A resident of Mitchell is currently stuck in South Korea. 

Shae-Lynn Giesbrecht says she has been attending a bible course while living with her sister in Seoul since early January. She notes in Korea, COVID-19 related shut-downs began to take effect in early February with stricter stay-at-home protocols following shortly after. She says she had arranged to leave for Canada on April 7th, however, that all changed when her mom reached out to the airline the day before the flight. 

"She messaged me late at night before my flight and then she was like, your flight is cancelled. I am immediately thinking ‘oh no! What do I do now? I want to leave.’ She talked with the airline to try and figure it out and they had no idea why I didn’t receive any notice because I should have received some kind of cancellation notice."

Giesbrecht says the airline was apologetic and worked with her mom to book another the earliest available flight home. She now plans to return to Manitoba on May 1st.

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Though this has not been easy, Giesbrecht says she has been getting through. 

"The first night I was very upset but I have been dealing with it actually pretty good. I feel like I am doing a lot better than I was thinking I would but it helps that I am still with my sister and I am still able to stay in this apartment so I can continue what I have been doing for the last month with the whole COVID-19 crisis."

Much like in Manitoba, Giesbrecht says restrictions are quite tight but not entirely prohibitive. 

"We are mostly trying to just walk around our area to get out in the fresh air because we are still being encouraged not to go out and meet people as much as possible. If you can stay inside, stay inside, but it is not like we are completely confined to our room."