When the world is locked down and you canât play with your friends, whatâs a future Boxer to do?
If youâre 9-year-old Ken Kawaguchi of Beaverton, you make to illustrate how the world has changed because of efforts to slow the spread of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. And, also if youâre Ken, your video even snags the attention of KPTV-TV in Portland, which aired a segment about it this week.
Ken is the son of Jon Kawaguchi â88, who graduated from Pacific with a bachelorâs degree in biology. The video trailer stars Ken and his 12-year-old sister Natalie coping with social distancing and dwindling household supplies and toiletries. Their uncle Brian, and Kuma, one of their two dogs, also make appearances.
âIn a world where cleaning supplies are everything,â the video notes ominously.
Real life in the Kawaguchi home isnât that different from the way itâs depicted in the video. Jon is a public health supervisor for Washington County, Ore., a position thatâs keeping him in the line of duty at work. His wife, Angie, and the kids are cooped up in their Beaverton home.
But via multimedia, theyâre finding ways to communicate with the wider world.