reflection

Patrick Tate Greuling

Period 3

Ms. York

Reflection

What happened in the gym with the convicts and hearing their stories, their struggles with alcohol, drugs, and sex really got to me. To hear how much pain they went through to learn their lesson on how bad drugs can affect their lives was touching. Looking through y high school career I feel proud that I haven’t experimented with drugs. What impacted me the most was the 19 year old. How young and close to my own age is what really impacted me to keep on with my straight arrow life and really believe in what I’m not doing even though other things might be the “cool thing” to do. This is really a lie because most of the people I know don’t do drugs, which is something I am also proud of. I pride myself in surrounding myself with people who believe the same things as I do. It all the moods of that mourning one thing I could have dealt without was the interpretive dance. The dance was a little too not serious in the fact that they had to tell everyone not to laugh for it. I feel as if the we had more time to hear all of the stories from all the convicts would have been more emotional. But listening to how bad jail is with all the violence and the gangs really hit a note with a lot of people.