Item

Moving Out of My First Apartment

Title (Dublin Core)

Moving Out of My First Apartment

Description (Dublin Core)

During the 2019-2020, I was living at Vista Del Sol, the apartment style housing available to upper division Barrett students at Arizona State University. I was fortunate to share my apartment with three close friends, and over the course of the school year, we had often gotten together with some of our other friends to hang out and enjoy the college lifestyle in our apartment. After we all returned from spring break, we discussed how uncertain our futures would be with the pandemic, and with so little information or precedent available to us, we all faced uncertain circumstances. Three of us were from Tucson, but our fourth roommate was an out of state student, but we all wanted to remain in our room until the conclusion of the semester (when we were sure the whole situation would be over). However, with added stress from our parents, we found out over the course of a week, that all of our parents expected us to return home, where they presumed we'd be safer and better monitored, instead of leaving us to our own devices. Packing and spending those moments together were heartbreaking, and would only be amplified in the coming months as we were unable to see each other and spend time together, even for special occasions such as birthdays or other events. As a last hurrah, the weekend before our first roommate moved out, we threw ourselves a little goodbye party, with a roommates photoshoot that we reference even now, a year later.

Date (Dublin Core)

March 28, 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

Melissa Kim

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Melissa Kim

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

URE494

Partner (Dublin Core)

Arizona State University

Type (Dublin Core)

Text story

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Home & Family Life

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

Tempe
Arizona
Arizona State University
Vista del Sol
Tuscon
apartment

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

Tempe
Arizona

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

03/08/2021

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

04/14/2021
03/25/2022

Item sets

This item was submitted on March 8, 2021 by Melissa Kim using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: http://mail.covid-19archive.org/s/archive

Click here to view the collected data.

New Tags

I recognize that my tagging suggestions may be rejected by site curators. I agree with terms of use and I accept to free my contribution under the licence CC BY-SA