descriptive writing on where I would go after quarantine
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When you picture the moment when you are free from social distancing practices and quarantine restrictions, what do you want to do immediately? Do you want to visit a familiar place? Is there a food you want to eat or a smell in nature that you have missed? Are you eager to see friends face-to-face or to hug a family member? Or do you just want the freedom to wander around outside carefree?
In “Meet the Neighbors,” Sasha von Oldershausen and her brother, Justin von Oldershausen, present photographs and stories of their neighbors in Jamaica, Queens, during the coronavirus pandemic. The article begins:
As New Yorkers, we tend to live our lives without ever really knowing our neighbors. They’re the people we hear through the walls, their voices and clatter above and below. Sometimes, we share intimate moments through these walls: fights and lovemaking, or a baby crying through the night. The smells of dinner drift through doors and commingle in the lobby. Misdirected mail gets slid under a door.
But over the past weeks, there’s been an unexpected upside to quarantine: We’re getting to know each other better. We’ve seen our neighbors dancing on rooftops and singing on their fire escapes. In the evenings, apartments are aglow. We open our windows at 7 p.m. to cheer and clap for the health care and essential workers on the front lines. Then we shut them again, hoping to keep out the sound of sirens.
In the Jamaica neighborhood of Queens, the borough hardest hit by Covid-19, my brother took distanced portraits of his neighbors in the building where we live, owned by our father since 1980. Some have lost their jobs. Others are coping with working from home while they care for their children whose schools have closed. We asked what they’ve learned from this crisis and what they are looking forward to once it has passed. It was great to talk.
They asked their neighbors: What’s the first thing you plan to do postquarantine? Here are some of their responses:
“My grandmother, she’s the person I’d like to see. Yesterday I dropped a plant off at her house, but I didn’t go inside. I just put it down and left.” — Roxanne Francis, 37
“I want to go back to my workplace and pray in my temple. We pray two times every day, in the morning and evening.” — Kirian Barua, 48
“Go on vacation to my town in Guatemala. I don’t like staying in quarantine. For now, it’s OK. At first, it was very scary. My son is working for the M.T.A. He drives a bus. He has to wear a mask on the bus.” — Verda Velasco, 53
“My boss called me yesterday. I work in a hotel as a housekeeper and it’s very dangerous for me. When I’m working, I have to protect myself with gloves. I also wear a mask sometimes when I do a deep clean. When this is over, I want to continue, but I’m afraid. Because if they don’t find the cure, or some vaccination, you still have to continue protecting yourself. Especially since I travel every day on that train. Those trains are sometimes disgusting. Sometimes I’m tired after working seven hours but I try not to sit down. I need to protect myself.” — Emma Ayala, 57