[Tutor] What exactly does "await" do?

[Alphonsus Okoye]

Given below is a part of the python offline doc 3.10: Language reference,
section 6.4

> Suspend the execution of coroutine on an awaitable object. Can only be
> used inside a coroutine function.
> *await_expr* ::= "await" primary
> New in version 3.5.


Here is another part of the same doc on "Coroutines and tasks"

> To actually run a coroutine, asyncio provides three main mechanisms:
>
>    -
>
>    Awaiting on a coroutine. The following snippet of code will print
>    “hello” after waiting for 1 second, and then print “world” after waiting
>    for *another* 2 seconds:
>
>    import asyncioimport time
>    async def say_after(delay, what):
>        await asyncio.sleep(delay)
>        print(what)
>    async def main():
>        print(f"started at {time.strftime('%X')}")
>
>        await say_after(1, 'hello')
>        await say_after(2, 'world')
>
>        print(f"finished at {time.strftime('%X')}")
>    asyncio.run(main())    ...
>
>
>  Aren't those two statements contradictory? How does the await
statement suspend the execution of a coroutine and still run the coroutine?
I know I am missing some fundamentals here. How do I make sense of this?