This past Monday was the day many students from Lethbridge College were waiting for-the mock disaster.
Students from Communication Arts, Criminal Justice and Emergency Medical Services were lectured about the mock disaster for many months, getting everyone excited, nervous and prepared for a scenario that they could possibly encounter in the future.
I was one of those students. As excited as I was, I was really looking forward to seeing what it would be like and how I would handle a situation that I heard about happening, but never dreamed of being involved in.
The Sunday before the mock disaster I was feeling under the weather. All I could think about was the Monday and how I needed to get better because I couldn’t miss the mock disaster. Well Monday rolled in and I woke up feeling worse than I did the day before. I hauled myself to school anyways because I could not miss this, even though I felt like death every minute.
As soon as I walked into the classroom I was sent right back home. I not only was mad at myself for being sick, I also felt like I was letting down my classmates. I am the editor for this week’s paper and I never even attended what our main story is focused around.
As I lay there trying to sleep, I heard the sirens going off at the D.A. Electric Barn, where the mock disaster was taking place, and I wished I could have been over there.
The next day I was feeling better and went to school for production. As soon as I walked in the door, my classmates were editing videos, writing cutlines for photos and telling me about their experience with the mock disaster.
I was thrilled because even though I wasn’t there, it felt like I was. I just have to say my classmates did an awesome job on painting the picture of what was happening and I think that they will all do great when we all move on to the big world with full-time hours.