3/27/20 Janny Cai PD 7

Monday, March 30th, 2020 

Janny Cai, Period 7 

My Thoughts on the Reading: 

After reading the first chapter of the novel, Interview With The Vampire, there were a lot
of things that I realized surrounding how vampires are created and how they would act
and whatnot. It was very eye-opening for me, to say the very least. 

But first, while he was telling the story, Louis is very articulate and his ability to express

comfort, empathy, through his words and actions while sharing his story to a kid who

was obviously super anxious about interviewing a real vampire. On top of that being

able to describe indescribable feelings in such a way that humans could understand.

Kudos to the author, Anne Rice, for her writing. Anyways, while reading his story, we

see a man experience many events during his life and we also follow along his

rollercoaster of emotions. 

First off, I thought vampires were a solid concept. So I thought people would just die
right after being bitten by a vampire and they feed on blood because they needed
blood to keep themselves alive. And then you have the usual; stake through heart,
garlic, cross, holy water, and sun allergies. 

I just thought they were just blood-sucking beings that were just there. None of the
transitional parts from transforming from human to being a vampire crossed my mind,
and how painful and confusing it might be for an individual. I just thought that was the
case since I never really explored other media relating to vampires. (Like Twilight? Or
Dracula?) I had a mild interest in vampires so… just my thoughts. 

My Experiences Working From Home: 

People have so much more free time now by working from home, (whether that’s a
good or a bad thing, that's up for your interpretation,) either they are out of work, or
they don’t have to take long commutes to get to work anymore, or for any other reason.
People can use this free time however they want, if they want to be productive, they
can, if they don’t want to, they can’t also do that too. 

I am the type of person who would spend 12 hours in a day on something that piques
my interest, which is good but also very bad at the same time. This means I can
use my free time very well and use it to be very productive, but then I have my bed,
and the bed is very dangerous. 

Most people probably understand what this means… sleep or lying around all day
as dead as a log scrolling through your instagram feed all day. 

If I can’t find my motivation to drag myself out of bed, it would be really hard for me
to be productive unless there is some pressing issue that needs to be immediately
fixed. Even though I absolutely despise the commute to and from school each day of
the week, I can’t help but to miss the feeling of being in school a lot. 
Especially when you have to share your cramped living quarters with many others and
everywhere and everything you see is associated with “comfort.” Thus, making you
less willing to do anything, and it drives me nuts. 

But then once I get into focus mode, everything just falls into place easier. 

My Two-Cents:
Right now, the United States is leading in world coronavirus cases. Currently, there are

over 164,000 cases in the United States and about 786,000 cases worldwide. A little

under half of all of the US cases are in New York State, and the majority of that is coming

from New York City. There are 3,164 deaths in the US and 37, 814 worldwide, that is scary. 

I feel like if the United States did some more drastic things to avoid community spread
locally, we would have way less people infected than we do now, especially in urban areas.
I feel like the decision to close schools later was a mistake and that should have happened the instant we got our first case in January. 

That way we could avoid the crisis hospitals in other countries like Italy are having.
Despite other people downplaying the virus a lot by comparing it to the flu and other
things, I believed the virus wasn’t going to be like the flu because of my parents who
have contacts with relatives near areas of high infection in China. They’ve been
updating us daily since the end of January about the severity of the virus so, I guess
this is the reason why I have such beliefs. 

As a result, I started limiting my activities in places other than school. My parents
started
stock up on food early and did other things to prepare for the worst. 

No one wants permanent lung scarring if they can avoid it right?