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81 days to give my mom a hug
I never would have imagined that it would take 81 days to give my mom a hug. This is my COVID-19 story. Settling into Geneva With a pounding heart, I gave my mom a last hug in the airport and uprooted myself to Geneva on 27 January. I was heading to my new internship with the UNICEF campaigns team, full of expectations, ready to learn. I thought living in Geneva would be a good ‘trial run’ for living abroad. It was not the first time I was apart from my family; however, it was my first time in another country all alone. Feeling alone The hardest for me was the emotional isolation. I wasn’t...