After a difficult year feeling like her home was a cage, Melis Layik has new digs. She is one of a generation of young Australians whose lives are being shaped by Covid
- Read Melis Layik’s first Dreams interrupted diary
- Read how the pandemic-fuelled recession will affect Australia’s young people
Name: Melis Layik
Age: 21
I sit in my new apartment encircled by cardboard boxes, looking at the remnants of tape and bubble wrap strewn across the carpet. I’ve moved house since I last wrote a few weeks ago. I have a table but no chairs. The box of miscellaneous oddities, teeming with craft projects, which I swear I’ll finish some day, is staring me down. It’s a mess, but it signifies a new start. As I look around my glorious heap of knick-knacks, drinking coffee from a cereal bowl, I feel a sense of comfort and ease that I haven’t had in my home for a while.
Continue reading…After a difficult year feeling like her home was a cage, Melis Layik has new digs. She is one of a generation of young Australians whose lives are being shaped by CovidRead Melis Layik’s first Dreams interrupted diaryRead how the pandemic-fuelled recession will affect Australia’s young peopleName: Melis LayikAge: 21I sit in my new apartment encircled by cardboard boxes, looking at the remnants of tape and bubble wrap strewn across the carpet. I’ve moved house since I last wrote a few weeks ago. I have a table but no chairs. The box of miscellaneous oddities, teeming with craft projects, which I swear I’ll finish some day, is staring me down. It’s a mess, but it signifies a new start. As I look around my glorious heap of knick-knacks, drinking coffee from a cereal bowl, I feel a sense of comfort and ease that I haven’t had in my home for a while. Continue reading…