom) “It’s safe to say that I’d be happy to never do an online quiz again” *Updated 24th March 2021* |
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HOLLY (Melbourne – Australia) “Stay safe, stay sane and remember to say Fuck a few times a day and have a wine occasionally, it helps!” |
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ROSS (The Republic of Georgia) “Every day during the lockdown, I told myself how lucky we were. If I had still been in Brisbane I would have really struggled” |
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OLIVER (New York City – USA) “How do I fight for social justice, show solidarity with those I care deeply about, and demand serious reform in my country when I can’t even be outside? I was stuck in a Catch-22.“ |
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ESTHER (Melbourne – Australia) “Taking precautions which includes not travelling is hard, but knowing its for the greater good makes it easier to cope with being stuck.” |
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LIAM (Bristol – England) “For some of the people shielding, the volunteers would be the only people they would see that day“ |
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GAVIN (Toronto – Canada) “We’ve been put into a moral dilemma between supporting local businesses, and keeping people safe.” |
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KRISTIE (Auckland – New Zealand) “I made it to the top of the headland and looked back at the beach and the lake, I thought to myself ‘Why the hell have I never come here?’” |
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CASSIE (Victoria – Australia) “You know what else sucks? I’m an extrovert. Just like superman gets his powers from the sun, I get mine from being around people” |