[A]PART

Shinyi Kang & Logaine Elshafie
April 2020

It was a fine day of April.

One was in Egypt and the other in Korea.

As one passed time by building legos,
the other learned how to cook from her mother.

While one was enjoying her self-cooked lunch with her mother,
the other savoured a warm dinner with her family members.

Afterwards, one opened her books to start studying for her midterm, whereas the other was finishing her work for the day.

Eventually, the two found a way to cross physical barriers and connect.

One is Logaine Elshafie, a freshman hailing from Cairo, Egypt, and the other is Shinyi (Amy) Kang, a Korean sophomore who lives on Jeju Island. Both one and the other attend New York University Abu Dhabi.

In the midst of the 2020 coronavirus pandemic, we abruptly returned to our own countries, leaving what we consider to be our second home: Abu Dhabi.

As of April 2020, we now live completely separate lives, being 8,656 km and 7 hours apart from each other. However, we still take the same class and can communicate with each other via the internet. Us being physically [a]part doesn't mean that we are no longer [a] part of NYU Abu Dhabi.

This is what our [A]PART project, which aurally documents each of our lives at different points in Gulf Standard Time, aims to show.