The 15 minute program.

Blog 96.

So on tuesday, practice for pep band was canceled due to some unknown thing i didnt know about. I got curious so i asked jacob, our so-called-leader-of-some sort, what was up. at first he didnt reply so i asked taylor, a friend of mine.

taylor started going on about the 15 minute program and about how intense it was. after taylor told me stuff, jacob finally replied and his explanation of the program was like...omg.

on tuesday and wednesday, foothill had this program/assembly/thing. it was called the 15 minute program. during the whole school day a random student was taken out of a random classroom every fifteen minutes. there were also apparently heartbeats over the intercom every 15 minutes too. anyways, those people represented each person who have/has died or been seriously/critically injured in an accident related to drunk driving.

btw, those students were taken elsewhere and were restricted from communicating with anyone for 48 hours. our percussionist/drummer was one of those people. thats why we didnt have practice.

sometime during the day, they had an assembly. the 15 minute program people acted out a scene that depicted what can happen in an accident related to drunk driving. here's how it went:

the 15 minute program choose 4 seniors to act out in the thing. one was the drunk driver, the others..well i'll explain what happened to them later.

this was all in the stadium of foothill.

one of the seniors, named lisa, decided that it was okay to drive drunk so she drove herself and another person home or something like that, his name was dustin or richard or marissa. i dont remember. so she's driving and she crashes into another car with, im just going to say, marissa and richard.

as they collided, dustin was thrown through the front window thing, since he wasn't wearing a seat belt, and died immediatly upon contact with whatever he hit. marissa and richard were seriously injured leaving lisa with only a scratch on her forehead.

now, this is what the 15-minute program actually acted out.
richard was crying out for help. i dont remember what marissa did but i think she was stuck in the car or something, i dunno. lisa was, i believe, in the driver's seat and dustin was wherever he was dead.

there was also lots of blood.

the CHPs, ambulance, paramedics, you name it, came to the rescue. they like actually came. they also brought a real helicopter, which landed in the stadium and air lifted marissa out of there.

after that whole thing, they, i guess, explained that richard was paralyzed from, i believe, the waist down, dustin was dead, marissa died right when she reached the hospital due to internal bleeding and lisa was sentenced to life in prison with her little scratch on her head.

then they had testimonies of people who survived accidents like that. and asked the students of foothill to, if they wanted to, make a pledge of something like: ' i deserve to live and i will not die.'

it was truly touching to the students. i heard that there were alot of people who cried and made that pledge.

but what made it more affective was the fact that the 15 minute program used actual students of foothill, that way the students would be able to connect to the program.

i wish i was there to see and experience the program. i actually knew two of the students who were acting.




don't drink and drive guys; you will regret it.