A Year in Review: Learning to Cope and Grow with Constant Uphill Battles
The past year has been a whirlwind of emotions and disasters.
The past year has been a whirlwind of emotions and disasters.
Forced gender identity has destroyed entire towns, burned down homes and businesses, and taken the lives of several people.
The night of September 7th, I sat playing video games on my PS4, totally unaware that I would be woken up in just three hours and told we had fifteen minutes to pack up and leave.
There are more than 2,000 fires burning in California alone and more fires in Washington, Oregon, and Colorado, in addition to two category four hurricanes in two different regions of the US in a span of three months. This year at Pacific University, there are freshmen who are exploring their first year of college during all this chaos.
While the year had already brought unprecedented events with the ongoing spread of COVID-19 in the United States and around the world, the state of Oregon is now facing another disastrous event with widespread wildfires sweeping across the state in what Governor Kate Brown says may be the greatest loss of property and human life in the state’s history.