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hi everyone my name is Hannah and I'm a college student in Washington DC. Adrienne pine invited me to join this project she is my anthropology professor COVID nineteen has impacted me in so many ways the biggest

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one being I'm a college student and so I expected to spend you know on my last summer here with my loved ones my friends getting internships and exploring the city and really coming into my own after spending so many years building up my connections

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here, um, I'm from California and so when I flew home for spring break I expected to be home all week and I stayed six months now I'm incredibly grateful because I have a safe place to call home I have lovely parents a great boyfriend waiting for me in California

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lovely siblings and amazing dogs that have kept me comfortable and kept me company during this time I have chronic migraines and so the stress of the sudden change has cause flare ups but the one thing that this great pause has given me as an opportunity to think

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about my life As a Gen Z'er who's emerging into the work force I'm learning what I like and don't like about myself as a human being and as a worker I'm thinking about the type of work that I want to bring into the world and how I want to do it and I'm thinking more

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importantly bout the people that I want to do it with I think of anything Kobe nineteen has taught me that it's less about what you're doing and more about how you're doing and who you're doing it with what's coming going in this moment of crisis is my ability to tell stories

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so I have been telling stories of joyful resilience through short documentary filmmaking and I'm grateful that I've had the opportunity and support and resources to make those visions come to life and it's been a slow slow

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creative process but it says a self reflective process the things that I am learning from others I am able to think back and look at myself so having this experience really brought me to you know our last question which is what

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do we hope you will learn I hope the world learns joyful resilience I hope we learn that we are worth the battle I'm finding islands of positivity to hold on to not in that toxic positivity way not in the shallow work hard enough

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and stay happy and you'll get done away but end up finding moments of true joy you experience in your body and your brain um things that are unique and individual to you in using that as a tool to get through this moment um it's

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a lifelong study of yourself really understanding what makes you happy um that's what I wish for the world that we learned to make ourselves happy and we understand that

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our happiness cannot come at the expense of other people's well being that we are our brother's keeper our sister's keeper our siblings keeper that we do have a responsibility to our neighbor that the world is a better place because we are in it and

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that the world would never be the same without us I hope we have more unity and I hope we have more understanding and I hope honestly that we stop questioning each other's fundamental human right I hope you get a chance to breathe and take care of yourself

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take care and thank you for listening