As many of you may already know, recently (Monday, April 12, 2010) the wall to my school auditorium fell out and destroyed the ceilings in some of the classrooms beneath it. School has been out since then and I have been home left to think about my future. When I first heard about it, I was at work, which is inside the school building, and one of the night janitors came in the office and told one of my supervisors that there was an 'explosion' in the school. Many of us was thinking that a pipe burst and the school was flooded. Man we were fooled like hell. Then a security guard, who didn't have his facts straight, said that the roof of the auditorium caved in. My EXACT thought was; "How cool would it be to see that huge hole in the ceiling?" Yes, I have weird interests in broken buildings. Now it's stuck in both my head and my friends' head. All we could think about was either work, our stuff in our lockers and so on.
Now I got home and was wondering how bad this damage was. So finally in the middle of the night my mom wakes me up and tells me to come watch the news. Channel 12 was showing the clip again. From that moment I nearly cried because right then and there I knew that I almost died Monday. My AP Bio class, along with many others, walked right under that auditorium for a fire drill a few hours before the wall collapsed. I know you're probably thinking that I'm over reacting but that day I knew something wasn't right and my friends thought I was just having those monthly mood swings. My spirit was OFF that entire day. Then yesterday, as my friend was driving on the highway next to the school, I saw the wall and it seemed like a damn dream! These things seem so surreal once it happens to you.
Now three days later and I'm waiting to go to this meeting in two hours. It's to determine whether we split up the high school into two other high schools in Mount Vernon or make up go back there to that unsafe building. If we do get split up they better do it by grades or I'm going to be depressed. Being separated from my friends now would crush my spirit. Now matter how long I've known them, many of us have a bond that is special, especially to me. Now we're graduating from each other, in a weird kind of way. All we can do is pray that they work something out that'll make EVERYONE happy. :'( Us seniors may suffer the most from this thing...smh. What do you have to say about this?
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