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HIST30060: A Trip to the Zoo
Title (Dublin Core)
HIST30060: A Trip to the Zoo
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Description (Dublin Core)
I started at Melbourne University in March 2022, moving all the way from Sydney and knowing no one in Melbourne. I quickly made a group of friends at college, but things were still a bit new and awkward - we were in that stage of a new friendship where you are past small talk but not quite at deep and meaningful. Regardless, we decided to take a trip to Melbourne Zoo on the 22nd of March. It was a great day: the sun was shining and the animals were beautiful. We were joking around and it seemed like we were at the start of a really exciting and close friendship.
In the early afternoon, I got a phone call from mum. News had been trickling in over the past month of COVID cases and deaths in Australia, but we still weren't entirely sure how seriously to take the disease, and we were clueless about how it would change our lives. On the phone, mum asked if I had been reading the news. Of course I hadn't. She told me that all non-essential services would be shut down, and that it was likely going to get more strict as the week went on. "I think you should come home. Uni will be online anyway."
The next day, I was on a plane back to Sydney, after only having spent 22 days at college. Never fear, though, I was sure it'd all be over soon.
In the early afternoon, I got a phone call from mum. News had been trickling in over the past month of COVID cases and deaths in Australia, but we still weren't entirely sure how seriously to take the disease, and we were clueless about how it would change our lives. On the phone, mum asked if I had been reading the news. Of course I hadn't. She told me that all non-essential services would be shut down, and that it was likely going to get more strict as the week went on. "I think you should come home. Uni will be online anyway."
The next day, I was on a plane back to Sydney, after only having spent 22 days at college. Never fear, though, I was sure it'd all be over soon.
Date (Dublin Core)
March 22, 2020
Creator (Dublin Core)
self
Contributor (Dublin Core)
Rose
Event Identifier (Dublin Core)
HIST30060
Partner (Dublin Core)
University of Melbourne
Type (Dublin Core)
Text
Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)
English
Education--Universities
English
Animals
English
Emotion
Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)
Australia
Sydney
Melbourne University
Melbourne Zoo
animals
friendship
nostalgia
Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)
22032020
Melbourne Zoo
The Beginning
Nostalgic
Linked Data (Dublin Core)
Date Submitted (Dublin Core)
11/13/2022
Date Modified (Dublin Core)
11/14/2022
Date Created (Dublin Core)
03/22/2022
Item sets
This item was submitted on November 13, 2022 by Rose using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: http://mail.covid-19archive.org/s/archive
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