{"id":4514,"date":"2021-10-04T16:39:38","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T21:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/?p=4514"},"modified":"2021-11-16T16:21:26","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T22:21:26","slug":"the-pandemic-from-an-international-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/04\/the-pandemic-from-an-international-view\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pandemic from an International View"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20211004_151623-464x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4515\" width=\"464\" height=\"1024\"\/><figcaption>Photo by Carla Landaverde \/ Vaquero Radio<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/FINALCOVID-Int.-Studs._mixdown.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">UTRGV International Students Abbas Ali, Ashrafuzzaman Nazim and Lea Karren shared their experiences during the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ali, Nazim and Karren experienced lockdowns and COVID-19 regulations in their home country. Now, they\u2019re living in the pandemic in America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mass Communication sophomore and tennis athlete Karren is from Pont l\u2019Abb\u00e9, a city on the west coast of France. She moved to the U.S. to pursue a student-athlete career and has become the first of her family to do a four-year education in America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her tennis career enabled her to become an independent woman.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Karren was in France when the pandemic hit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-background\" style=\"background-color:#f27508\">\u201cIt was just like, even getting groceries, it was only one person was able to get groceries, and everybody had to stay home, we couldn\u2019t go out in our street, we couldn\u2019t do nothing, then, the cops were looking at us, and make sure we were respecting the rules, that was, end of Feb to July.\u201d<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Karren decided to continue her career in America by enrolling at UTRGV in August 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amidst the pandemic, Karren has grown closer to her tennis team and gained a new outlook on life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-background\" style=\"background-color:#f27508\">\u201cNow I have more, like the mindset of living day by day, and like, give your 100% everyday and you will see what happen[s]&#8230; So, I feel like, I\u2019m more on that mindset, more grateful, of course, grateful. I think that\u2019s like the most important thing that happened to me with the pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Civil Engineering graduate student Abbas Ali and Disaster Studies graduate student Ashrafuzzaman Nazim are from Dhaka, Bangladesh. According to Nazim, the city is home to 30 million people. This made it difficult to social distance according to Ali.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ali and Nazim were accepted to UTRGV before COVID-19, but the pandemic deferred their enrollment to Spring 2021.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nazim shared his view of Bangladesh and America in the pandemic.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-background\" style=\"background-color:#f27508\">\u201cIn Bangladesh, it\u2019s one of the crowded country, it\u2019s not like double up like U.S.A&#8230;.there\u2019s like 15 or like 10 million people more or less, they\u2019re low-income. They had to go out to maintain their, to survive their family, they\u2019re deliverer, taxi-driver, daily worker. 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