As I sit here in the library and start to do the assignment, I realize how serious people are taking the Coronavirus. Everyone is walking around avoiding each other with the inability to see their face. People’s mask is covering their face where you can’t even notify the people you once knew. I approached a girl I known from playing basketball and I am shocked on the work she is studying for which looks like a different language. She pulls down her mask to talk because we have had interaction with each other before, so she has some sort of trust on me not giving her COVID.
We begin to talk about what she is studying for and she proceeds to tell me calculus. All I know from the sheet she was working on was how to say cosine and tangent. I take my seat in a purple chair that is very much comfortable. Feels as if you are sitting on marshmallows. It feels good to sit down due to my legs feeling like Jell-O. We are in conditioning week and we lift three times a week, which is completely horror.
When sitting in my chair I forgot how quiet the library is due to the ability to hear the air conditioning filling the room. It is like taking the ACT all over again on how quiet it is. Then I proceed to look out the window. Seeing everyone in pants and sweatshirts knowing it is a pretty chilly day. I even seen someone with a stocking cap on.
“She pulls down her mask to talk because we have had interaction with each other before, so she has some sort of trust on me not giving her COVID.” An example of show vs. tell. You use a concrete example to “show” trust.
“Feels as if you are sitting on marshmallows.” Metaphor!
“It is like taking the ACT all over again on how quiet it is.” Another metaphor. One that students will get.
Nicely done.