When the pandemic took over life in March of 2020, life changed abruptly for people around the world, including high school students in the United States.
After almost a year and a half after the initial shut down, I talk to Kaitlyn and Emma, two now-rising seniors at a high school in Charlotte, NC, to find out how life has changed and what they want people to know about what it’s been like. They are just some of the ordinary people in the world facing extraordinary circumstances, and this is their story.