My Corona : one family’s life during pandemic
Vunk, Enriika (2021)
2021
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The writer is a journalist from Estonia who moved to Finland eight years ago and is still working as a freelancer, but feels she could do whole lot more than just that. When the new virus spreads throughout the world, the author feels that nothing is the same anymore and abnormal becomes normal. So she wanted to save all the thoughts and feelings raised by the new world, packed in a small book, illustrated with photos.
Synopsis
Everything starts with the sandstorm in the Canary Islands. At the time, we do not know yet that this is somehow like a funny test from God, who is already teaching us how to wear masks and stay at home more than ever before.
The author is staying at Canary Islands with her family when the sandstorm Ca-lima begins and they are going to be stuck there for three more days. In Calima, people are wearing masks and there is no clue yet, that soon the very same world would be around all of us. Finally, leaving Las Palmas, they hear about a quarantine in one of the hotels in Tenerife due to Corona. Everything begins there.
The author soon finds herself in the middle of the world full of Corona - everybody is talking about it, reading about it, acting and living by the rules of a virus. When at first, the author feels no fear and is really sceptical about it, a new period starts, where fear is all she has. At the end, the author finds peace in herself again and is going back to the beginning, where she had all mixed up feelings about this new virus.
This emotional rock ’n ’roll is following author through every page of the book. The author strongly believes that her thoughts do matter and in the future they could help understand what at least one person was going through in this new, freshly begun strange world with a dip of Corona virus in it.
In the academic part, the thesis studies the journey of writing an autobiographical book by comparing that with an autoethnographic research.
Synopsis
Everything starts with the sandstorm in the Canary Islands. At the time, we do not know yet that this is somehow like a funny test from God, who is already teaching us how to wear masks and stay at home more than ever before.
The author is staying at Canary Islands with her family when the sandstorm Ca-lima begins and they are going to be stuck there for three more days. In Calima, people are wearing masks and there is no clue yet, that soon the very same world would be around all of us. Finally, leaving Las Palmas, they hear about a quarantine in one of the hotels in Tenerife due to Corona. Everything begins there.
The author soon finds herself in the middle of the world full of Corona - everybody is talking about it, reading about it, acting and living by the rules of a virus. When at first, the author feels no fear and is really sceptical about it, a new period starts, where fear is all she has. At the end, the author finds peace in herself again and is going back to the beginning, where she had all mixed up feelings about this new virus.
This emotional rock ’n ’roll is following author through every page of the book. The author strongly believes that her thoughts do matter and in the future they could help understand what at least one person was going through in this new, freshly begun strange world with a dip of Corona virus in it.
In the academic part, the thesis studies the journey of writing an autobiographical book by comparing that with an autoethnographic research.