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What I Miss

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During this time with COVID-19 the things I miss most are: Hanging out with my friends, Seeing my grandma,  Playing Ultimate Frisbee in the park,  Going to school,  Singing in the choir at school,  Making food with my unit in foods 10 Swimming in the pool,  Going bowling,  Playing golf,  Going up to our cabin up at Roche Lake,  Throwing the football with friends in the park,  Seeing my friends dog, seeing my whole family, Going to my hip/hop class in person,  Going to a restaurant,  Going to Starbucks for a green tea latte What I really miss is my freedom!

Ultimate Frisbee

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One of my hobbies is Ultimate Frisbee. I have been doing it for a long time as I started in grade six. I worked really hard at it and our team went and did some competitions against other schools. My old schools team was called the FrisBears. We had to learn different types of ways to throw the Frisbee, you need to know how to throw with your backhand and your forhand and there is a specific position you have to be in. You can not travel with the disc because if you do then it is the other teams disc. Before the game starts you also got to pick who is your check which means you are picking who you are going to be on defence against the other teams players. I went to see the team called the Vancouver Riptide and I got a signature on my frisbee disc from the player number 29. I went and saw the games at Swan Gard Stadium in Burnaby in 2016. Ultimate Frisbee was developed by a group of students in 1968 at Columbia High School in Maplewood New Jersey. If you want to know more about Ultimat...

A Company Changes due to the COVID-19 Pandemic

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My post today is about how a company has changed during the COVID-19 Pandemic. My aunt Marilyn owns a chain of ten retail clothing stores in B.C. She designes clothing out of wool, Bamboo and other products. When ordered by the government she had to close down all her stores because of the COVID-19, she had to lay off most of her staff and rely on online sales only. She got an idea and decided to make non medical fashion masks and gloves for sale. Marilyn thought that having regular masks made people look like geeks but wearing her fashion non medical masks would be more interesting and people would buy them online. Her idea was easy but getting the gloves and the masks to sell was tough. She had to: Design the masks and gloves Arrange with the sewers to make the masks and gloves Had to arrange shipment to her warehouse Changed her website Email all her customers about the new masks and gloves Marilyn said that " It was a lot of work, but she is proud about the finishe...
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