Sabrina Fong

Sabrina Fong, daughter of Sheraton New York employee Kim L. Fong, also wrote about how the pandemic has affected us. Sabrina, who also won a writing contest award last year, expressed in her essay regret about all the great things she missed out on due to school closure. But she looked at the other side of the issue as well, saying, "Typing away in this essay all the feelings I had bottled up I feel almost selfish and embarrassed because I know that the loneliness and isolation I experienced over the peak months of the pandemic are incomparable to the grief and struggles many others have faced, whether it be from losing loved ones or having to navigate through unemployment for the first time." An excellent writer, Sabrina concluded by saying, " As more and more inoculations take place I have faith there will soon come a time when we can all gather together like we used to and see the events of the past year as nothing more than a stepping stone to becoming a stronger collective society." We hope Sabrina is right about that! Sabrina won $1,000 for her poignant essay.