Young People in the Pandemic: by Luca Warde, age 11
There are a lot of underreported stories out there that need to be told about how young people have experienced the COVID-19 pandemic. Personal stories about the pandemic need to be heard and paid attention to so we can have a better understanding of what people have experienced. I completed three interviews about young people in the pandemic and it has been very interesting. These interviews have been great opportunities to meet people I never would have met and see what people think about the pandemic in other parts of the world. Firstly, I interviewed a college student from Turkey named Sohib. He also seemed to know English pretty well. He said the pandemic really started affecting him after he finished high school so I could infer that he is probably a freshman. He said he was not that worried about the pandemic because he was taking the precautions. He is from Libya and he compared the two countries and thought that Turkey did a much better job controlling the virus than Li