Hey, blogettes! Today was a really weird day put to an end by a power outage, but I will talk about that later on in this post. First off, I must apologize for not writing on here for almost a month. You must have been wondering if I was still alive, well, here I am writing this alive and well. Another PSA, this post is dedicated to the victims of the bombings at the Boston Marathon a couple of days ago. Please know that you are in my thoughts and prayers, and that I am going to run three miles in silence in honor of the three innocent victims that were killed in these attacks. May God bless Boston greatly, and protect them from even more deaths. I would also like to send a shout out to one of my friends because it is her birthday today, so I would just like to say happy birthday, and I am really looking forward to spending time together this weekend.
Now, let's get to how odd today was. There was a fire drill at nine o' clock, so we all had to exit the building and into the pouring rain, and thunder. It turns out that the drill was just a false alarm because they were taking down the wall in the wrestling room and that wall has a lever that you can pull and it will activate the fire alarm. It was really scary, and the teachers didn't know about it so they thought it was real at first, too. Things were normal as they can get with a full on thunder storm for about an hour and then the power started to flicker.
The power went out at the end of my lunch hour at school, like at about 11:15 and was out for about an hour before they decided to have an early out. It was kind of nerve racking because the hallways and restrooms were very dark, and that made doing simple things such as going to your locker or using the restroom or passing classes hard. The clocks were electric so we had no clue what time it really was unless we used our laptops to figure that out, and most people were afraid to do that because it might have meant that their battery could die and if we weren't getting out early they would be out of a laptop all day long.
We had two hours of make shift classes, and those were mainly spent with people going in groups to either use the restroom with someone who had an Ipod or a phone that they were willing to use as a flashlight, or go to their lockers to get homework, or a sweatshirt as the rooms were quickly becoming colder. It was really interesting because my Ipod had been turned into a navigation tool. While in the lunchroom, I used it to text my mom and tell her that we might get out early because the power had gone out. She asked if I was okay, and I said that I was fine, just a little overwhelmed by the lots of teachers yelling at their students to tell them where to go over the wails of the frightened kids, and the shouts of joy from the children that just wanted to get out of school.
I said that the teachers were coming to guide us back to class, and get us out of the lunchroom. I told her that I still had lunch left, but that was fine, and I wouldn't worry about it because I had ate something. I was trying to remain calm, but really I was just like everyone else. I was nervous, and lost because the power had never gone out at school for that long before. It was an adventure with the people who couldn't do steps, but we got creative. We did chairs for the people on crutches, we let some people crab crawl up the steps, and for the boy that is in one of my classes that is in a wheelchair we had him pop a wheelie so that he could be brought up the steps also.
It was really chaotic there for a few minutes but once things got settled, it was really like a normal day except for there were no lights.
The good news is that since we didn't start dismissing students until like 12:50 this afternoon, we can count today as a day even though we really didn't spend that much time in our academic studies. Band wasn't even normal, we played music bingo in that class, and that was right before we were dismissed. I had to go on a wild goose chase around the school to find my sister, and I almost fell down the steps. I was really scared on my second lap around the school because I thought she had forgotten about me, and I was going to have to walk home alone in this rain storm. Lucky for me, she waited and we walked home together. It would have been easier to find her if I had a phone, but I haven't been lucky enough to get one just yet. My mom says that my Ipod does the trick when half of the time the texting app doesn't even work on it.