every 15 minutes a friend dies or is critiaclly injured from an acohol related crash
so starting monday i participated in a program called "every 15 minutes".
it was about drinking and driving and the effects it has. and just drinking in general.
i got to play someone who was pulled from class, there was 22 of us who did that, as if we died and played someone called the living dead.
we walked around school in white face makeup with black under the eyes and on the lips, we weren't aloud to talk or even smile. for one night we weren't aloud to call our parents and we had to stay in a hotel. i know that it doesn't give off the impresion that it gave off to me but it was so surreal. we even do a mock car crash and two people are DOA, one is critically injured and dies in the hospital, and 2 are just ijured badly but still technically live, and then there is a histarical injured student, and the drunk driver who "goes to jail".
it was so emotional. the crash is unscripted and is all suppossed to come from instinct and the students invovled did an AMAZING job. then overnight we stayed in a hotel and did some activites. we saw a slide show from that day. then we played a game about the interesting facts we wrote down about ourselves from meetings before. then we laid down and listened to a script that made us feel dead and then turned around and wrote a goodbye letter as if we were dead to our parents, they wrote one to us that same night.then the next day we had an assembly and we were reunited with our parents and family and friends. it was so surreal just how real it felt. it sure put some things in perspective for me and i'm sure other students, especially those of us who were involved in this progrom, which was 30 altogether.i now know just how stupid drinking is. i don't have anything against people who drink but people who drink and drive i have no respect for. it showed me how much we really all take for granted and that we never really take the time to appreciate what chances and the life we're given. it showed me that teens in general think that the only drama we're ever going to go through is bad relationships, fights with friends, teachers who we think hate us, bad grades, and other small things that that. but then you go through something like this and realize just how trivial these things are.
it was about drinking and driving and the effects it has. and just drinking in general.
i got to play someone who was pulled from class, there was 22 of us who did that, as if we died and played someone called the living dead.
we walked around school in white face makeup with black under the eyes and on the lips, we weren't aloud to talk or even smile. for one night we weren't aloud to call our parents and we had to stay in a hotel. i know that it doesn't give off the impresion that it gave off to me but it was so surreal. we even do a mock car crash and two people are DOA, one is critically injured and dies in the hospital, and 2 are just ijured badly but still technically live, and then there is a histarical injured student, and the drunk driver who "goes to jail".
it was so emotional. the crash is unscripted and is all suppossed to come from instinct and the students invovled did an AMAZING job. then overnight we stayed in a hotel and did some activites. we saw a slide show from that day. then we played a game about the interesting facts we wrote down about ourselves from meetings before. then we laid down and listened to a script that made us feel dead and then turned around and wrote a goodbye letter as if we were dead to our parents, they wrote one to us that same night.then the next day we had an assembly and we were reunited with our parents and family and friends. it was so surreal just how real it felt. it sure put some things in perspective for me and i'm sure other students, especially those of us who were involved in this progrom, which was 30 altogether.i now know just how stupid drinking is. i don't have anything against people who drink but people who drink and drive i have no respect for. it showed me how much we really all take for granted and that we never really take the time to appreciate what chances and the life we're given. it showed me that teens in general think that the only drama we're ever going to go through is bad relationships, fights with friends, teachers who we think hate us, bad grades, and other small things that that. but then you go through something like this and realize just how trivial these things are.