Great anthropological work always included taking field-notes based on daily observations. This assignment will give a short, first-hand experience in conducting your own field research by maintaining your own short-term fieldwork diary.

For this assignment, you will be creating a short, five-consecutive-day diary based on your own experiences of living during the current COVID-19 pandemic.  This assignment will be totally based on your own five days of observations, comments, thoughts, and photos.  Your diary entries will be reflections on daily photos that all revolve around the following question: What do five consecutive days during COVID-19 pandemic look and feel like to you?

Here are the details of the assignment:

Over the course of 5 consecutive days, take one photo each day that represents something meaningful for you on each particular  The photo can depict anything you like, big or small as long as it allows you to reflect on your experiences of covid-19 for that particular day.  For instance, you might take a picture of yourself working on an assignment for a class you are taking, or a picture of the supermarket you go to in order to get groceries, or the dinner you prepare, or of the masks you have to wear when venturing out. The photo you take is up to you, but you will need to somehow relate your photo back to the topic of covid-19.

Once you have taken your daily photo, please use it to write a reflection on your day as well as give details of the context in which the photo was taken. When was is taken? Where was it taken? What does it depict for you? Why did you decide to take this photo? In short, provide a brief description of why this image is meaningful to you and what it reveals about our experiences on that particular day. Please do keep in mind the overarching question (What does a day in times of COVID-19 look like for you?) when you take your photo and write up your reflection. (Each individual days reflection should be about 200 words).
Please arrange the five days worth of photos and reflections like diary entries in one document. Each days reflection should be about 200 words and can be formatted using bullet points or as a running text, depending on your preferences.